Tired of your old phone? Want to enjoy fring and other great applications available on Nokia’s Ovi Store? Celebrating the recent launch of the Ovi Store, Nokia & fring are collaborating together and giving out the most sough-after phone yet- the brand new N97 mini!

Start using Ovi today and enjoy a dazzling array of downloads, discover and download mobile applications, games, videos, music, themes and more from brands you know and trust. make the most of where you are with content that’s relevant to your location-as you discover new places, or as you’re re-discovering your favourite hang-outs. Get started at store.ovi.com

What you need to do? Simply send us one paragraph describing why you deserve to get this new phone along with a picture of you holding your old one! Yes, it’s that simple!

The 3 most convincing fringsters will be awarded a brand-new Nokia N97 mini phone.

Submit your entry today!

Hurry up, submissions end November 15, 2009!

Hello fringsters,

This is a note to our visually impaired users:

We’ve been listening to your comments about fring’s latest iPhone and iPod touch releases and, while we’re rushing to the next (and exciting) version, we’ve created this special version of the previous release (1.2.0.9) especially for you.

This version is titled “fring – visually impaired version” and is available at the App Store.

Thanks for your patience.

The fringTeam

fringsters, the Mashable Open Web Awards is the only multilingual international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. Through an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements and offers a unique opportunity for the most accomplished websites and services to receive international recognition for their achievements.

Using the widget below, please cast a vote for your favorite mobile application hint hint that means fring

Nominations close November 15th.

Guys, We’re really excited to welcome a whole lot of Slovakians to fring today! Following fring’s recent announcement if its GSMA Mobile Innovation Awards- local tournament win, today we are announcing a neat cooperation with O2 Slovakia, part of the international telecom Giant Telefonica, to offer fring to all its subscribers. Both recent events signify the telecom industry’s mainstream endorsement of mobile rich-communication technology in general and fring, specifically.

O2 Slovakia is partnering with fring, offering its users social communication capabilities over its networks. We applaud them for embracing the fact that mobile users really want the choice to share their mobile and internet experiences over traditional or mobile internet- channels, from their mobile phones– AKA fring.

Like the rest of you, now O2 Slovakia subscribers will be joining the fring community, which will allow them to chat and interact with other fringsters and their favorite web-based instant messaging and social networks for free, over Wi-Fi or within their O2 internet data package.

The specially localized fring version is now available for download via the O2 Slovakia website.

The full announcement can be found here.

So, without further ado, we welcome our new O2’s Slovakian users to the ever growing global community of fringsters.

vitajte!

The fringTEAM

We’re very excited about AT&T’s announcement today (confirmed by Apple) that its 3G wireless network will be open to third-party Internet voice applications on iPhone.

Until now fring users could only use fring on their iPhone over Wi-Fi, so this comes as great news for us and our iPhone fringsters.

fring’s dev team is hard at work, making sure we will be ready to go once 3G iPhone gates are open . We will be live before you can even say “fring for iPhone over 3G on its way!” with the new feature-packed version we released just today… but also over 3G!

fringTEAM

fring’s latest iPhone & iPod touch version(2.0.0.4) is now available on the App Store, with a new look, more integration between social networks, improved voice and much more!

The new version includes a new user profile, which allows you to update your fring nickname, avatar and mood text, and broadcast it back to your IM friends. You can also see your friends’ avatars and mood texts from other networks – currently on Skype, others coming soon.

You can also now use SkypeOut & SIP to call your friends directly from the fring address book with a much clearer line thanks to our voice team’s big effort to improve voice quality!

If that’s not enough we added- copy/paste & linking capabilities to save you time while chatting away with your friends and speakerphone support for all voice calls.

German users, we got some great news for you too – fring on iPhone/ iPod touch is also now available in your native language!

As you can see, we’ve been busy fringbees – improving features, introducing new capabilities and always staying ahead of the pack to continue being the ultimate social community hub for your iPhone/ iPod touch.

So go get the new version today and as always, feedback is much appreciated!

The fringTEAM