Fring rocks!
Once in a while I see something that wows me. Fring is one of those things. Fring is a free application that installs on your mobile, and brings together a host of services. I have it set up on my mobile to log in to my iinet voip service, skype and msn. This gives me the ability to make outbound calls using my SkypeOut (great for international), my voip (great for national) or my mobile service (great for mobile). In truth, choosing a service is probably already one step of effort more than I would take except for international, but having all the services unified on my mobile including a 02* (traditional landline / PSTN) phone number on my mobile blows me away.
The Fring website says “fring is compatible with Symbian 8, 9.1, 9.2, Windows Mobile 5 & 6 and UIQ handsets”. It installed on my Nokia N73 with no problems at all, and was a breeze to configure. I have 500MB a month included in my data plan with 3, so it will be interesting to see how quickly I burn through the 500MB using Fring.
hey hey mark
Fring is now available on iPhone!
BTW – I also managed to get my iinet VoIP to work on Fring. Problem is once Fring connects to iinet, my home ATA (iiNet Belkin ATA) is “logged out” so the home handset doesn’t work. Only way around this is to power cycle the ATA so it logs back in. Grrrrrrrrrr