Fring brings video calls to the iPhone and iPod Touch

Filed under: VoIP, Social Software, iPhone

Fring is a mobile chat service that's available on a lot of devices and allows for both IM and voice chat. Recently, the folks at Fring have stepped up their game and started to offer mobile video chat, too, which leads to their big announcement this week: now you can video chat on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Your buddies don't necessarily have to have Fring to chat. Since Fring plugs into several different chat services, Skype calls are supported, too. So far, video chat only goes one way on the iPhone, because the camera is in the back.

Understandably, that makes things a bit impractical when you want to see your friend and be seen at the same time. On the other hand, you can now make mobile calls to a friend with webcam and see her face, which is more than you could do on the iPhone before.

If you want two-way video calling, it's already available via Fring on some Nokia devices.

Fring brings video calls to the iPhone and iPod Touch originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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