Quick Tip: Make VoIP calls on the iPhone

by Jessica Dolcourt

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Shiny and glossy just like the iPhone itself is Fring, a relative newcomer to the VoIP-plus-IM communicator scene. Crowning itself the first true mobile VoIP solution for Apple's dream phone, Fring works with Skype, SIP, MSN Messenger (Windows Live Messenger), ICQ, Google Talk, Twitter, and Yahoo, though some of those services are clearly chat-only. CNET Executive Editor Tom Merritt shows you how to get started with Fring on your jailbroken iPhone in this Quick Tip video. If you like the program, you can still recommend Fring to friends who have to make do with merely Symbian, UIQ, and Windows Mobile phones (review).

Topics:: Chat and e-mail,; Mobile Software

Tags:: Quick Tip,; Fring,; VoIP,; Skype

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by carlgage May 20, 2008 4:34 PM PDT: Does Fring work for WiFi enabled phones? If so, which ones? I'm considering T-Mobile's Dash by HTC.
Thanks!
Carl Gage
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by slangers May 21, 2008 4:15 AM PDT: on my iphone it works great. i have been using for almost a month with msn and skype. the interface is very clean and easy to use. though chat function can be time consuming using the iphone's keyboard. i have used it to call other country's and it worked great. some issue with feedback but over all it was better than using msn voice chat on my pc; Reply to this comment