Great Brands & Premium Content on the New Zlango Virtual Store!

Welcome to the world’s first Virtual Store for mobile messaging – with exclusive branded and premium content that add even more personality, personalization and impact to mobile messages!

See our new premium content and the Zlango Virtual Store in action in this quick demo video:

What does this mean exactly?

It means that now you can find the perfect images and packs to add even more impact and your own personality to your mobile messaging.
So whether you’re a Terminator 2 fan, live for The Walking Dead, are about to get Hitched, love the Ocean like us, or prefer Anime, Namaste Indian culture, Western style or GTL lifestyle, there’s premium content waiting for you at the Zlango Virtual Store.

How do you acquire such amazing premium icons and packs?

Enter the Zlango Virtual Store from anywhere within the Zlango free app. Browse through the many packs of icons and select the packs or images that you like.
We give you a stash virtual currency called ‘Z coins’ to spend on your favorite images from the Zlango Virtual Store inside the Zlango free app. You can see how much virtual currency you have left at the top of the store screen and purchase more Z coins easily from inside the store (get more button) as well!

Can I really help save the planet and text at the same time?

Yes! You can! We’ve teamed up with the Surfrider Foundation and created an Oceans Pack. We’re very proud to be the first messaging application to drive donations to an environmental cause! All proceeds from the Oceans pack are 100% donated directly to the Surfrider Foundation, a wonderful non-profit grassroots organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of our world’s oceans, waves and beaches.
Here is what Jim Moriarty, the CEO from Surfrider has to say about this, "We are excited to be partnering with Zlango and their Virtual Goods launch to raise awareness and funding for key coastal environmental issues… Thanks to the innovative nature of Zlango's mobile messaging pack, we'll be able to reach a new audience and expand our activist network."

 
“I’ll be back” just got visual!

We’re excited to have partnered with two great brands to provide Zlango texters with exclusive branded content from The Walking Dead and Terminator 2, bringing even more impact to daily texting.

We’re creating new packs of exclusive and high-impact images all the time to help you express your personality and between-the-lines intention with everyday mobile communication!
As always, we’d love to hear what you think, which are your favorite images, special requests for more expressions, images and packs – via comments below, facebook or twitter.
Stay tuned for more great Zlango news coming at you soon!

Hasta-la-vista texters!

Make The Most Of Your Phone, It's Smart!

As technology rapidly evolves, our lives are becoming easier every day. The smart phone really has earned its title. For this reason and inspired by Earth Day, we have a few great green tips for you and your phone to contribute to helping preserve our planet in celebration of earth month!

We’re continuing to celebrate Earth Month – with some green tips for you and your phone!

      Let your phone be your GPS!

Save driving time and money on gas, and save the trees by not using paper printed maps. Your phone can help navigate you where you need to go, let it! Most operators / smart phones come with their pre-loaded GPS but you can also download your own favorites. If you want to see where to go and also avoid the traffic, try waze. We love it!

Phone and Flash Light! Nifty!

Turning on and off the lights is when the most energy is wasted, if you can limit the amount of times your switching on the lights, why not? Being resourceful, you can use the back light of your phone as a flash light, or download one of these flash light apps, they’re free! This will not only cut down on the energy output but also your electric bill.  

Good night moon, good night phone!

When you are not using your phone, power it off completely! If you don’t need it on all the time, then don’t leave it on. Leaving your phone on 100% of the time is draining for your battery, and it is a nice mental break to turn it off occasionally. A new campaign promoting, “National Day of Unplugging,” is encouraging people to take a mental detox for 24 hours a week and unplug!

If you need to keep your phone on for your alarm to work, a neat trick (that saves power and also saves you getting alerts or phone calls during the night) is to keep your phone on Flight Mode. Just remember to turn it off in the morning so you don’t miss important calls all day!

If you or your friends have any green tips share them with us in the comments below or on Facebook or Twitter!

Happy Earth Day texters!

Sources:

http://cellphones.about.com/od/greencellphonepractices/tp/Green-Cell-Phone-Practices.htm

http://environment.about.com/od/recycling/a/cell_phones.htm

http://www.causes.com/causes/648905-national-day-of-unplugging/actions/1533560

Making Your Phone Green Inside & Out

Earth Techling posted a great article about "How to Make Your Phone Green" with several tips on how to make your mobile greener.

Some interesting tips from their post included:

1)    Conserve the life span of your phone and turn down the back light, this will not only help protect your eyes but also extend the battery life!

2)    Your phone does not need to stay plugged in after it is finished charging. Try to only charge your phone when the battery is really low and not just through night because it is habit.

3)    Hipsters have made it cool to use things that are outdated, you can too. Your phone does not need to be replaced every time a new model comes out. Don’t give up your phone and stick with it for a longer amount of time and when it is finally time to retire your phone, make sure to recycle it or give it to a charity. It’s fun, easy and hip to keep your phone for longer!

Only Kermit the frog is entirely green, but here are three more green tips from our team that are easy ways to save energy and go green this earth day and even throughout the year:

1)    Unplug your cell phone charger when you are not using it! There are about 327 million mobile phones in the US, each charger using about one watt, that this is about 327 million megawatts of energy which is enough to power over 200,000 homes! Unplug your charger and you will not only be saving energy but also your bill.

2)    Use your phone as your alarm clock, this way you only have to have one electric device plugged in and save energy!

3)    Save paper by taking notes on your phone or using the calendar function! Even simple phones are smart these days!

4)    Spread green fever. Every action counts, but more people have greater impact! So tell your friends how you’re being environmentally friendly and spread the green fever!

Did you know you can also make your phone LOOK and BEHAVE more green on the inside?

Here are some ways you can turn your screen green, your messages green and show off how green you are! (Maybe it'll catch on and you'll be environmentally friendly even beyond Earth Month.)

Who knows, this earth day, you might even start a green movement amongst your friends to participate in a green activity! Send the message, let them see what it is all about and share the green fun!

Save a Tree, Send a text!

While it’s important year round to find green ways of living and to protect our beautiful earth, April is a great impetus to save a little more gas, use a few less bags and recycle more bottles… It’s Earth Month!

Our team here at Zlango has been inspired to create a fun way to talk about saving the world with real and humorous ways to share the environmental lifestyle with your friends. It all starts with our motto for this month, “save a tree, send a text!” and we’re celebrating this step toward a healthier planet with a brand new ‘Earth Pack!’

Throughout this Earth Day month we will also be sharing other green tips and hints on how to protect and preserve our planets natural resources and energy, and of course sharing the earthly spirit with our own quirky twist of off-center images and humor.

So, what are you doing to be nice to planet earth this month? Tell us in the comments here, or on our bustling facebook page if you prefer, or just text a friend your earthly initiative and perhaps they’ll be inspired to do their part too!

Lets go… Save a tree, send a text!