Now VoIP on the fringing iPhone

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by Stuart Corner

Wednesday, 16 April 2008

! fring has announced what it claims to be the world's first publicly available mobile VoIP application for the Apple iPhone. Related stories Why Pod when you can Plum? More evidence against iPhone 'bad antenna' theory Whoops! iPhone passcode bypass a cinch iPhone Dev Team releases working PwnageTool 2.0.3.1 to jailbreak iPhone 2.0.2 iPhone 3G: all your Internet parts are not belong to us What fring describes "a light, sneak preview R&D version" of its existing mobile VoIP application, developed in conjunction with the Holon Institute of Technology academic research labs in Israel, is available as a free download from http://www.fring.com. "The pre-release version is designed to both answer demand from iPhone-owning would-be fringsters and at the same time enable fring to learn about user experience, benefit from early feedback and influence the R&D process of the full release version, due for launch later this year," the company says. Users will be able to import contacts and buddies from their other online mobile communities on their iPhones. They will also be able to make free and low cost mobile calls over WiFi and engaging in instant messaging with their online contacts on their mobiles, PCs or other internet devices. fring users are able to communicate with each other and with contacts from Skype, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo! & AIM. During login, fring automatically creates a single, integrated contact list, combining contacts from all of the users' selected internet communities. And, the company claims, "because fring is an always-on, always-connected application, it offers special features such as real-time, PC-style 'presence' indicators which continually display whether contacts are online, away, offline, in a call, on their mobiles or in front of their PCs, providing new levels of freedom to interact and truly take the internet mobile. " fring was launched in February 2007 and operates on all Nokia Symbian Series 60 devices, Sony Ericsson UIQ Smartphones, Windows Mobile Devices, more than 500 mobile handset devices in total according to the company. It was soft launched in February 2007 and since January 2008 fring claims to have been signing up new users at 100,000 per month across more than 180 countries. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to post your comment! Tags See All Tags Smartphones  Stuart Corner  VoIP  iPhone  Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now

 

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