Use your cell phone and Fring to call the world free or cheap

Thursday, November 26, 2009

 

VOIP (Fring + Skype or Gizmoproject)

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If you happen to have a cell phone that is powered by Symbian or Windows, you can download and install fring. Fring enables you use your phone’s data connectivity to make Skype calls or Gizmoproject calls.  You can also use the wi-fi free zones in many cities and malls throughout the Philippines and wimax is becoming more common too.
Data rates of Smart, Globe and Sun are currently priced at P10 per 30 minutes or about P0.33/minute.     Calls from a Skype account to a United States number is priced at US$0.02 per minute. That’s about P1.29 per minute using the fring + Skype combo on your mobile network. All you need is a PayPal account to purchase Skype credits. To know more about Skype and it’s call rates, visit their official website.

Skype is on fringe already and so is gizmo project and yahoo messenger,but you do have to have a free account with them so if you don’t have already, just go to their websites and sign up for an account before signing into fring.

Gizmoproject http://gizmo5.com/pc/
 
 
Fring Launches Video VoIP for Mobile Phones

From the NY Times Fring, which started out offering a VoIP client for mobile phones has added the ability to make and receive video calls from mobile phones, letting you see your friends as you talk to them - for free.

As with the VoIP client, you have to be a Fring user, or "fringster," as CEO Avi Schechter calls them, to download the video client. Fringsters can then talk to friends outside of Fring via various services, including Skype, Twitter, Facebook, last.fm, Google Talk, and AIM through a combined friend list. Fring makes money through banner ads and other advertising mechanisms.

Schechter says the ads are not very intrusive. Fringsters can use the mobile client to live chat, update profiles, and share files.

Continue reading here
http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2009/11/25/25venturebeat-fring-launches-video-voip-for-mobile-44459.html

Get the download here http://www.fring.com/download/

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