Description
fring is a multi-award winning mobile application that lets you make free voice calls, free video calls (one way) and live IM chats directly from your iPhone and iPod touch.
fring operates as your mobile social hub.
Communicate with your friends from fring and other favorite social services including Skype®, MSN® Messenger, GoogleTalk™, Twitter, Yahoo! ™, AIM®, ICQ, all through one central profile, using your iPhone and iPod touch's internet capability.
fring operates over multiple connection options (3G, WiFi, GPRS, Edge) directly from one integrated friends list.
See your friends’ real-time status and share your own; make yourself available at all times using push notification.
Note: Since the iPhone camera is on the opposite side of the phone (back-side) to the receiver, you can see but not transmit video during a video call.
FEATURES
• fring calls over WiFi and 3G
• fring video calls over WiFi and 3G (one way)
• Instant Messaging
• Integrated dynamic friends list
with real-time contact availability
• SIP integration
• Multiple Connection types
• Push notification support for fring, Skype®, MSN Messenger®, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ , AIM® communities
Note: Please check your cellular operator's terms of agreement to make sure they allow voip calls on their network before using fring.
What's New in Version 3.0.0.7
Bug fixes
Customer Reviews
Beware of "Sponsored" Messages
I just downloaded this app yesterday. Today, I used it to contact my boss via MSN, and it started sending him random messages like, "This service sponsored by Fring", and "You can use this service for free too" (that one isn't a direct quote; but captures the essence).
The ad messages would get tacked on to the end of my IMs, separated by carriage returns. Unfortunately, the line feeds would push my IM off the screen. My boss had to scroll up to see what I wrote.
Meanwhile, I have no idea this is happening since Fring doesn't bother to notify me about it. The only reason I found out was because my boss said, "Hello Fring", and I thought, "How the hell does he know I'm using Fring?" That's when he said, "Your service is spamming me."
This app may have some great features, as many other reviews indicate; but sending unsolicited spam IMs without notifying the sender is poor business and extremely unprofessional. I apologized to my boss when I got in for the incident. I shouldn't have to do that because of an IM client.
We should ask for Voip using Edge or 3G
We are paying AT&T 30$ per month for unlimited internet access, so, we should be able to use our internet acces for Voip too, this AT&T policy of banning this, is not fair and we should fight with them, they are getting our money for "unlimited internet" but they are actually limiting it, I am really disappointed with AT&T unfair practice, please lets do something, to make them respect our rights to use our internet connection as we wish.....
Good app, but a few bugs
Fring is a great app. I finally have a way to get in touch with Skype contacts on my phone.
There are just a few bugs to work out. When you run for the first time and register for an account, Fring says your e-mail address is not valid if it contains periods anywhere in the first part of the address (before the @). Thus, the specific format it looks for needs to be refined to reflect what is actually allowed in an e-mail address.
Also, when signing up for an add-on service and typing in your credentials, Fring needs more error handling. As an example, I mistyped my Skype password and instead of telling me that my password was wrong, it continued to spin the spinner graphic and continued telling me that it was adding the service. I had to stop it myself.
As far as the UI goes, Fring is great but in the text boxes where it asks for user names and e-mail addresses, it should disable the automatic capitalization of the first typed letter. This is a toggleable option when building the UI, and for things like e-mail addresses and user names, it makes sense.
Lastly, the icon needs a lot of work. Plopping logotype and the logo on a white background does not constitute a good icon. The full icon as it appears on the phone essentially states the name of the app twice, which is almost insulting. Remove the name from the graphic -- the text that appears below every iPhone icon will tell users what its name is. Do something fun with the icon itself; it doesn't need text. When placed on a screen that's full of other colorful, non-redundant app icons, Fring sticks out like a sore thumb. Please consider doing something better with this icon -- it's the first thing every user will see before they run your app, and it makes a big difference.
All in all this is a good app, it just needs a tad more intuition and slightly more adherence to Apple's human interface guidelines and it'll be a winner in my book.
- Category: Social Networking
- Updated Dec 16, 2009
- Current Version: 3.0.0.7
- 3.0.0.7 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 5.1 MB
- Languages: English, French, German
- Seller: fringland Ltd.
- © 2006-2010 fringland Ltd. All rights reserved
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.
