Fring Launches VoIP on the iPhone

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Fring this week announced the beta launch of its mobile VoIP app for the iPhone, allowing users to access Skype, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, Twitter, Yahoo! & AIM on their iPhones.

"Fring creates a single, integrated contact list when a user logs on to the service," writes InformationWeek's Terry Sweeney. "And as an always-on, always-connected application, Fring offers PC-style 'presence' indicators to display contacts' status – online, away, offline, in a meeting, on their mobiles, for example. Fring's VoIP app for iPhones is free to download and use. Consumers pay for any data they consume under existing service plans with their network provider; there are no hardware or location limitations to Fring's VoIP service."

There are some serious limitations, though, as I4U News' Shane McGlaun notes. "To use the service, you need to download it from Fring on what it calls an 'open' iPhone," he writes. "We could assume 'open' to mean unlocked or jailbroke. Perhaps the final version will be built using the Apple SDK for the iPhone, so any user can try the application…"

More here from Telappliantmore here from TG Dailymore here from dBTechnomore here from IntoMobilemore here from AfterDawnmore here from ZDNetmore here from eNews 2.0more here from ChannelWebmore here from ENNmore here from the Motley Foolmore here from The Registermore here from Wired … and the press release is here.


One Response to “Fring Launches VoIP on the iPhone”

  1. PhoneBoy said:

    Apr 17, 08 at 3:36 am

    Let’s not forget The VoIP Weblog: http://www.voip-weblog.com/50226711/fring_now_native_on_iphone.php


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