fring for iPhone updated: Bugs taken care off!

It’s been a busy weekend at the fring HQ. We would like to thank you all for your inputs, feedbacks, kind words and bug reports, Keep them coming.

After reading hundreds of mails, here’s a few things I thought we should point out:

1. The annoying “dot in the Email” bug -
So this is now a known bug that prevented some users from registering. We are working on it and will issue a solution ASAP.
In the meantime you have a few options:
- If you’re using gmail you can drop the dot and register as abcd@gmail.com instead of ab.cd@gmail.com - gmail supports this kind of modification to the user name.
- If you’re not using gmail you can leave this field empty and register with no Email address. Please write down your user ID and password since you won’t have an option to retrieve your password at a later stage.

We are already working on a fix to this bug - it should be available on the App Store in the next few days.

2. “Call terminated” on Skype and SIP
In most cases you’ll get this error when trying to make a call to a not recognized number. In order to make a successful call you should enter the number in its international format, for example:

For the US dial +1XXXXXXXX or 001XXXXXXXX
For the UK dial +44XXXXXX or 0044XXXXXXXX

But the best way to make an ‘Out’ call is by choosing a contact from the address book (Apple inc. in this example) –> Choose the type of call (SIP or Skype Out) –> Here you’ll have a chance to edit the number so it will fit the international format –> Click ‘OK’ and you’re done.

Please make sure you’re fully loggen in to Skype when trying to make the call, during the peek time this might take 2-3 min.

I’ll get back to my Emails now, we’ll be back here with more tips and tricks. Keep the feedback coming and thanks for your support.

fring for the iPhone & its official!

We’ve been listening really closely to your input, suggestions & insights on the pre-release version and together with some supportive recommendations like “please code faster !!!” we are happy to release fring for iPhone on the App Store (Supporting the iPhone and the new iPod touch devices).

We’ve added many new features to this version including ‘history tab’, ‘privacy settings’, ‘easy dialing from the main buddy list’ and many bug fixes.

This is a brand new, straight from the oven fring version (V1.0.1.4) The pre-release version is no longer available.

Have a great day

p.s We highly appreciate your feedback and insights, so as always, keep them coming!

The fring team

fring now on Sony Ericsson G900

You asked (more than once), and we listened (even if it took us some time to deliver ), but finally we’ve added all you Sony Ericsson G900 owners to the fring community.

This full featured version lets you interact with all your fring and IM buddies with free calls, live chat, file transfer and much more…

So get fringing and let us know how you go!

New Linux Version of fring Nokia

There’s a new version of fring for Linux (v.1.2.1.63)

Change Log:

• Added History Tab
• Integrated Dial-pad (screenshot below)
• Several minor bugs resolved

With the integration of the Dial-pad now making VoIP calls will be easier and even though we have taken care of some minor bugs I’m sure more will pop-up, which we will work to clear out.

So go try out the new Linux version here and as always do communicate your experience.

fring for Nokia N78 & (even b4 its launch) for the N96 !!!

We’ve been working hard with Nokia, and are pleased to announce that fring is now available for both the Nokia N78 & the N96. These super sexy, super cool top of the range Nokia phones provide a fringing fantastic experience. And we know fringsters are gonna love it.

If you own the N78, then go install fring and lets us know what you think! As for those on the lookout for the N96, when you have one in your palms do not hesitate to have a go with fring because its already supported.

Lots more news soon. Ya’ll Sony Ericsson fringsters stay tuned!

FOF: Friends of Fring!!!

With your ongoing support, fring has developed into an award-winning, global leader in mobile internet communications, and we’ve done so by listening to guys like you telling us what you think, what works and what doesn’t. Our cool services and features have been developed around your feedback and we recognize just how valuable your input has become. So, we’ve decided to take it a step further, by inviting you to join “friends of fring”, a small, exclusive group of fringsters which we will share information and development news with, take inputs and insights from, and provide hot new fring products, features and versions for you to play with before general release.

All we ask is that you continue to tell us what you think occasionally! Please note, there will be no obligation on your part to do so, but we will ask you to agree to keep confidential some of the developments we share with you.

As a FoF (aka friend of fring), you’ll receive a fringing welcome pack with some fun fring goodies , and access to a special password protected friends of fring web site where we’ll share the exclusive friends of fring info. We’ll also be hosting friends of fring social events every so often (lot’s of free drinks and other stuff…), so we can say thanks, get to know each other in person, share the cool new stuff in the product pipeline and hear your thoughts and ideas for future development.

Please note friends of fring is totally free of charge to be a part of. Application is open to any fring user, but to make it manageable and to keep it exclusive, the final selection will be limited to only a few users per country. So if you are interested in joining please apply now.

To apply, please send an email to friends@fring.com with your:

• <!-[if !supportLists]-><!-[endif]->name
• <!-[if !supportLists]-><!-[endif]->fring nick
• <!-[if !supportLists]-><!-[endif]->fring ID (your mobile no. with its international dial code)
• <!-[if !supportLists]-><!-[endif]->and a few short lines explaining why you’d like to join.

  Applications are open until Fri 12^th Sept and we’ll get back to you by Tues Sept 30^th.

  Hope to hear from you and make friends soon!

A whole bunch of Nokia phones now supported

It’s been a busy week here at the fring HQ. Last week we brought you 2 new fring ready devices and today we’re happy to add 5 more devices to the fring family. The devices are: Nokia N78, 6550, 6210, 6220 and 5320 - all of which are Symbian 9.3 devices.

To get this new version - simply go to the download page, enter your details and click ‘Join’.

Along with these handsets I’d like to bring to your notice support for another two Symbian handsets; Nokia E66 & E71. While the E66 gets fringing the E71 gets a special version. Get firnging on your E71 handset and let us know what you think of it. Feedback is most welcome as always.

To get it, simply go to our download page, choose your handset.

As you can imagine, developing the fring client is not an easy task and I’d like to take a minute to thank all the fring team for working day and night to bring you this new fring client. So: Thank you!

To those of you who are waiting for the Sony Ericsson G900 version, we know you’ve been waiting for some time now, we haven’t forgotten about you. Stay tuned for more updates soon.

fringing Olympic Updates

The Olympics countdown is on, and our dedicated onsite fringsters are ready to bring you the highlights and low down from the Olympics field and village… Day and night, you can receive free, unique updates via fring from our very own fringentators (commentators, correspondents, play-by-players, unruly news distributors, etc) from the Olympics fringAdd-on.

You can choose to receive live, local language fringfeeds from:
• Alexander Rusakov – Gold medal contender this games! This Russian trampoline champion is going to be fringing away when not focusing on the gold medal he is tipped to win!
• Oleg Zaporozhchenko Jr. – The Russian Olympics team coach & international category judge!
• Fei Wen – Malaysian Olympic volunteer and coordinating the onsite fring effort – thanks!!!
• Tania Teoh – Malaysian Olympic volunteer and avid fan of lots of sports including swimming, volleyball, badminton and more!
• Udi Moshel – Israeli sports obsessive… I mean, enthusiast… will be keeping us all updated with sports and social updates across the board from the fields and other online circuits!
• Agus Jose – Our Spanish sports and travel devotee will micro-blog about both with the added insight only a professional psychologist can offer!

All you have to do is to choose the fringAdd-on from our in-client catalog by: restarting fring –> click Options –> settings– > manage add-ons select one or more. Russians will be micro-blogging in Russian (beginning Aug. 13), Malaysians & Israeli in English and Spanish in….. Spanish (beginning Aug. 15). Cool !!!

You can get more info, review miniprofiles (with quite accurate caricatures) of our fringentators and keep tabs on their feeds from our Olympics page.

Let the fringing games begin!

fring extends handset support brings on minifring (Java ME & Linux)

Finally the day has arrived that many have been waiting for!!! The chance to use fring on other smartphones.

We’re really excited to release fring for loads of the most popular Sony Ericsson and Nokia phones out there (for those in the know, the ones running on JavaME (J2ME)) We’ve created a special version called minifring for these phones that don’t yet support voice over IP calling. With minifring these users will now be able to communicate with growing community of fringsters worldwide. Also, the great new fring applications (fring API) which developers around the world are working on will soon be available in the fringAdd-ons catalog for the hundreds of newly supported Java ME devices too!

We welcome all Sony Ericsson handset lovers, be it your Walkman phone or CyberShot phone you can now fring through them. Once again its been great work by our R&D department! This sure will increase the number of fringsters by atleast twice the number of handset support. Go ahead, invite your friends who earlier couldn’t be a fringster; not because they didn’t want to but because their handset wasn’t supported. Now many more shall experience fringing freedom.

We also welcome Linux (Nokia N810) users with full fring features including internet calls, chat, presence and more + some unique features.

Note:

* To check for a complete list of handset support, click here.

* fring now has lots of capabilities and features that slightly differ depending on device platform capabilities so check out what your phone can do here.

fringAPI Switches Into Next Gear

The fringAPI move has taken shape and moved into the next gear. We have the first few Add-ons ready for all ya fringsters. The first fringAdd-ons now live include Facebook, Gmail notifier, Orkut and more!

Facebook, Gmail notifier, Orkut, vTap and Yandex.mail notifier are the first new mobile applications ready for you via fring! With the fringAPI opened to developers we shall see a down-pour (much like the one Mumbai experienced today) with all kinds of mobile games, tools, services and apps all available via the fring catalog of fringAdd-ons.

To get on with fringAdd-ons, restart fring –> click Options –> settings– > manage add-ons select the ones you want and your favorite apps will be always-on and always mobile via fring (fring Add-ons are available for fring on Sony Ericsson -UIQ, Windows Mobile and Nokia Symbian 9 devices)

Note: Update fring on your handset to the latest latest