So if somebody is trying to find the password reminder link on the MXit home page, then this is the one you are looking for. This is great for users in countries that don’t have SMS/TXT password recovery mechanisms.

Download it from
www.mxit.com/mxitpc

MXit on PC with the phone emulator is still handy though – as you get to see the real original MXit version for your mobile on your PC! And you can understand what it would feel like to have it on your phone!

But for those who don’t have a phone – the new official MXit PC will provide you the fun you are looking for!

A new version (5.4.1) of the MXit mobile client has been released.

This is a bugfix release that does not add new functionality.

The following bugs have been fixed:

1. File send (upload) speed has been improved significantly.
2. Minimum PIN length when registering has been changed to 7 digits.
3. The Alerts profiles have been extended so that markup and vibes can be enabled / disable on a per profile case. This would allow people to protect themselves from getting spammed with vibes in e.g. chatrooms by for example putting all the chatrooms in a group, disabling vibes and markup for a specific profile (e.g. silent), and assigning that profile to the group
4. Popup menu now displays items correctly in all cases (previously it was sometimes incorrectly scrolled down when shown for the first time)
5. Indonesian language support has been added.
6. The default progress icon has been updated a bit (has MXit text inside)
7. Sony Ericsson K700 and Motorola V360, V3 and V3i versions have been updated so that they use less memory. The default skin that is used for those version has also been simplified.
8. Fixed the issue with custom emoticon packs going missing (when deleting pack and adding new one)
9. Voice recorder for Nokia 6233 (and other Series 40 3rd Ed SP1 & SP2 phones now works correctly)
10. Samsung U700: Pressing left arrow in Name field of save messages screen does not freeze app anymore.
11. Skins with names that are longer than 23 characters can now be activated (again).
12. Camera is now disabled for Nokia E60 (since E60 does not have camera support)
13. Stylus support is now enabled for all v5.4 handsets
14. Save messages (to gallery) feature has been improved: big messages are now saved correctly and color markup (#RRGGBB) is not saved unnecessarily anymore.

Greetings Communicators,

Guys, and some girls, have we got some news for you…

The MXit_Team is bringing you Lee-Ann Liebenberg.

Yup, that is right!

You will have the chance to chat with Lee-Ann on Thursday afternoon 13th December 2007 from 4pm – 6pm.

You will find Lee-Ann in the Celebrity Zone in her very own room.

See you there…

Regards,
MXit_Team

Some of Lee-Ann’s “achievements”

-FHM magazine’s Sexiest Woman 2005

-YOU/HUISGENOOT award winner SEXIEST WOMAN 2005

-KIDS CHOICE award winner SEXIEST WOMAN 2005/2006

-PEOPLE Magazine CRYSTAL Award winner SEXIEST WOMAN 2006

-YOU/HUISGENOOT magazine’s 2006 “SIREN OF THE YEAR”

-CRYSTAL AWARD winner SEXIEST WOMAN 2007

-YOU MAGAZINE AWARD winner SEXIEST WOMAN 2007

-HEAT magazine’s HEAT HOT 100 voted HOTTEST FEMALE CELEBRITY 2007

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1) Get MXit from www.mxit.co.za/wap OR wap.mxit.co.za OR wap.mxit.com on your phone.
2) Talk to the Tradepost contact once you are in the MXit program on your phone!

You read it here first!

So go and get it at www.mxit.co.za/wap on your phone now!

MXit – the Ultimate Chat for your phone!

MXit Lifestyle brings you MXit V5.4

Version 5.4 Features

1. Select Contact For Content

From Tradepost or Gallery you can now select content e.g. wallpapers, mood cards, etc., which can be sent directly to your contacts. So easy or what!

2. Inline Images

Allows small thumbnail images to appear as part of the text conversations.

3. Audio Recording

The ability to record audio snippets up to 60 seconds, that can be sent as files to your contacts. Now we’re talking!

4. Emoticon Packs

This feature allows for the downloading and transfer of emoticon packs which can be sent to your MXit friends. Share the love!

5. MXit Vibes

You know have the ability to send vibes to your contacts which will prompt their mobile phone to vibrate. Rad or what! Vibes can be played even if their message alert vibration is switched off. However, the disable vibe prompt, allows you to toggle between switching your vibes off and on.

6. Scroll To Unread Message

For your convenience, when opening a contact screen, this feature will ensure that the conversation scrolls to the first unread message.

7. Transfer Files In The Background

Sending and receiving skinz, cards, images and audio files is now done in the background by displaying a progress bar within the conversation screen itself.

8. Emoticon Screen Heading

Added a heading for the emoticon screen that has a one word describing your emoticon image i.e. Excited, Happy, etc.

9. Invite Improvements

When a MXit user adds a contact, you can now include an invitation message, to be viewed by the Mxiteer receiving the invite.

10. Alert Profiles

Updated the alert system so that each set of alerts is grouped in a profile, either as General, Meeting or Silent. A profile can then be assigned to apply to an entire group, or to a single contact. You can also select a custom sound, from the mobile phones memory or file system to be used as an alert – if your mobile supports file access.

11. MXit Markup (Format text)

Now you can format your text message with bold, underline, italics and creating your own selectable link. Makes it so much easier to get your point across.

12. Scalable Vector Graphics File Support

Added support to play scalable vector graphics. What is SVG? It’s an XML specification and file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics.

14. Phone support for V5.4

Due to the large number of features that have been added for this release, support has been dropped for a number of older and low end mobile phones.

Therefore V5.4 will only be supported on the following handsets:

LG

KG920 KE970 KE850 KE600

Nokia

3230 3250 6234 6270 6280 6630 6670 6680 7610 6620 N90 N70 9500 9300

6260 6600 6230i 9300i 6111 6233 7380 E60 E61 E70 N71 N80 N91 5200

5300 5500 6085 6125 6131 6136 6151 6288 7373 7390 8800 E50 E62 N93

N95 N72 N73 6133 6300 6086 6290 N76 N75 N77 E65 8600 5700 3110 6110 6110 Navigator

Benq-Siemens

M65 CX65 S65 SK65 CFX65 SL65 EL71 EF81 S88

Sony Ericsson

K700 K800 P900 P910i V600i K600 K750 D750i W800 Z1010 Z520 W550 K300 F500 S700

K500 K510 W300 K750 W900 W810 V800 Z800 K610 M600i P990i V630 W850 Z610 K320i

K550i K810 W880 K790 Z710 Z550 W710 K618 Z558 W610 W830 P990 W580 W660 W200i

Motorola

V300 V360 V400 V500 V550 V600 V620 V80 V1050 K1 V6 PEBL SLVR V635 V3 V3i E1000

V360v RAZR Z3 V547 E770v V980 V535 ROKR ROKR V3xx KRZR W510 SLVR RIZR ROKR

Samsung

D820 D830 D600 E250 ZV10 ZV30 E530 Z500 Z540 E720 E860 S100 P850 X820 Z140 Z400

D900 E900 I320 I750 Z560 ZV40 ZV50 E830 U600 U700 P910

I-mate

SP3i JAM K-JAM JASJAR JASJAM PDA2k JAMA PDAL

HTC

s310 S620 S710 MTeoR P3300 P3400 P4350 TyTN

If your mobile does not support V5.4, continue with prompts to download previous version.

Regards,

MXit_Team

AND MORE OTHER PHONES! Check the wap site for details: wap.mxit.co.za

Freshly mixed – Freshlyground goes live on MXit

Issued by: MXit

Instant messaging service MXit will offer South Africans an opportunity to chat directly with members of MTV European Awards favourite Freshlyground, in two 45 minute sessions on Tuesday 30th October at 4pm.

Last month local band Freshlyground released their latest album Ma’Cheri featuring their single “Potbelly” as a chart topper on 5FM’s World Chart show hosted by Nicole Fox.

“We will be chatting about our inspiration for Ma’Cheri and Potbelly’s lyrics ‘fat thighs, flabby arms and pot belly’ – something everyone is curious about!” says Zolani Mahola, Freshlyground’s lead vocalist. “We will also chat about our upcoming nationwide tour due to start on the 2nd of November in Cape Town and, on a more serious side, our experience with social networking online.”

“Celebrity Chat is a fun way for fans to get in touch directly with their favourite stars while at the same time experience the need to chat safely online. Chat room usage and instant messaging (IM) is a popular means for people to meet and stay in touch. With this there is a need to maintain responsible use: not disclose your personal details, avoid profanity and not meet online contacts in real life. We believe Freshlyground would be best to chat about this, based on their personal experience using messaging as a way to stay in touch”, says Paul Stemmet, general manager of MXit Lifestyle.

Now five years old Freshlyground is a seven member band of Mozambican, Zimbabwean and South African origins, with music that is a fusion of African flavour and classical percussion. Not defined by one genre, Freshlyground’s music combines elements of Folk, Afropop, Jazz and Indie Rock. Critics have described Freshlyground as “passionate” and “red hot” with “an honesty and depth in their lyrics”.

“Music and technology go hand-in-hand today and most youths see services such as MXit as their social lifeblood, so it’s a fantastic and direct route to our fans”, says Mahola.

Based on MXit’s need to offer their 5,3 million users a safer and moderated chat facility, Dynamic Chat Zones were introduced earlier this year. “Even with these features there remains a need to keep our safety messages fresh and MXit users are constantly reminded to never share personal information and to not meet online friends in real life”, says Stemmet.

This fourth Celebrity Chat session coincides with the recent addition of three new languages available on MXit – Xhosa, isiZulu and Afrikaans. Between the band members Zolani, Simon, Peter, Kyla, “Gugs”, Josh and Aron all the main local languages are all covered and users can chat in their language of choice.

To join the Freshlyground chat download the latest version of MXit by visiting www.mxit.co.za/wap. Follow the step-by-step registration guide and add ‘celebritychat’ as a contact from Tradepost and look out for the ‘Freshlyground Chat room’.

• Afrikaans – South African language.
• German (Dutch/Deutsch)
• English
• Spanish (Español)
• French (Français)
• Italian (Italiano)
• Portuguese (Português, Brazilian and European)
• Xhosa (isiXhosa) – South African african language
• Zulu (isiZulu) – South African african language

This will help if someone isn’t familiar with English language words on their mobile and are struggling to get MXit to chat with!
Afrikaans, Zulu and Xhosa are three other official languages spoken in South Africa, the country of creation of MXit.

I agree with the statements that the market for Xhosa and Zulu speakers is quite big in South Africa, as I experience a lot of feedback on my mobile wap site (wap.defza.com) from native South African language speakers! And it’s quite an exciting new market.

Check out this for a quick language primer
At a time when MXit has reached 5.4 million users, there’s still much more potential left in the company from South Africa. At a solid 10-12K new registrations per day.

Visit www.mxit.com/wap to get MXit in your language now!

woke today and watched the sun rise, chatted to a guy but never saw his eyes
strangest thing what life has become, mxit’s controlling it in some
bonded now across valleys and oceans, mxit has bound us by only emotions
not a smile do we see or a hand do we touch, and yet of each we learn so much
has life become such that we need not have touch
we need not hear voices or genuine laughter, what is it actually we are all after
we treasure the friends we have not yet met,and the ones around us we seem to forget
we mxit from morning into the night, and never stop to wonder is mxit so right

- by luvkitten

It says: use it wisely, and don’t forget your real friends!

Mxit just reached the 5 million users mark! (Wed, Aug 15, 2007)

Some MXit Facts

• About nine million log-ons per day.
• Over 200 million messages sent per day.
• Between eight and 12 thousand new registrations per day.

In the last 24 hours, MXit has added just over 1,000 new international users!

* MXit is a free mobile instant messaging solution
* The service provides low cost text based communication to mobile users

* 200 million messages are sent per day

* The application is downloaded to the user’s cell phone free of charge. The user is then able to send and receive short text messages over the Internet at a very low cost, on both cell phones and personal computers.
* Swist Group Technologies (Pty) Ltd was formed in 1995 and is a major shareholder of MXit Lifestyle.
* In April 2004, the business unit of MXit Lifestyle (formerly Clockspeed Mobile) was separated from Swist Group to form a new company.
* Naspers acquired a 30% stake in MXit in January 2007.

- SMStextNews.com

And with the release of MXit Version 5.2, and all its new features, these figures are going to explode!

Just verifying that South Africa is the top country in the world
If you need something done, just come here!

Why get Freestyler subscription on MXit?
You can save, send and receive your messages, greetings cards and pictures at no additional cost (beyond operator data costs).

On Thursday, August 16 2007 it will be available to Freestylers first to test out!

New features in 5.2?

Major Features

• International languages – support for more alphabets/characters (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and German)
• Secure/encrypted messages/chat – A new “send encrypted” option.
• Voice Messaging/Chat (VOIP) – almost like “push-to-talk”.

– Not yet!

• Meet Your Gallery – V5.2 allows ALL users to make use of the Gallery. (Previously exclusive to Freestylers)
  Save conversations, files, Skinz and more to your personal Gallery.
  25 items at a max size of 150kb.
• Play Audio Files – on supported phones.
• Broadcast (Group Messaging) – V5.2 allows you to broadcast a message to 10 contacts in a Group for FREE. (Previously exclusive to Freestylers)

- The MXit website (mxit.com) is already translated to some other languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German and Brazilian).

- AE128 content encryption will shortly be standardised on the MXit system (with a view, MXit says, toward creating a foundation for financial transactions).

- The voice/voip: It’s effectively push-to-talk or ‘quasi push to talk’ as MXit describes it. – Not yet, V6 probably~
V5.2 is just a minor’ish update.

Minor Fixes/Additions

• Smooth Scrolling – Hold in up and down, no need to press up/down repeatedly.
• Set your autoaway time. ( 1,2,5,10, or 20 minutes)
• Under settings – login: You can change the connection type: auto/http/socket: half duplex/socket: full-duplex. This is for phones that might have problems connecting.
• A “3 soft button mode” – if you want to use a third shortcut button at the MXit bottom bar. (“Options” and “Back” are “soft keys” when you are talking to a contact.) Having three will give you “Write” as a softkey, for quicker access. As well as other options on other screens in MXit.
• Presence State & Mood In Conversation Screen
• Connectivity Improved
• Max Message Size Changed to 1000 bytes/characters
• Improvements for some phones:

i-Mate / HTC phones do not have much extra java APIs (no file access, no sending of SMS, no access to the camera from within Java), so the extra feature will be the ability to download skins.

• Read more below…

I managed to find the MXit V5.2 beta before it was released, but I’m not a person to break trust, so don’t even ask You will get it soon!

Official changelist

1. Encryption
An option is now available to encrypt user to user messages using 128 AES.
The encryption is performed using a shared password.
When logging in the password is also encrypted.
A further encryption option allows services to communicate with a client using encrypted communication.

2. Meet Your Gallery
V5.2 allows ALL users to make use of the Gallery. (Previously exclusive to Freestylers)
Save conversations, files, Skinz and more to your personal Gallery.

25 items at a max size of 150kb.

3. Play Audio Files
Adds the ability to play audio files from within MXit. Note that this feature is not available to all handsets.
The following file types will be supported for each supported phone category
(The Used column is the percentage of version 5 users that makes use of that particular category)

4. Smooth Scrolling
The ability to scroll through the contacts list and chat screen by holding in an arrow key (instead of having to press it repeatedly).

5. Broadcast (Group Messaging)
V5.2 allows you to broadcast a message to 10 contacts in a Group for FREE. (Previously exclusive to Freestylers)
Multimedia file types are charged at 15 Moola per broadcast.

6. Set Auto Away Timer
The interval that must elapse before the user’s presence is set to away automatically can now be configured in Menu -> Settings -> Presence.

7. Configure Softbutton Mode
The user can now configure whether a middle softbutton action should be available where applicable (default for Nokia handsets).

8. Presence State & Mood In Conversation Screen
Modify the presence state and mood indicators that are shown in the heading bar of the conversation screen to refer to that contact instead of to the user itself.
This will make it easier to see if the mood or presence state of a contact changed, while talking to him/her.

9. Multiple Language Support
Added support for multiple languages. The choice of language is made during the download process.

10. Connectivity Improved
If a connection cannot be made using sockets, the client will fall back to HTTP mode.
Furthermore an option has been added so that the user can select at login time which network connection he would like to use (half-duplex socket, full-duplex socket or HTTP)

11. Max Message Size Changed
The maximum size of a message that can be sent has been reduced to 1000 bytes (from 2048) to save memory.

Bugs fixed:
1. Samsung D900 / E250: Fixed local file system access problems.
2. Samsung D900, Motorola V3X: Fixed file sending.
3. Motorola V3x: Fixed photo capture
4. Nokia S60: Phone camera is now available while MXit is running in the background.
5. Samsung E250: Skins, Local file access now supported.
6. HTC: Skinz now supported
7. Nokia S60 2nd Ed FP 1,2 (including Nokia 6670 and 7610): problems with updating the Profile fixed.
8. Don’t try to login any more if the logout call fails.
9. Fixed file transfers for HTTP version
10. User’s mood is now displayed properly for HTC phones
11. Screen is now updated properly if contact’s mood or presence changes while the contact’s chat screen is open.
12. HTC: Settings are now saved properly in the record store.
13. Invites cannot be moved to a group any more.
14. Up to 5 icons can now be shown in the heading

See the audio supported phone series’ here: forum.mxit.co.za/images/Audio.JPG