Fring for Symbian
Download fring for Symbian
What our users think
"No multi language and as all other sip voip. "
- Supports all major talk services
- Twitter client
- Simple-to-use interface
- File transfer
- VoIP
- Movie calling
- Lacks advanced IM/VoIP features
- Facebook integration not as good as it could be
Softonic Review
fring permits you to make free voice calls, free movie calls and talk via instant messaging on your phone.
When I was a boy, the only way of getting in touch with someone was to phone them up, write them a letter, or go to their house. These days tho’, there are uncountable different fresh ways to communicate thanks to email, instant messaging, VoIP, social networks, and the like.
This is fine, but it does pose problems in that it’s often difficult to work out the best way to reach someone. You might have separate acquaintance lists for Skype, Google Talk, Yahoo!, MSN, and Facebook, and permanently logging in, launching apps and finding your online pals can be a real chore. fring is designed to switch all that, providing you with a single platform, based on your mobile, where all of your online friends are available in one place.
fring supports most of the major talk services including Skype, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, Yahoo!, and AIM. You can also use the program to check Facebook updates, view Twitter feeds, and even listen to music with friends on Last.fm.
The application is ordinary to install and set up. Once you’ve registered for a fring account you can import your online contacts very lightly. You just go to the ‘Add-ons’ section, click a service you want to access (e.g. Skype, Yahoo!) and sign in using your normal log-in for that account. The contacts are automatically pulled into fring and displayed in the main window, and you can quickly view who is online and who isn’t.
Not only can you talk via instant messages but fring also lets you make cheap or free calls to your friends via SkypeOut/SkypeIn. This means you can ring people from your phone’s contacts locally or internationally, at vastly diminished rates. Of course, you’ll need to be in a WiFi hotspot for this to be of any benefit but gratefully, fring comes with a device for automatically logging you into your dearest hotspots.
There are a few extra talk features of note within fring, such as file transfer and a history view. However, its functionality is still vastly inferior to what you’d expect from most of the talk services themselves. For example, there are no emoticons, games, etc.
One superb thing about the latest version of fring is that it now introduces movie calling. This is only presently available on S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack two devices, but it’s an excellent feature and very effortless to use. You just click the Movie call in the Call menu and you’ll be able to teleconference with the person you’re calling. Of course, you will only see them if they are running fring on a supported device, but it’s excellent joy and the streaming quality is pretty sleek (albeit, obviously the quality depends on the phone you’re using).
This latest version of fring integrates Facebook and Twitter Two.0 support. The Facebook feature permits you to do a lot of the things you can do on Facebook (send messages, browse statuses, view photos, etc.), via a condensed interface built into fring. Unluckily, the Facebook section can be badly slow at times. It’s a shame too, that there’s no integration with Facebook talk. It would’ve been nice to have your Facebook contacts who are online display up in your list of fring contacts.
Overall tho’, fring makes for a superb way to manage all of your contacts on all of your networks from one, easy-to-use application.
Fring for Symbian
Download fring for Symbian
What our users think
"No multi language and as all other sip voip. "
- Supports all major talk services
- Twitter client
- Simple-to-use interface
- File transfer
- VoIP
- Movie calling
- Lacks advanced IM/VoIP features
- Facebook integration not as good as it could be
Softonic Review
fring permits you to make free voice calls, free movie calls and talk via instant messaging on your phone.
When I was a boy, the only way of getting in touch with someone was to phone them up, write them a letter, or go to their house. These days tho’, there are uncountable different fresh ways to communicate thanks to email, instant messaging, VoIP, social networks, and the like.
This is fine, but it does pose problems in that it’s often difficult to work out the best way to reach someone. You might have separate acquaintance lists for Skype, Google Talk, Yahoo!, MSN, and Facebook, and permanently logging in, launching apps and finding your online pals can be a real chore. fring is designed to switch all that, providing you with a single platform, based on your mobile, where all of your online friends are available in one place.
fring supports most of the major talk services including Skype, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, Yahoo!, and AIM. You can also use the program to check Facebook updates, view Twitter feeds, and even listen to music with friends on Last.fm.
The application is plain to install and set up. Once you’ve registered for a fring account you can import your online contacts very lightly. You just go to the ‘Add-ons’ section, click a service you want to access (e.g. Skype, Yahoo!) and sign in using your normal log-in for that account. The contacts are automatically pulled into fring and displayed in the main window, and you can quickly view who is online and who isn’t.
Not only can you talk via instant messages but fring also lets you make cheap or free calls to your mates via SkypeOut/SkypeIn. This means you can ring people from your phone’s contacts locally or internationally, at vastly diminished rates. Of course, you’ll need to be in a WiFi hotspot for this to be of any benefit but gratefully, fring comes with a instrument for automatically logging you into your dearest hotspots.
There are a few extra talk features of note within fring, such as file transfer and a history view. However, its functionality is still vastly inferior to what you’d expect from most of the talk services themselves. For example, there are no emoticons, games, etc.
One fine thing about the latest version of fring is that it now introduces movie calling. This is only presently available on S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack two devices, but it’s an excellent feature and very effortless to use. You just click the Movie call in the Call menu and you’ll be able to teleconference with the person you’re calling. Of course, you will only see them if they are running fring on a supported device, but it’s superb joy and the streaming quality is pretty slick (albeit, obviously the quality depends on the phone you’re using).
This latest version of fring integrates Facebook and Twitter Two.0 support. The Facebook feature permits you to do a lot of the things you can do on Facebook (send messages, browse statuses, view photos, etc.), via a condensed interface built into fring. Unluckily, the Facebook section can be badly slow at times. It’s a shame too, that there’s no integration with Facebook talk. It would’ve been nice to have your Facebook contacts who are online showcase up in your list of fring contacts.
Overall however, fring makes for a good way to manage all of your contacts on all of your networks from one, easy-to-use application.