iPhone fring App Brings 3G Video Calls
Sat, 07/10/2010 - 10:34
fring is a popular free app for staying in touch with friends through their own service as well as a host of others, including Skype, MSN Messenger, GoogleTalk, AIM, Twitter and more. After blazing their own trail with incoming video for fring or Skype calls with a previous version, the developer has kicked things up several notches by adding two-way video calls and more.
The best part is that you can do video calls with any other fring or Skype user, regardless of what device they have -- and that includes fring on Google’s Android, as well as any iPhone. Of course, you’ll both need iPhone 4 or Skype with a webcam in order to see both parties, but it’s far less limited than Apple’s own FaceTime.
That isn’t to say that it’s a perfect experience, unfortunately. Gizmodo claims “there was some lag, voice quality wasn’t perfect and video was sometimes jittery,” but they loved the experience just the same. The good news is that the experience is largely the same over both 3G and Wi-Fi.
