We couldn’t wait. You couldn’t wait… we had to show you this….

As you can see, fring is 1st to bring our wicked-awesome-cool video calling to Nokia’s latest Smartphone – the N8!

But if you are one of the lucky ones to already have an N8, you can experience fring on the N8 yourself.
Just fill out this early access form to put fring’s N8’s video calling to work for you.

fring your friends on the mountain tops, fring your friends in the valley, on the beaches and in the air.

Important note: the N8 does not yet have the final Nokia firmware so there are still a few kinks to be worked out.

The fringTEAM

fringsters listen up

This is your opportunity to shine and show us just how much you love football, your mobile phone and fring. In exchange we will give 3 fringsters shiny new Nokia N97 mini handsets courtesy of our freinds over at Nokia and Ovi Store. *

To this affect we have just lauched the fring football contest on our facebook. We now invite you to upload your fring-a-fied football pictures to our wall and get your friends to “like” them. The picture with the most “likes” wins.

We have made it easier for those who are not at the soccer to enter using cut and paste graphics as per the sample below. However we encourage those of you lucky enough to be at the football to us your imagination, creativity and send us some way cool fring-a-fied football images.

As they say in the movies, may the best fring-a-fied picture win

1. Download this image

2. Using some nifty computer software paste the hardhat above over your other image. As per the sample below. If you havn’t got such software get your friends to help you.

3. Upload your fring-a-fied picture to this facebook wall.

4. Get your friends, family and co-workers to upload their own pics and “like” your pictures.

5. To get extra coverage and more brownie points link to them from your facebook, twitter and other social spaces.

6. Thats it. Now sit back and watch as the “likes” roll in and you may just be the next winner.

To see what others are uploading click here. We look forward to seeing all your fring-a-fied images soon.

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fringsters listen up! Nokia today unveiled a unique new product for emerging markets. The bicycle cellphone charger which will offer “free and environmentally friendly electricity” to mobile device users, is a much needed addition to the Nokia line of products.

The low cost device which will retail for R160.00 gets power via a dynamo which uses the motion of the bicycle wheel to generate electricity. The device is aimed at developing markets and countries where people have limited access to basic utilities.

“The package, which will be released towards the end of this year, will include a handlebar mount, dynamo and a 2 mm charger jack.” There is currently no confirmation on where or when it will be available locally but be assured we will keep you posted.

This truly is a great new device from Nokia and we beleive it will improve the lives of millions in Africa.

fringsters, did you know you can now learn the South African Sign Language Alphabet using your mobile phone?

South Africa has more than 1.5 million deaf citizens, in the USA the number is closer to 9 million and in the UK it’s around 8.9 million. Thats almost 20 million people in only 3 countries.

With such a high number of deaf people globaly surely there should be an easy way to learn Sign Language to help narrow the gap in communication between the hearing and the deaf.

The newly launched range of HandSign mobi guides aims to close the gap by helping hearing folks learn the most basic of alphabet signs so that they can then communicate with the Deaf.

The first 3 guides in the range are:

1. South African Sign Language (Live in Ovi)
2. American Sign Language (Coming soon)
3. Canadian Sign Language (Coming soon) (Live in Ovi)

You can download these premium guides and more via the Nokia Ovi Store. Why not take a few minutes every day to learn the sign language alphabet in your country so you can spread the love and communicate with a deaf friend in your area.

Nokia Symbian users- pay attention, your fring has just become even easier to use!

Finding your friends is made lot easier now, thanks to fring’s automatic friend-finder. fring can now add all your phone book friends, who are already fringsters, into your fring buddy list so you can video-call, call and chat for free with more friends around the globe from your mobile phone. Cool eh?

From now on, you can also create your full profile right at the registration process, so your real-time status and avatar will show the 1st time you log into fring.

This new version also contains many bug fixes, quite a few resolved thanks to our users’ ongoing feedback and support, keep it coming guys

Symbian users- Go get your new fring version (4.3) today!

The fringTEAM

Breaking news:

“Nokia today announced the long awaited arrival of the Nokia N97 Mini in South Africa” and the good news fringsters is that we already supports this sexy new device.

Sporting new homescreen widgets, this slim device packs 8GB of storage, a tilting 3.2 inch touch display and full QWERTY keyboard all within a 14.2mm thin frame.”

As with many of the latest Nokia smart phones the N97mini sports the new free to download and use Ovi Maps, which now works on the device without needing an internet connection.

Oh and for those of you thinking that Ovi Maps is the new mapping kid on the block, think again! “Ovi Maps covers more than 180 countries with car and pedestrian navigation for 74 countries, in 46 languages, and traffic information for more than 10 countries.” Todate they have only mapped 27.6 million kilometers of the earths roads and Nokia also claims to have sold in excess of 80 million GPS enabled handsets so far. Not bad if I may say so myself.

Anyway for for a better understanding of the N97mini and Ovi Maps see the video below.

Ps. see if you can spot your favourite mobile app in the video.

Until next time..

The fring team

A few weeks ago we announced the release of the world’s 1^st mobile internet video calls on Symbian S60 and iPhone/iPod touch devices.

Thanks to overwhelming user demand and video call usage, we started rolling out video call support for more devices over the last few weeks.

Now more good news! Today it’s Nokia E72 & E75 (and all other Symbian 9.3) users can video call with their friends on fring and Skype for free!

All Nokia Symbian users, we’ve got news for you too! The newest version contains some quality improvements, bug fixes and better connectivity in some specific scenarios – so we highly recommend that you get the latest and greatest version, as well.

How do you get it? Simply go to fring’s download page and get it today!

We have some more news coming for you in the next few weeks so stay tuned.

The fringTEAM