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Fring! (Installed VOIP and multi-client IM app now available on iPhone)
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Well, if you have friends who live abroad (like I do), get them to get skype or whatever you have and then it's free (as it's skype-to-skype not skype-to-phone for example).
I talk to my girlfriend in America every night for 5 hours ish - couldn't do it without VOIP.
So this basically lets you make free calls over the net then... And do Skype and MSN voice chats... COOL! To bad this wont work on the iPod Touch 
Does i only make calles via WIFI? that sux, I want to be able to make voip calls via via my phone/isp provider.
I plan to use ONLY a data plan, but they charge 1996 prices for calls to mobile phones with this plan. I hope to find a VOIP provider that has resnoable prices to swedish mobile phone providers.
I plan to use ONLY a data plan, but they charge 1996 prices for calls to mobile phones with this plan. I hope to find a VOIP provider that has resnoable prices to swedish mobile phone providers.
So this basically lets you make free calls over the net then... And do Skype and MSN voice chats... COOL! To bad this wont work on the iPod Touch
I believe you can still have text chats like in MSN through the iPod/iPhone keyboard. I think anyway lol, you can in all the desktop versions of the programs.
OK cool, I might install it for that then, as a native MSN app will be good, cant use the VOIP on my iPod Touch though
Is MSN good? Can you do most of the stuff you can do with the dekstop version of most MSN clients? I have been needing a native MSN client on my iPod Touch for a long time.
I would test it myself but I have no WiFi access ATM, and internet Sharing is broken like always.
It looks like it supports basic text chatting, adding buddies (but not deleting them or blocking them at this time?), and a whole ton of services. But not much else at this point. It seems to support voice chat on services other than Skype, but I haven't played with that.
I think right now, it's most compelling point is that it's a multi-client installed IM app that can receive IMs in the background, which is something we didn't really have before....
yah so i got this app.. but it dont work over edge....anyone no if its supposed to or not. it works on wifi but it always says reconecting on edge.
I tested this out yesterday, just made a account with Fring and set up my MSN account, then whenever I went to my buddy list it crashed!
ModNote: The side discussion of the iPhone going to 32GB, the iPhone as a multifunction device vs. as a phone, and the iPhone vs. the Nokia N95 and E61 have all been forked into this thread. Please start new threads for discussions of new topics; you can always place a link to the new thread in the thread that spawned the discussion, so that your friends can join you. This is less disruptive than threadjacking. Thanks! --mkrishnan
--mkrishnanIt doesn't have to be Apple, some of the best iPod add-ons are made by Griffin for example.
What's this business about a Skype "phone number?"
Hi everyone,
I'm a complete newbie to Skype---just installed it for the first time and tried to make Fring work on my iPhone. I've got two accounts (with different Skype names) for my family going just fine on computer to computer. But how do I get free Skype to work with Fring? There doesn't seem to be a place in Fring where I can call a Skype Name, only a "number" via the dialer. When I go to the Skype page and sign up for a number, it wants to charge me $18 for 3 months!!! I thought Skype VoIP was FREE??
Am I doing something wrong?
(AIM chatting is working just fine with Fring...just not Skype)
Hi everyone,
I'm a complete newbie to Skype---just installed it for the first time and tried to make Fring work on my iPhone. I've got two accounts (with different Skype names) for my family going just fine on computer to computer. But how do I get free Skype to work with Fring? There doesn't seem to be a place in Fring where I can call a Skype Name, only a "number" via the dialer. When I go to the Skype page and sign up for a number, it wants to charge me $18 for 3 months!!! I thought Skype VoIP was FREE??
Am I doing something wrong?
(AIM chatting is working just fine with Fring...just not Skype)
Do you have these Skype contacts on your contact list? Don't they show up as logged in on the buddy list in Fring?
Nope, surprisingly, they don't show up as logged in. Also, the computers running those other accounts on Skype software do not see that I'm logged in on Fring.
After about 15 minutes, sometimes if I try to call the name logged in on Fring, it will ring and say "call refused," and the status will update (on the computer) to show online. But I still cannot place a call or send a text. But I know the connection exists, because the instant I exit Fring on the iPhone, the status on the computer drops back to offline.
Weird, eh? Some kind of proxy/other bug?
(The contacts DO show up right away when they are logged into AIM or MSN, but never when they are logged into Skype.)
Well....now it seems to be working okay. I have found that in order to get it to work, I have to exit Fring, then re-launch, and then I finally show up as online on my friends' lists.
But it's pretty buggy....crashes quite a bit, audio quality is not superb (though the latter is perhaps due to my miserable 512k upstream speed).
I'm sure the final version will be fantastic!
Yes, please add speakerphone support!
But it's pretty buggy....crashes quite a bit, audio quality is not superb (though the latter is perhaps due to my miserable 512k upstream speed).
I'm sure the final version will be fantastic!
Yes, please add speakerphone support!