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I’ve had an amazing little app on my phone for a while, but haven’t really got into it much. I found it when I was trying to get Skype for the Symbian OS on my N95. It’s called Fring and it also works with MSN and Yahoo! among others.
I’ve received a couple of incoming Skype chats, which is actuall bit irritating as you can’t turn them off and, unless I have my nokia keyboard with me, it’s a bit fiddly to key chat messages on a phone keypad.
But it rang for the first time recently, and I could see it was a call from a customer in South Africa. We often talk on Skype, and we’ve spent a lot of time sorting out various phone systems together, but this is the first time it had rang through on my mobile.
Call quality was excellent. I don’t know whether it routing through my wifi connection or GPRS, so I’m going to test an outward call when I’m away from wifi.
He asked me to call him back on another phone to test whether it take two lines.
I called him from a VOIP phone to a local number. He also has a VOIP phone, but has his calls redirected to Skype and through to a local number in South Africa. And all this on one ear, while at the other ear, he was calling me from his Skype to my Skype, which was routed through Fring to my mobile. What would Alexamder Graham Bell think of that?
So I’ve established that Fring allows me to take my Skype calls on my mobile, for no extra cost. So now I’m going to try and detup my Voip service to ring on it too. I’ll probably need a bigger battery, but hell, it’ll be cool
http://www.fring.com/
