Fring, a free iPhone application, provides video chat on the iPhone 3GS.
As the one iPhone camera points away from the display, Fring cannot function as a video-calling device on which callers can show themselves while seeing the other party: face-to-face video conferencing requires front-facing cameras.
What Fring can do is deliver the “here is what I am seeing” experience, showing the person you are talking with what is in front of you during the call.
Like other VoIP iPhone apps, Fring functions only over Wi-Fi, as AT&T restricts such calls over its 3G network.
Ramat Gan, Israel-based Fring also provides voice-over IP software for Nokia Symbian and Windows phones.
December 7, 2009
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