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Fring Adds Two-Way Video Calling Over 3G to iPhone 4

CFreymarc said:
This is what spokes models are for on product launches.

You find the right pretty face and pleasant voice talk about your product, her modeling fee is quickly recovered when the promotion airs.
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This might be the only thing worse than the charisma-black hole they chose....

some cute girl who has no idea what she's talking about, stumbling through the teleprompter. ugh.

spokesmodels are just about completely useless 99% of the time. at least this guy is invested... if incredibly annoying.

i don't need some pretty face to bumble through tech specs for me. give me the geek who knows what's what, and get it done already.
 
I tried video chatting with myself on my laptop with skype over 3G, and I couldn't get it to connect. When I tried it over wifi, it ended up working after about 3 tries, but the video was extremely laggy and almost unusable.

Then I called the Apple Facetime Support number to compare, and the quality was fantastic compared to this fring app. I thought the quality with fring was bad because of my connection, but it worked flawlessly with FaceTime.
 
danb77 said:
I've just tested it.

Two way video calling works but quality is awful. Blocky and laggy.
Worlds away from FaceTime and certainly no rival.

So poor you won't use it. :-(
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Guys... what do you expect? 3G is not meant to stream video... this is why Apple went with WiFi for FaceTime. Some people have talked about how other countries have had video calling for years... but it's like the old days of dial up and what you just experienced... no magic is going to make it great... there's only so many pixels you can cram through the pipe.

With that said... it is cool that it works and it is too bad that Apple didn't allow it... but I'm sure it has to do with quality and I'm sure AT&T as well as other carriers pleaded with them not to do it until they can handle the flood of data. Can you imagine 2M new iPhone users within a couple weeks all wanting to try out video calling and the AT&T network. It would take them down I'm sure... as well as others.

:)
 
sideline3 said:
FaceTime is Wi-Fi only because Apple likes their applications to be of the highest quality and they probably just didn't have time to perfect it over 3G so they made it Wi-Fi only. Where as Fring just wants to be the first to say they did it and worry about the quality never.
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And it doesn't work with iChat because.....?

Let's face it. Not supporting iChat (and thus home-based computers) is Steve saying the Mac is dead. He doesn't even care enough to keep applications up-to-date on both platforms and have them be able to talk to each other.
 
So I tried to make a fring account and every single damn username I put in is already used apparently, even my name, which I know of only one other person, my uncle, who has the same name. I think something's wrong?
 
Joke!!!

What a joke!!!

Downloaded, tried to register Username/ id, try about 30 different names, even tried my Korean name, all taken. really???

After trying to register for 10 mins with many different Username, erase the whole thing from iPhone.
 
Fring is old news. I always thought they were a joke really. Their stuff feels and looks buggy.
 
I went ahead and downloaded it, just in case AT&T makes Apple pull it from the App Store.
 
Just tested it with a video skype call over wifi to my dad's PC in another state, and it worked pretty well!

it was nowhere near as good as a facetime call, and the audio was terrible compared to a normal skype call. I'd say the quality is about on par with a Qik call my buddy showed me on his Evo.

There's no substitute for facetime at the moment, but the simple fact that I can video call my dad's PC with my iPhone is amazing.

I turned off wifi and tried to call him back on skype over 3G, and the option to call disappeared in Fring. I closed the app, started it up again and still could not call him over 3G. When I turned wifi back on, the option appeared again.

i'm going to try a 3G video call to an iphone in a few min.
 
Seems like they are having server problems?

Slow login, slow authentications.

Hope it clears up soon.
 
I just want to see the iPhone 4 work with iChat and Yahoo Messenger!

Does anyone know if Apple's api's would allow developers to write such an app?
 
MagnusVonMagnum said:
And it doesn't work with iChat because.....?

Let's face it. Not supporting iChat (and thus home-based computers) is Steve saying the Mac is dead. He doesn't even care enough to keep applications up-to-date on both platforms and have them be able to talk to each other.
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The Mac as we know it might be dead right now but I think we'll see something pretty cool and revolutionary coming soon. There's no way that Apple's flagship is fully dead.
 
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