Wish I had this when I was driving through Norwich last Winter….

Tchart Development has a great mobile application called GPS Speed Sentry that lets you know about speed cameras in the area that you are driving. Obviously it doesn’t turn your mobile into a radar detector, but through a database that is updated regularly they use your mobile device’s GPS to alert you of upcoming speed cameras and if your are driving over the speed limit too.

For more details about this little money (and potential life saver!) head over to Tchart Developments site and download the app

system requirements
GPS speed sentry is compiled for xscale/arm, mips and sh3 processors. It runs on Microsoft Pocket PC 2000,2002, 2003, 2003SE and window mobile version 5 & 6.

Thanks to Pocket Picks for the link!

To make life easier for Wi-Fi users fring now supports auto roaming between GSM and WiFi networks.

What does this mean?

• owners of dual-mode phones (cellular and WiFi) can seamlessly keep IP connectivity at all times, while using the most effective communication channel.
• when you enter your home, fring identifies your WiFi AP and automatically links to it. All of your VoIP calls will then go over the free WiFI connection
• when you go out, the system will automatically switch the connection to the 3G channel and keep your online availability
• entering the office/favorite-coffee-shop/public-WiFI-hotspot and the system will move again into free IP-connectivity

Auto roaming allows fring to maintain constant connectivity with its servers to ensure continuous connectivity to the Internet and real-time presence.

Capabilities:

• While active, the application constantly monitors the available wireless channels (GPRS, 3G, CDMA and Wi-Fi) and switches between them automatically based on reception quality. Priority is given to use the free connections over Wi-Fi. Handover between channels is done in idle time (not while in a call) automatically and seamlessly for the user.
• The application will put itself to ‘sleep’ if it identifies that the handset is not active (the screensaver is on). While in ‘sleep’, the application stops communication with the server and doesn’t update the presence information of the subscriber’s buddy list. It listens, however, for incoming signaling from the server on the network.
• Being in active mode, the application performs periodic interaction with its server. During this interaction, the server updates the handset with real-time presence information and status. With the interest of keeping the battery life as long as possible, the application will by-pass presence updating when the handset is moving into screen-saving mode.

Auto roaming: Yet another great addition that will fring in the good times.

Currently Symbian 9 users only. Windows Mobile coming soon

We just couldn’t resist mentioning one of our great admirers, Shelley, an 18 year old lass who emailed us about how she spends some of her weekends in a Border’s book store there and uses the TMobile hot-spot for fringing and browsing the web.

Here’s part of the email Shelley sent us…

Hello!

I wanted to say how excited I am about using fringster on my new Nokia NSeries phone! I come to Borders on the Queens Road in Clifton on weekends to hang out with friends and use fring to chat with some of my family back in Italy. My other friends are so jealous of my Nokia especially all the guys as I can use the Internet on it!Â

Can I get a cool fring t-shirt too maybe, please ?Â

ciao, Shelley

Well, we are excited too Shelley, in fact we want more gorgeous teens to use fring! ;-) ……and yes you can have a fring t-shirt but we want a picture of you in it and at Borders!

Anyone else have any cool photos or stories from places they can use fring from? If so, then send me a mail at shane@fring.com!

Om Malik over at GigaOM has a recent post that 3 UK will soon be launching a £10 per month for 1GB of 3.5G mobile broadband goodness! Too good to be true eh??

Well, the good news is that the plan is called “Broadband Lite” and it has been released!

Head on over to 3 UK and check out their other new data plans as well

On Google Mobile you can,

• Search using Google and it returns a mobile safe version of your search results.
• Perform a mobile web search for sites that have a mobile version of their website.
• Search on images (and add them as a wallpaper)
• Search local listings and get driving directions and map locations
• Access to your Gmail account
• Access to Google Calendar
• Access to local Google news

To those fring users with an HTC P3300 Artemis, S620 Excalibur or Athena Advantage X7500…

As well as enjoying all the benefits of our mobile VoIP service on your device, you can now upgrade your phone to Windows Mobile 6.0 for an even better user experience on the device!!

Credit to the boys at IntoMobile for this scoop.

Happy fringing!

The rumours are true… fring works on your new Sony Ericsson P1i!There are 2 ways to see for yourself:

Some UK users of fring have reported intermittent problems with using Skype. The Register today has confirmed that Skype is having service issues.

The Register: Skype hangs up on users

Are you a Facebook user? If not, then get into it as it is one of the big things in online communities at the moment and it is going off! Facebook is a great way to keep all your friends up to date with what you are currently doing, what you want to do and who to do it with.

Facebook even has a great mobile site so you can see what your friends are up to whilst you are mobile too.

Point your mobile browser at http://m.facebook.com/

Not to mention that fring also has a group on Facebook so get in, join up and share your fringing tidbits with other fringsters.

Just saw this on the ComputerActive site today that Nokia has made an announcement regarding some of their recently manufactured batteries may become defective.

Whilst there has been no serious incidents reported yet it would be a good idea to head over to the special area they have created on their website to see if your Nokia device may have a defective battery.

http://www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/

……and you thought it was fring getting you all hot and steamy! :-p