WOW that's a lot of money. I have had the opportunity to try Fring several times. Worked ok, not great, but ok. Unfortunately no version for BlackBerry. I am not sure about Fring's future. Mobile voice will soon become a commodity, consumers will become less sensitive to price and mobile operators will make more money out of data subscription than voice. Fring requires a download which is a big break for massive adoption compared to download free solutions like Jajah or Rebtel. One big plus is there compatibility with Skype which does not have still any mobile version.
Did you try it? what did you think?
update: my colleagues at TechCrunch have just covered the news. On the advise on a reader i have tried iSkoot for Skype on Blackberry. It is free and works fantastic (better user experience than IM+ for Skype)
Used it,works fantastic, I can use sip Ac, Skype,Msn,GoogleTalk quality is good plus Twitter
Only drawback is $500 phones only, same as all the rest on that issue.
Posted by: Pat Phelan | 09 August 2007 at 10:44 PM
Great app !
Tried it on Symbian devices and reviewed it.
Posted by: Greg | 10 August 2007 at 12:33 PM
Unfortunatly I can't try it (blackberry too).
But I use iSkoot on my BB and works perfectly I can chat with Skype and make call with Skype too!
Posted by: Alexandre | 10 August 2007 at 04:12 PM
iSkoot is indeed pretty amazing. just intalled it and is way better than IM+ for skype i had until now
Posted by: ouriel | 10 August 2007 at 04:47 PM
Le seul soucis avec iSkoot c'est la lenteur (sur un 8800). Sinon j'en suis ravis!
Posted by: Alexandre | 10 August 2007 at 07:03 PM
Its a great small app. Only problem is it isnt supporting yahoo! Messenger.
Posted by: Adam benayou | 11 August 2007 at 07:20 AM
Tried Fring, couldn't make it work, stuck with Rebtel, which doesn't give you the presence or integration with IM (but i never IM on a phone keyboard anyway) and works on e v e r y phone. iSkoot doesn't do it either for me. Buggy, crashes. So Rebtel it is until something more basic and reliable comes along. With the improvement in browsers on Nokia much more is possible without Fring's app. And it's the main reason why I switched from Blackberry to an E61i.
Posted by: alex de jong | 11 August 2007 at 09:49 AM
I wasn't aware that Fring was Israeli!
If you're familiar with Nimbuzz, they're planning on allowing voice calls to Skype in the near future. At present, IM with skype works fine and calls within Nimbuzz's network works.
Eqo, another mobile application, broke off as a Skype plugin and now operate independantly within their own network. They have calls at Skypeout rates, which is interesting.
I blogged about both here: http://www.liron.de/blog/?p=453
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