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Fring Brings VOIP to iPhone, Touch

Tuesday April 15, 2008 7:33 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
Fring announced an early release of their Voice Over IP (VOIP) application that allows you to make telephone calls over the iPhone's Wifi connection. Besides VOIP, it is also a multi-client instant messaging client with support for Skype, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo! & AIM.

Bringing PC-benefits to the mobile, fring will empower you with mobility and availability as never before, integrating all contacts in to one, searchable buddy list, allowing you to see whos online before dialing with contact availability indicators, engage in multiple conversations simultaneously, send & receive files and more.

Fring has also provided a Youtube video demonstrating the Fring application on the iPhone. At present, it is only available to Jailbroken iPhones. Download instructions available here.

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cparkphoto
Posted: 50 months ago
Anybody else played with the new fring app yet? Strange that they released one for jailbroken phones. I guess they feel that apple is going to be ok with releasing apps that were previously available via installer. They say on there site that they are doing it for testing. Had a couple crashes but mostly smooth.

Edit: obviously my iPhone doesn't even know fring exists yet since it called it fringe in the subject line
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mkrishnan
Posted: 50 months ago
How 'bout a link? I google'd and can't figure out what you're talking about....

Are you talking about this?

http://www.fring.com/
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i0Nic
Posted: 50 months ago
Now we can make calls for free over wifi weeee!
Skype support!

http://digg.com/apple/First_ever_VOIP_for_iPhone
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cparkphoto
Posted: 50 months ago
www.fring.com/iphone.xml
So far so good. Couple of crashes at the beginning but since then it has been running smooth. Seems to run well in the background. Boygenius has some info up on it as well.
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psychofreak
Posted: 50 months ago
Any screen shots please?

This is fairly awesome, and it would be pretty cool if someone were to make a touch-compatible microphone (we know this is possible due to the complex-seeming solution on the old firmware).
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cparkphoto
Posted: 50 months ago
Screenshots on boygenius
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/04/15/fring-releases-native-iphone-application/
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touchyphone
Posted: 50 months ago

Any screen shots please?

This is fairly awesome, and it would be pretty cool if someone were to make a touch-compatible microphone (we know this is possible due to the complex-seeming solution on the old firmware).



Why not just get an iPhone instead of hoping Apple makes a mic for it(they won't why would the risk iPhone sales). Get an iPhone, simple....
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igglepuff
Posted: 50 months ago
i've used SIP with fringe a couple of times and it works great. ONly issue is the delay, though many other SIP capable apps seem to be teh same :( Haven't tried skype out, it keeps bringing me bak to the dialpad when I try :/

anyone else get a delay, or get skype call-out working?
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igglepuff
Posted: 50 months ago

Now we can make calls for free over wifi weeee!
Skype support!

http://digg.com/apple/First_ever_VOIP_for_iPhone


toobad it keeps bombing to the dialpad when i trytp use skype-out. SIP works fine, jsut has a 2s~ delay ;/
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nsheikh80
Posted: 50 months ago
Just downloading now

http://www.fring.com/iphone/

TUAW had an analysis

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/04/15/fring-voip-on-iphone-live-blog-tryout/
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