But before you start installing it on the computer make sure you meet the system and hardware requirements. And yes, you must have Viber installed on your mobile first to be able to use Viber desktop.

Minimum hardware requirement for desktop computers are: dual core processor, 1 GB RAM, microphone and speakers for voice calls, webcam for video calls, AD2P compatible Bluetooth receiver for BT devices.

Minimum system requirement for desktop computers are:

- for Windows users: Windows XP Service pack 3 and above; Windows Vista; Windows 7 or Windows 8 (RT is not supported);

- for Mac users: OSX 10.7 and above.

If you meet those system and hardware requirements on your desktop computer, make sure you have the following Viber mobile versions prior desktop registration to be able to use Viber desktop:

- Viber 3.0 for Android

- Viber 3.0 for iPhone

- Viber 2.4 for Blackberry

- Viber 2.2.3 for Windows Phone 8 (partly compatible, might encounter sync issues)

- Viber for Windows Phone 7, S40/S60 & Bada: do not require a minimum Viber version (partly compatible, might encounter sync issues).

If both, system and hardware requirements, are fulfilled, you should be done with your installation in few minutes…or less…

Installation procedure

Download installation file. You can download it from Viber’s official site using this link.

After finishing downloading simply drag Viber to your Application folder on the right.

To launch Viber go to your application folder and tap on ‘Viber’. After launching you’ll get Welcome screen. Hit “Yes” to continue.

After hitting “Yes” and you’ll be asked for phone number. Type in your phone number (without the country code) and click ‘Continue’.

type in your phone number(without the country code) and click ‘Continue’.

You will receive an 4 digit access code to your Viber mobile. Type it in.  Read and accept the Viber User License Agreement and click ‘Enter Viber’.

After completing the installation, Viber desktop will automatically sync your contacts with contacts stored in your mobile Viber.

Contacts are automatically synced with your mobile Viber

You’re ready for free communication via Mac!

Enjoy!

But before you start installing it on the computer make sure you meet the system and hardware requirements. And yes, you must have Viber installed on your mobile first to be able to use Viber desktop.

Minimum hardware requirement for desktop computers are: dual core processor, 1 GB RAM, microphone and speakers for voice calls, webcam for video calls, AD2P compatible Bluetooth receiver for BT devices.

Minimum system requirement for desktop computers are:

- for Windows users: Windows XP Service pack 3 and above; Windows Vista; Windows 7 or Windows 8 (RT is not supported);

- for Mac users: OSX 10.7 and above.

If you meet those system and hardware requirements on your desktop computer, make sure you have the following Viber mobile versions prior desktop registration to be able to use Viber desktop:

- Viber 3.0 for Android

- Viber 3.0 for iPhone

- Viber 2.4 for Blackberry

- Viber 2.2.3 for Windows Phone 8 (partly compatible, might encounter sync issues)

- Viber for Windows Phone 7, S40/S60 & Bada: do not require a minimum Viber version (partly compatible, might encounter sync issues).

If both, system and hardware requirements, are fulfilled, you should be done with your installation in few minutes…or less…

Installation procedure
Download installation file on your computer and run it. You can download it from Viber’s official site using this link.

In case you are not the admin on you computer then please ‘right click’ on the file and choose ‘Run as an admin’ where you will be asked to have the admin password.

to start installation, hit “Run”

hit “accept & install”

installation begins…

when installation finish, Viber will launch…

When Viber launches, it prompts a question. Hit “Yes” and you’ll be asked for phone number.

type in your phone number (without the country code) and click ‘Continue’…

You’ll receive a four digit code on your Viber mobile. Type it in. Read and accept the Viber User License Agreement and click ‘Enter Viber’.

hit “Enter Viber” and installation is complete!

After completing the installation, Viber desktop will automatically sync your contacts with contacts stored in your mobile Viber.

Contacts are automatically synced with your mobile Viber

You’re ready for free communication via PC!

Enjoy!

Excellent quality HD voice and video calls, free text and photo messaging, practical group conversations and other typically Viber features are now available to manage from your computer. What is more, no registration, passwords or invitations are required.
In addition to the major desktop breakthrough, Viber has also made some nice updates to its current iOS and Android versions. So, what is new in that department? Viber 3.0 for iOS and Android will now have video messages, improved user interface, as well as enhanced photo experience. Both include new packages of fun stickers and boast major performance improvements. Online status is now available, as well as “Last online” feature. Also, the number of languages that are supported has expanded – Swedish, Turkish, Korean, Dutch, and many more are now part of the increasingly growing Viber community worldwide.
Some enhancements have been made separately. For example, Viber is now designed according to Google’s guidelines for Android apps based on the HOLO theme. In case of iOS, accessibility is one of the newly supported features characteristic for that brand only.
Another big announcement is on its way as well. Viber CEO Talmon Marco says development for Blackberry 10 is in its advanced stages, so the new version will be rolling out pretty soon, leaving us to believe that Viber means some serious business and is heading towards new spheres of success.

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Introducing: Viber desktop

If you want to share a Sticker, just slide to the right (left menu). Scroll down and you’ll find stickers. Use them to make a statement!

If you want to share an Emoticon, slide to the left (right menu). Scroll down and you’ll find pretty cool emoticons! Make your conversations funnier!

Awesome feature, which Viber kept very simple to use, is sending location: if you want to share your current location, just enable it by taping the arrow in the text box. If enabled, your current location will be attached to every outgoing massage.

Another cool feature is sending custom location. For example: if you want to meet your friend or colleague on custom location, use the middle menu button:

Now, to send a custom location, slide the location pin to the place you wish to send and hit ‘Send’.

Viber Media, the leading mobile messaging and VoIP company, has announced the launching of the latest Viber version, which has been widely anticipated. This time it’s all about the Windows Phone 8 version. As is always the case with new Viber releases, this one too is packed with some pretty brilliant features.

Viber had previously launched an application for Windows Phone that didn’t support voice calling. However, the latest issue comes with all of the already familiar advantages supported by other operating systems: free text and photo messaging, free VoIP HD calling and group chat that can gather up to 40 of your friends. You can share photos directly from your device’s photo gallery and location sharing is included as well. Given the fact that Viber is popular and used around the globe, the app typically supports up to 30 different languages.

So, what is new then? As for the new customized look and performance of Viber for Windows Phone 8, both have been enhanced. It actually comes with an interface that has been especially tailored for the latest generation of Windows Phone devices, including a native call screen. One new interesting new feature has been added – now you can pin your conversations to the home screen via tiles (Live Tiles). For conversations that remain unpinned, users will get lock screen notifications.

The redesigned app will now be available on the growing list of Windows 8 devices. In the words of Talmon Marco, Viber CEO: One of our most important goals is supporting multiple platforms, ensuring our users can reach all of their friends and contacts no matter what mobile OS they use. Supporting Windows Phone 8 is a critical part of this strategy.

Well, there you have it folks – free calls and free texts with loads of other cool stuff, now available for WP as well. This is exciting news for the WP ecosystem, however, on this platform, Viber will have to compete with other communication apps like Skype, Facebook etc. Still, this is a huge step forward for the Viber application and it opens new market possibilities. In the end, it’s all about pleasing the users. Viber Media have thus once again confirmed that, in their case, the users come first.

Viber 2.3 is available for both Android and iPhone devices, and it comes just in the right time. As always, new version means 100% new and/or improved features. This time, Viber has focused on fun, fun, fun. The ultimate Viber 2.3 offers you a variety of additional elements to incorporate into your text and photo messages. The most important change in function and appearance is the new slide message menu. Users will now be able to show their moods and emotions while messaging, and do so in a very inventive way. In addition to classic emoticons, the new Viber app includes digital stickers that really make a statement.

Other interesting and useful features include: ”send location” which allows users to share geographic locations, that is, maps; a new and improved user interface, and, only in the Android version, an option to leverage the already existing ringtones and message tones for all communication happening on Viber. Let us not forget new group conversation experience that now supports up to 40 participants, and the fresh new look of Viber on iPhone iOS 5 and 6, including the keypad.

As we move closer and closer to another new year, communications industry is really reaching its full economic potential. In 2012, Viber Media has recorded significant growth, and the trend is expected to continue in the incoming year as well. Since the first launch of this amazing application, Viber creators have paid much attention to continual development and renewal of its features. This Christmas, Viber is being updated to version 2.3, which, obviously, aims at the young adult audience. The latest pack of features highlights the importance of fun and easiness in both call conversations and texting, which will, undoubtedly, appeal to its desired target market.

Every time Viber introduces something new and attractive, it brings it closer to its competition. This time, Viber has clearly set a goal to make it big time, bigger than ever before, in only few years of its existence on the market.

The new version is currently available for Android and iPhone operating systems and boasts multiple new features, ready to be discovered by Viber users. It’s new, it’s fresh and it’s taken to a whole new level. Things to be especially highlighted include: group messaging, multiple user interface improvements and better call quality. Good news is that the beta version for Blackberry has also been updated with the latest text-messaging options.
 
Viber 2.2. brings you a completely different messaging experience. Now Viber users can communicate with up to 16 contacts at once, which is a huge step forward in the world of mobile communications. It will most probably prove very useful among both businesspeople and circles of friends. In order to avoid possible confusion, profile images and display names are constantly shown in the message screen. Together with the release of group messaging, Viber has integrated several smart features into its text messaging platform:
à a smart notification system that limits new message alerts so that users wouldn’t be overwhelmed with every single reply that is added
à text messages incorporating photos and locations
à unique background images for each user, meaning you can have your own background image while group chatting and others who are involved in the conversation can’t see it, as well as changing backgrounds for different chats
 
Another thing that’s more than welcome is an improved call quality due to a HD voice engine, which will certainly be one of the most contributing factors in recruiting new users. Enhancements regarding the Viber interface will also be interesting to people involved in group messaging sessions, as they will be able to share their names and photos with users who are not directly connected with them, that is, users who are not in their own contact list.
 
As for Android users, Viber 2.2. offers them 9 available languages – Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Some more languages are coming soon.
 
Get ready for an entirely new communications experience with Viber 2.2. – the hottest thing this summer.

Previously, Viber was available for iPhone and Android phones, and the new edition boasts almost all the fancy features like its already released versions. Most importantly, there is Viber Messaging, allowing users to exchange text and high-quality photo messages, as well as to share their current locations with other Viber users. There is also instant connection with the device’s interface which makes Viber automatically identify the existing Viber-using contacts on your mobile phone. In this way, you won’t have to ”request” any friendships which is usually the case with classic social networking. Unfortunately, the only missing feature here is the calling option. The full release for both platforms (Blackberry and Windows Phone), including Viber’s signature HD-quality free voice calling, will be released as soon as it meets Viber’s quality standards.

Viber Founder and CEO, Talmon Marco, says the company is consistently guided by the belief that everyone who’s connected to the Internet via their mobile phone, should be able to enjoy a free, high-quality communications experience. By adding BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 to the constantly growing list of interoperable platforms, Viber has additionally strengthened its position on the market as the ultimate messaging app, providing maximum communications experience to millions of users all over the world.

In fact, Viber Media is already holding the leading position among the top mobile communications platforms. Taking into account that it provides 100% free HD quality phone calls, both text and photo messages, no wonder its popularity is increasing on a daily basis. Each month, Viber users spend more than 1 billion minutes on conversations and send over 1 billion messages. With more than 69 million registered iPhone and Android users in 17 months of being on the market, and recruiting more than 200,000 new users per day, Viber definitely justifies the label of being the fastest-growing communications platform and company of today.

2:
When I’m in Spain the dataplan gets really expensive, are there things I need to know about Viber as datatransfere in standby mode and so on.
I have seen somewhere that Viber uses 1kb pr min even when not in use, that means about 200$ every 5 month when not in a Free WiFi zone.