Fring Puts Skype Calling on Your iPhone!!!

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Posted April 15, 2008 at 1:28pm by iClarified

A fring beta has been released for the iPhone which supports Skype, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo! and AIM

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fring up your iPhone with this pre-release, development version and discover the freedom of taking all of your fring, Skype, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo! & AIM buddies mobile on your iPhone, allowing you to make free calls over WiFi & enjoy rich, IM-style chat with them using internet connection.
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"The special pre-release version will enable iPhone users to get an early taste of fring and discover the freedom of being able to take their fring contacts and buddies from their other favorite online communities mobile on their iPhones," the company said in a statement. "They will also have the ability to make free and low cost mobile calls over WiFi & enjoy rich, IM-style live chat with their online contacts, regardless of whether they are on their mobiles, PC’s or other internet devices."

fring is free to download and free to use! Simply add the following Installer Source to your iPhone: http://fring.com/iphone.xml

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Johny - Romania - April 28, 2008 at 6:49am

I don't know what is SIP. Can anybody explain for me ? Please !!! I have Fring on my Iphone and skype is nice but phone conection is bad and the sound is poor. I had problems also with SMS (I think Fring dleted my SMS)

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famicom - April 22, 2008 at 3:34am

I think it just deleted all my sms.........Can fring be responsible for that?

Rui - April 19, 2008 at 2:29pm

Calls doesn't work! :( It needs some improvements!

Kendall - April 16, 2008 at 7:37pm

If you want help with the issue, you should probably give a slightly more detailed description as to the problem :P

Rabbit - April 16, 2008 at 6:57pm

I can't install it from the installer. Now I have the fring.app, but I don't know how to install it manually. Bummer.

kendall - April 16, 2008 at 3:57pm

Had problems installing - I originally tried from school, from which fring is for some reason blocked. Slightly stupid. Had to reboot after adding the source before it showed up as a category.

CHO - April 16, 2008 at 11:34am

sip call worked great with me havent tried skype still only problem with sip call is i needed to press a number for an extension but could'nt who can inform of this

iClarified - April 16, 2008 at 11:18am

@steve, Earlier someone had posted as me... Sorry about that. I have deleted the comment and blocked it from happening again!

dt - April 16, 2008 at 11:16am

I can't get them to do anything however, like you I can ask. Hopefully they will listen.

JG - April 16, 2008 at 10:57am

@ DT: get them to enable multiple codecs, as different SIP providers use different codecs. G729a G726 G711 GSM

dt - April 16, 2008 at 10:54am

@JG, I know this. I was asking them to enable this in the next upgrade.

JG - April 16, 2008 at 10:50am

VOIP SIP will not work over EDGE in this version. Just confirmed it.

Dani - April 16, 2008 at 10:44am

The MSN feature (the only I tried) spam text after the sent message and change the Personal Message (the one that appear after your name on peoples Contact window) to a web site link without notify you, I found it very disappointing but other than that the program worked very well.

kostas - April 16, 2008 at 8:49am

doesnt need wifi to work. works with msn no problems. havent tried anything else yet. also.. i think all my old contacts are there because those contacts have ME added stil? nice app.. update away ;)

JG - April 15, 2008 at 7:48pm

fring is not compliant with my voip SIP provider. furthermore, it is unclear which codecs fring supports. I tried all 4: g729, g726, g711, and uncompressed gsm. it initiates call, and hangs. app crashes a lot. would like to see some error-handling support, and an advanced menu to manage proxy port, nat translation, invites, and codecs. in theory, this is a really cool app that fring could even charge a reasonable fee for. lets get this thing fully baked.

Joia - April 15, 2008 at 5:39pm

First of all, @Steve: stop being such a lame spammer - make a single post with whatever it is you want to say and then, quite frankly, shut up if you have nothing new to say! To all: bear in mind this is a pre-release version, and has a good number of bugs. For instance, I have all my MSN deleted contacts still there (as others have pointed out). However, testing something out is what helps this to be improved. So, use it - this is a really great app - and send your bug reports to them... Another obs: apparently it doesn't work over EDGE - only over wi-fi - can anyone else confirm/deny that?

Steve anderson - April 15, 2008 at 4:13pm

On MSN messenger old buddies from 3 years ago still on deleted on pc so how can fring have lists that old and were is it getting list from

j520 - April 15, 2008 at 3:34pm

they really are looking for our feedback... Gil Regev, Online Marketing Coordinator for fring, told us During this R&D period, well be listening to feedback, so we can fine tune the final version and create a truly kicking user experience for iPhone users, so your feedback (in case you have an iPhone) is really important from us. Regevs comments bring up an interesting point: some developers are now using the jailbreak community as a free beta test-bed for applications that are planned for distribution through the official AppStore. Though there are minor framework differences between the unofficial toolchain and Apples own, most applications are easily ported to the official scheme.

Steve anderson - April 15, 2008 at 2:53pm

ok thank you been impressed been on 15 mins MSN messenger really good

j520 - April 15, 2008 at 2:35pm

Steve, please understand that this is BETA software and is intended to only be released to testers and developers...dont expect it to work without any errors or strange hickup's, it will have many!