Mig33, one of the world’s largest mobile communities and host of the new mig33 miniblog, on Thursday said that it has recently struck deals within India with several handset companies like G’Five Mobile, Intex Technologies and Zen Mobile to have its popular social entertainment app come pre-loaded on some of the hottest mobile devices on Java and Android platforms.

With these partnerships mig33 will leverage the popularity of these top brands and gain further consumer exposure strengthening its reach in the market. The app is already a very popular virtual world in tier 2 and tier 3 cities and delivered over 300 billion messages and over 185 million virtual gifts globally in 2011.

In return, handset companies gain access to mig33’s 55 million registered users and thriving virtual economy, with a potentially lucrative revenue stream resulting. With this development, mig33 extends its reach to over 5 million handsets in the market in 2012.

“Our popularity with mobile-first users in tier 2 and tier 3 cities in India is encouraging us to build a more pervasive reach of mig33. We expect handset partnerships to leverage this opportunity in a potentially strong India market.

“Moreover, we are continuously developing the mig33 client on latest and popular platforms to grow user base in emerging markets of the world,” said Mahip Vyas, Country Manager (India) for mig33.

Arshit Pathak, Managing Director, G’Five India said,” Our business philosophy is to make technology & exciting applications available to common people“. G’Five remains among top the three handset companies in India in 2011 after Nokia and Samsung and is also among the top 10 Global Handset brands as per Gartner.

Intex Technologies which recently launched Android tablet i-Tab, equipped with an array of rich applications and features is all geared up to launch innovative products in the mobile phone and tablet space. Sanjay Kumar, GM-Mobile Business, Intex Technologies added, “Application rich phones are in trend now and we intend to offer variety of useful and entertaining applications in all our products. Now we are offering a unique social entertainment app like mig33 that will further delight our customers. Intex has been offering affordable user-friendly products across various categories over a decade now and our loyal customer base is a living testimonial to our claim.”

Zen Mobiles is also geared up to launch multimedia feature rich Java mobile handsets and Android tablets loaded with social networking experience like mig33 at affordable price in the Indian market.