Fring Releases Beta WM VOIP and IM Client

[Rocco Augusto]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.fring.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.fring.com/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"fring, a free mobile VoIP software, allows you to talk &amp; IM via your handset's internet connection to other mobile phones and PC-based services such as Skype, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, SIP and Twitter, at no extra cost."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/augusto-20070624-fring.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/><br /><br />I'm really starting to enjoy how web services left and right and starting to converge. New to the game of converging of services is fring, a free VoIP and IM service that allows you to text and speak over a variety of services which include, but are not limited to Skype, Google Talk, MSN Messenger and Twitter. The best part is, this program is absolutely free! :D

[Mike Temporale]

Helio (from Pocket PC Freak (http://www.pocketpcfreak.com/) and I were playing with this yesterday. It seems to have some problems with Voip using MSNM and Skype. It looks really promising, and hopefully those bugs will get solved quickly.

Has anyone else played with this? Any success doing Voip?

[swarup.datta82]

Cool man, But I'm a bit confused, yes for Symbian phones this is a decent solution, personally I did not like it for Skype due to privacy issues as you have to provide Fring (based out of Israel) with your Skype username/password. But why would one need/want this for a Windows based phone when you can load Skype on to them for free.