Fring…Communication PERFECTED.
Fring finally released on the Apple iTunes App Store!
Cost: FREE
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You’ve heard us going on about Fring for a couple of weeks now, actually pretty much as long as we’ve had this site online! Today it was finally approved by Apple and released to the iTunes App Store. I received a heads up this past weekend that it would be released this week and thankfully, on Friday, it was released into the wild. This app has been available for jailbreakers for some time and come with RAVE reviews. When the app store went live, one of the first things I searched for was a Skype app. Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past 5 years you know about VOIP system known as Skype. Click the link if you don’t to learn more. To my dismay, no search results were returned. A quick Google search came up with this thing called Fring which is already available on certain devices and was being tested by jailbreakers everywhere. Being the non-jailbreaking type, at least on my main phone, I decided to wait it out. We started the site and one of our first posts was about our anticipation for this application. Today it finally went up on the App Store and boy are we happy.
Fring allows us to chat via many different networks: AIM, Yahoo, Twitter, ICQ, etc. A lot of apps allow you to use these networks, including the recently released and expensive Beejive. What sets Fring apart from the others is, it allows you to connect to Skype and make Skype-out calls. With this, we can use our wifi connection to make voice calls to anyone anywhere we have a connection on our iPhones. In my case, I am in a rural area and lack cellular signal in a lot of places. On the same hand, I have a wifi connection in most places that I don’t have a cellular signal. Now I can use Skype to call out and receive calls. The instant messenger capabilities for me is just an added bonus, a very useful one I might add. There are already similar service available for the iPhone, but none are FREE like this one. We’ve been looking forward to this for a long time and trust me so far I’m very pleased with the application. A lot of people doubted it would ever make it, but here it is! I recommend it 100% to anyone, it should be required download for the iPhone.
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Tags: aim, app, app store, beejive, fring, icq, im, iphone, protocol, skype, twitter, voip, yahoo
October 4th, 2008 at 3:23 am
Saw your tweet, read your post and downloaded it straight away. I’ve heard a lot about this app. Excited to take it for a spin. Looking forward to hopefully having just the one IM app for the iPhone. Skype integration is a HUGE bonus.
Thanks for the heads up!
October 4th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
We think it’s great!
October 4th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
this app is simply amazing… i’m jealous that you reviewed it before i did. just kidding. awesome review dude! awesome video demo too!
October 4th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
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