fringster’s iPhone video
Here’s a recent Youtube, made by a fringster, showing how to install fring on your iPhone.
The MacBlender blog calls fring “the world’s first true iphone voip app “ (see here). Another blogger, Eric Cheng, describes fring for iPhone as “awesome” and as “the best community messaging I’ve seen for the device.” (see here)
Thanks guys!
CDMA r.i.p.
It’s over. The last week for Australia’s CDMA network has come and gone. It finished up yesterday. It has now been officially turned off. (See story here)
For the technically inclined, AMTA, the mobile industry trade association, has a brief history of Australian CDMA on-line (see here). Australian CDMA began in September 1999.
CDMA was given a temporary reprieve by the federal government three months ago, …and there are many users in remote, rural and regional areas who find the CDMA service superior to the 3G alternatives now being offered.
world’s largest mobile
Gizmodo Australia today has a joke item about the world’s largest, and working, mobile phone (see here).
I wonder if it runs fring?
has flip flopped?
Has the flip phone fashion flopped? (Now, try saying that ten times ..quickly!)
As someone who doesn’t flip or slide, I don’t really know. But the Sydney Morning Herald technology blog kicks the issue around here.
I wonder if flip, slide, fold or none-of-the-above somehow reveals the mysteries of one’s deep seated psyche? And, then there is a bigger mystery, …why hasn’t someone got onto the chat show circuit with the idea?
iPhone fring. right now!
One of the most common requests we see from fringsters is “when will fring be available on iPhone”. Well, the wait is over.
fring labs, the fringcubator , is about to share a pre-release version of fring for open iPhones. This will make fring the first mVoIP technology in the iPhone space. The new version, at least at first, will be a Wi-fi only version of fring, and you can download it from here.
Keep tuned to fring.com, i fringsters!
mVoIP reviews
One sign of the growing maturity of the Mobile VoIP sector is the recent “soft launch” of a website dedicated to reviewing the latest and greatest in this still young field. The site is called, simply enough, “Mobile VoIP Reviews”, see here, encourages and shares user reviews of mVoIP applications. The site’s FAQ section is interesting too, see here.
wi fi numbers sky high
Is 2008 the year of the wifi phone? I prefer to make my predictions after the event, but if a new report from industry analysts Infonetics is true, then 2008 may be the it year.
“…Infonetics Research says WiFi phone sales increased more than 60 percent last year-682,000 units were sold worldwide..”
So there are 682,000 people out there who could use this “free advice” from fring.
has WiMaX maxed out?
The recent (and wholly predictable) decision by the recently elected Australian federal government to pull the rug out from a rural WiMax project initiated by the recently unelected former federal government is widely being seen as a setback for the WiMax standard. (See here for the story). In the US too, Sprint’s Wimax project has been painted as having a “cloudy future”. Even a recent OECD report has taken aim at Wimax.
Yet Nokia hasn’t given up on WiMax. (See here). Nor has Intel.
So what’s going to happen next? Do Nokia and Intel know something the OECD does not? Mathematician John Paulos has written about the pittfalls of prediction. His best bet? Follow the advice of playwright Eugene Ionesco. “You can only predict things after they’ve happened.”
family man
Arthur C Clarke, the science fiction writer who first speculated on the use of geostationary satellites for global communications, with the satellites parked in what are now called Clarke orbits in his honour, has died. See the excellent Information Week article here.
Clarke, who wrote looking forward into the future, had some interesting observations looking back on recent technological revolutions too.
“The mobile phone has revolutionized human communications and is turning humanity into an endlessly chattering global family,” Clarke says.
He goes on to say that communications technologies are “necessary but not sufficient” for human beings to get along, which is why there is still so much conflict in the world. Human beings need “tolerance and compassion to achieve greater understanding between people and nations.”
Clarke says, “I would like to see us overcome our tribal divisions and begin to think and act as if we were one family. That would be real globalization.”
