eBuddy (News - Alert), the world's topmost independent web and mobile instant messaging (IM) aggregator service, has announced that in less than three months, eBuddy Mobile Messenger has crossed one million downloads on Nokia's (News - Alert) Ovi Store. Users spread in more than 203 countries have downloaded the mobile Messenger. eBuddy Mobile Messenger is considered one of the most well-liked free mobile applications in the Nokia Ovi Store; it works on almost all the Nokia mobile devices.

One of world's most popular mobile instant messaging applications, eBuddy can enable millions of global users to chat at no cost in a single, aggregated interface across all major IM networks like AIM, Facebook (News - Alert) Chat, Google Talk, Hyves, ICQ, MySpace, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger.

Marco Argenti, vice president and global head of media at Nokia, says that as Ovi Store continues to grow, most of the publishers are seeing their apps reach a million downloads faster. He added that eBuddy is the latest developer to have utilized Ovi Store's global reach, and touching more than a million-mark.

Jan Joost (News - Alert) "JJ" Rueb, CEO and co-founder of eBuddy says that distributing eBuddy Mobile Messenger via Nokia's Ovi Store has allowed them to expand the popularity of eBuddy directly to Nokia users' globally and it also plays an important role in enabling them to reach 95 percent of the global handset market.

eBuddy's mobile applications has been downloaded over 75 million times, and it is accessed by more than 15 million exclusive mobile users to send more than 7.5 billion messages each month. This makes eBuddy number one in the mobile instant messaging sector.

eBuddy is the world's fastest growing mobile IM applications offering four, free mobile IM versions, which are eBuddy for iPhone and iPod Touch, eBuddy for Android (News - Alert), eBuddy Mobile Messenger (J2ME) and eBuddy Lite Messenger (mobile Web). Mobile Internet data connection is used by the eBuddy mobile application over other networks like 3G, 2G or Wi-Fi. eBuddy, a private limited company was founded in the year 2003 and is based out of Amsterdam, London and San Francisco. The company is primarily backed by Prime Technology Ventures and Lowland Capital Partners.