Apple iPhone School » skype chat fring http://www.appleiphoneschool.com Learn how to use, hack and mod the Apple iPhone, iPad & iPod touch Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:33:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.appleiphoneschool.com http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/favicon.ico Apple iPhone School fring http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2008/04/15/fring/ http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2008/04/15/fring/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:32:35 +0000 Douglas http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/?p=3583 fring This app is real Skype for the iPhone, and more. I am testing this app as I write this and so far I have successfully used Skype over wifi and the call worked perfect! You can get more info at Fring.com. fring is available through the fring source.

You can also twitter from this app, ICQ, MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo & AIM.




Watch fring from your iPhone or iPod Touch

As I’m writing this I’m also getting updates from twitter into fring. When you close fring it warns you it’s running in the background, if you don’t want it to you need to hit the exit button instead of the home button when exiting.

Also sometimes it takes a while for your accounts to subsribe, especially if you have the wrong password, just be patient…

It’s seems that when you’re iPhone locks that the app logs you off. I’ve installed fring on Brooke’s iPhone to make a Skype call but since my iPhone is locked I’m not showing up in the buddy list. UPDATE: not sure why it wasn’t working but we are getting twitter updates when the iPhone is locked, even locked for 5+ minutes. This also effected battery to leave running in background.

I’ve tried to make calls through Skype from iPhone to iPhone but haven’t succeded yet :(

Downfalls:
when in skype call, screen does not turn off like in regular call
can’t use speakerphone
doesn’t stay connected when locked (insomnia?)
when making or receiving calls it doesn’t show who the other contact is
voice calls are not supported on edge


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