News admin on 04 Apr 2009 06:24 am
iPhone new version in the App Store Now
Just a quick shout to let all of you iPhone & iPod touch fringsters know that there’s a new version of fring in the App Store with some extra functionality you guys asked for, providing an even smoother fringing experience.
You can now choose whether to show or hide your Offline contacts and regular GSM buddies. And for convenience, we’ve moved fring settings to the general iPhone settings, so there’s no need to open fring each time you want to make a small change.
You’ll also notice a small flag symbol in the top left hand corner of the dialer screen, Tap this and you’ll get a list of countries. Select the one you’re calling and the International dial code will automatically be entered making overseas Skype Out and SIP calls even easier.
We’re also just finishing off a notification add-on for this version. This add-on will notify you when your friends are trying to connect with you whilst your fring is closed. This of course includes all the different services (Skype, MSN, Google talk etc)
To make this as useful as possible, we are conducting a gradual roll-out, starting with the UK and US. This service will eventually be in line with Apple’s 3.0 firmware and new notification feature.
You can download fring’s new version here.
Continue to give us your great feedback, and we’ll continue to make fring even better!
[Update]: For thos of you who can not find the privacy settings… We moved the settings screen to the iPhone’s main settings menu. So just click on ‘Settings’ from the main springborad -> scroll down -> fring.
on 04 Apr 2009 at 6:58 am 1.Kuda said …
We need Fring for Google phones. Your fasination with iPhones is understandable but the Google Platform will out number iPhones in less than 1 year. the android community is growing and the amount of phones expected this year are numerous from ALL the major manufacturers like Matorola, Samsung, HP, Dell etc etc.
Please fring we need you on G1
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on 04 Apr 2009 at 6:58 am 2.Errol Nazareth said …
Hi, this is totally great! but i think it would be more cool to have the same features on the normal symbian phones…esp the hide offline contacts….
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on 04 Apr 2009 at 7:14 am 3.phukhed said …
The SIP and Skype functions could be better. I love fring but the latency over sip is terrible. Nimbuzz and SipPhone fixed that for me tho. All in all I love fring.
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on 04 Apr 2009 at 10:19 am 4.dyrenr said …
hi folks ,,well i just update to the new fring ,,i mean i like it,,,but i thnk u okes can do much much better job,,can even beat skype big time,,
i love fring,,buy somethings i ws thnking u guys can do,,,like skype,PICTURES,UPDATE STATUS,,ALL THAT STUF,,U GUYS CAN DO IT,,pls,,next update ,,,pls,pls i beg u okes,,pls,,
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on 04 Apr 2009 at 7:52 pm 5.lrd said …
Great! Don’t waste your time programming for Google’s Android & Symbian platforms. These are dead end platforms. For example, if Android is so good why aren’t there any other Android phones? And Symbian’s base code will need to be completely revamped to compete against the iPhone.
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Jason Reply:
May 5th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
What kind of a comment is that?. The iPhone is a toy. If it was any good i would have bought one a long time ago. The only phone in the world where you can’t remove the battery, what will you do when your battery can’t take a charge anymore?. Oh, and don’t forget all the other bad things about this iCrap. Symbian and Nokia will always be better so be quiet fan boy.
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Nuno Lopes Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Don’t want to start a flame war here, but stating that the iPhone is a toy can only come from ignorance.
Having owned several winmo’s (HTC Diamond, HTC HD etc) and Symbian (Sony Ericsson W600i, i68 etc) I can say that the iPhone is less of a toy then any other phone I’ve had.
Indeed is the first phone that I can use every single feature every single day since it works smoothly and 99.999% flawlessly.
Cheers, Nuno
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on 04 Apr 2009 at 8:55 pm 6.Fringer said …
There is a bug in this release. Privacy settings have disappeared
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on 04 Apr 2009 at 10:21 pm 7.Marcus Kabele said …
The privacy settings have disappeared. (iPod touch 1G)
There are still still wrong statements in your help, that state, that fring doesn’t work with iPod touch 1G.
Fring works great with an external microphone (macally).
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on 05 Apr 2009 at 12:24 pm 8.omri said …
For thos of you who can not find the privacy settings… We moved the settings screen to the iPhone’s main settings menu. So just click on ‘Settings’ from the main springborad -> scroll down -> fring.
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on 06 Apr 2009 at 11:30 am 9.SHOAIB said …
Dear Team,
Thanks very much for this great updation.
NOW I NEED ALWAYS-ON FRING or BACK GROUND RUNNER FRING.
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on 06 Apr 2009 at 3:06 pm 10.rafael said …
The latest update has been an improvement for the previous buggy version. Now I can login smoothly.. I like the alert sound but couldn’t it be better if a user has an option to disable both alert and/or vibrate? Just not a mature update yet. Hope more options and features from Fring! thanks…
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on 06 Apr 2009 at 5:30 pm 11.fring » Feature highlight: Always-on said …
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on 08 Apr 2009 at 5:13 pm 17.simon said …
i like Fring.
but i’d like it better without echo/delay over SIP&VOIP calls. with a touchtone dialer available during a call. and with background operating capability. thanks for improving it.
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on 09 Apr 2009 at 2:49 am 18.bagheera said …
My VOIP has not work since I upgrade to the new fring version. And I can’t figure out why?
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on 09 Apr 2009 at 8:23 am 19.maximiliano said …
hi,
it’s ok! but …. situation …
iPhone 2G JB and fring and Backgrounder enabled! it’s all ok! but when i receive a mess or a call and iPhone is in sleep mode i listen the ring but qhen i open the iPhone why fring dont show me a red little ball (like mail) to show me that there a mess or a lost call????
best regards!
-max
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on 09 Apr 2009 at 8:28 am 20.maximiliano said …
and please !!! find a solution for background!!! .. I have a question … iPhone 2G JB firmaware 1.1.4 and first version of fring! u know that fring works in background? yes really! end with wi-fi and EDGE connections. and when iPhone was in sleep and someone send me a mess i open the iPhone and fring show me a red little ball to alert me that there is a mess!!!! now iPhone 2G JB firmware 2.2.1 doesnt working!! i cant understand! if u move on all things are doing better, but u come back … :O
-max
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on 10 Apr 2009 at 4:25 am 21.New Fring on the App Store now | Inside iPhone said …
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on 10 Apr 2009 at 11:17 pm 22.Sabrina said …
We need buddy info!! For aim!!
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on 13 Apr 2009 at 10:25 am 23.wenkang said …
Just encountered and noticed that the web address received via Fring is not any active link that user can click on it to go to the website. I see this as a basic and convenient function to have in Fring.
Secondly, can we have Facebook chat in Fring too?
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on 19 Apr 2009 at 12:26 am 24.akos said …
you guys are on a suicide mission if you think anyone would seriously consider even just partially replace normal cell phone network connections with yours,….if you are not going to fix this absolutely absurd “being switched on” feature…
who in their right frame of mind wants to get an email in order to see if someone is just trying to call him ??
if you go out there and advertise an “always ON” feature, than damn have your software actually be “always “ON” in the background for example, and let your software freaking ring when someone is calling… so i can pick up and talk to that person.even if its not in the foreground.
its like getting a fax from someone so i am notified that “NOW” someone is going to be calling me on my landline.
how about firing that guy at your shop who came up with this utterly useless idea?!?!
these things are technically easily do-able guys…
go and get the bussiness you deserve, for your idea is a great one, but pleeaassee do not get sloppy right now, sooooooo short before you can win this VOIP thing race
sincerely
akos
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on 19 Apr 2009 at 3:15 pm 25.bill said …
does fring mess up your iphone,ipod touch or phone that u r calling
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on 23 Apr 2009 at 6:43 pm 26.ziyad said …
Dear Fring, I would like to thank you for your really wonderful fring on my iPhone. I would like to ask you if you can add any or both of sms messaging and real caller ID on next fring since those feature exist in VOIP like lowrate and actionVoip and i use them from my laptop thru their client.
anyway, thanks for all your efforts and wish you more success.
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on 23 Apr 2009 at 6:45 pm 27.ziyad said …
also, dont you have a fring client to run SIP accounts from PC not phone ?
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on 24 Apr 2009 at 7:51 pm 28.Mediumjones said …
Working great, much smoother connections and stable Skype calls! (Better than the Skype app anyways) Thanks for the update…
I think the next most important feature would be to include touch tone dialpad during calls. This is very important for Google voice users and anyone that wants to check their voice mail with fring.
Thanks again, keep up the great work!
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on 27 Apr 2009 at 5:18 pm 29.Vidhi Raj said …
The new version is quite useless since it doesnot address the following problems:
1) iPhone users ( unlike Symbian phone users like Nokia E71) still can’t make voice calls using the GPRS on their phones
2) In Fring for iPhone there is no way to delete the Call History , so if your spouse or frends are browsing through your FRING They will know who you spoke to and when and how many times. Shame shame. You can delete this history in the Symbain version
3) This is a big shame that on privacy FRING has not done much. In any of the FRING version, there is no Password protection. What I mean is that they must enable Fring launch thru a unique password, which should enable the user to USE FRING. a lot of times, if someone gets my phone, all they need to do is click on FRING and they are able to USE it. This should be prevented.
I hope you guys are listening.
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omri Reply:
April 28th, 2009 at 8:40 am
Hi,
1. Voice calls over 3G/GPRS is something that is not permitted by Apple. There’s not much we can do about it. Sorry.
2. The ‘Clear history’ function was added to this version as requested by many users. See screenshot above.
3. The iPhone version works just like the other versions: You have your fring user name and password, you register once and fring should always remember the password unless you uninstall of course. I understand what you’re saying, we’ll consider it for future versions.
4. Yes, we’re always here, listening
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on 29 Apr 2009 at 7:42 am 30.Dan said …
I would love to know my Skype credit balance, but i guess that’s limited to skype itself right? but if you guys are able to, knowing one’s skype balance would be great!
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on 03 May 2009 at 2:36 am 31.baki999 said …
thanks
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on 04 May 2009 at 8:22 am 32.muhammad bilal said …
hey team thank you so much for this new feature but i also have an ipod touch and i already have this feature installed on it, but the problem with that is i can hear ppl through the ipod touch speaker but ipod touch doesnt have a microphone. so how woudl i use this feature on ipod touch so that they can hear me aswell
thankyou
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on 05 May 2009 at 5:30 pm 33.Stephen Peszel said …
Buy the headphones and mic for the iPhone, works well.
Looks just like the normal white iPod phones and the mic is discrete.
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on 05 May 2009 at 5:34 pm 34.Manuel said …
Speaker phone would be an easy and very nice feature to use
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on 06 May 2009 at 2:06 pm 35.Jakir said …
Hi
fring team my mobile nokia 6230 model if i download fring version so that i calls.. let me know…Jakir
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on 08 May 2009 at 3:43 pm 36.Amir said …
will this work on the iphone 1st generation phone running 1.1.4?
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omri Reply:
May 10th, 2009 at 8:10 am
No, the iPhone version is only available for firmware 2.0 and above and only through the App Store.
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on 09 May 2009 at 7:52 pm 37.Charitydp87 said …
I hate fring on iPhone calls only work when you’re connected 2 wifi. Nokia didn’t had that problem.
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omri Reply:
May 10th, 2009 at 8:10 am
This is a restriction from Apple. Not much we can do about it.
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on 11 May 2009 at 3:26 am 38.PatricMan said …
Always-on fring for iPhone - But after clicking the confirmation link, following message is displayed:
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://62.219.7.73:90/Validate.aspx?
The following error was encountered:
* Access Denied.
Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.
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on 15 May 2009 at 6:23 pm 39.Flavio said …
Please, the only missing thing now is the possibility to enter and/or stay with a different status, rather than online. And also block the contacts. To be always on, even if other app is open, is sth I really wish too. Thanks a lot! Flavio/in Brazil
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on 21 May 2009 at 5:59 am 40.Spicy iPhone » Blog Archive » New Fring on the App Store now said …
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on 16 Jun 2009 at 7:07 pm 41.Nuno Lopes said …
Home the next version comes with push notification for the iPhone (soon). I don’t use Fring (or any IMs) becouse they have to be running all the time in order to work as they are suppose. The locks the use of the phone to a single application (can’t browse, send a twit, play a game etc at the same time).
Also the SIP feature of fring is not that good, hope it can be improved.
Great work so far. Congrats.
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on 05 Aug 2009 at 11:21 am 42.jo said …
Can we install smart voip on Nokia E51 through fring?
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on 15 Oct 2009 at 11:38 am 43.PleinAir said …
I just installed the latest version last night and while I find it great, I can’t hide my disappointment of finding out that one still can’t use the dialpad during a fring call. How many times does a user have to navigate through an automated system to check voice mail or call a person in an office? All that is needed is to be able to produce a tone of a particular pitch and intensity when the user presses a key on the dialpad. That shouldn’t be very hard, should it? If it hasn’t been done yet, there must be a reason. Does anyone know it?
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on 09 Dec 2009 at 7:51 am 44.tiguy said …
is fring work on i68+
Thank’s
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on 05 May 2011 at 10:03 am 45.faiz said …
i use iphone 2g 3.1.2, i wanna know that can i make 2 way video calls? i can see the other persn is there any chance that i can make 2 way vide calls??
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