Fring: VOIP on iPhone--live blog tryout

Sorry to say i've just uninstalled Fring. I have to admit i really enjoyed the app while i had it installed but it was causing too many issues. I cant prove that Fring was the cause but i can tell you that these issues only came up after i installed it.

First thing is that it deleted all my sms history. Which really annoyed me because i do a lot of mobile banking. I thought it could be a one time on-install problem but my SMS history has been disappearing every few days.

Second is that immediately after installing Fring, a few of my older apps went haywire. SmartRSS was one of them which is an app i value over Fring.

Dont get me wrong Fring is great and i would very much consider installing it again when a more reliable version comes out.

what is voip?

@ c01dphu510n Thanks I thought it was only me. Cool application but I hope they can fix this.

@c01dphu510n My text messages are being deleted too...this sucks....

Has anyone lost *all* of their text messages since installing fring?

Useless. I uninstalled, this is not even an early alpha quality. It is more like an early S/M quality.

Choppy is an understatement, too frustrating for me at this stage.

http://www.simplyfreeiphone.co.uk

Check out this You Tube video of Fring on the iPhone:

http://mailbysnail.tumblr.com/

It took about four attempts of 5 minutes each on my ipwned 1.1.4 iPhone, but I eventually got it to work with gTalk, AIM and both SkypeIn & SkypeOut. A pain but once it connects the first time, it seems pretty locked in.
SkypeOut in my contact list worked fine. The secret to making it work from the dial pad is to make sure to hit the + key followed by the national code before dialing the rest of the numbers.
There's a definite delay (I didn't feel like it was more than a second) that will keep me from ditching my dedicated Skype handset for the time being, but it's a great start nonethless.

two questions Erica:

firstly, in the intro you said that you could find apps via their xml in the installer adress.....how exactly is this done? downloading apps to my mac and then unzipping them there and SFTPing them to the phone is one of my biggest wishes (i don't quite get why you invest the effort of sending them to the phone zipped and unzipping them there, is it just the nerd factor of being able to do that or is there an actual reason? :P

seondly, when i use the app, my skype, AIM And other data never gets stored, as soon as i signed off a service (not even the app itself) the fields are empty again ... is that normal or do i have to set some permissions, if yes, where, cause i didnt find a folder with the apps name under library or media :(

thanks in advance


Norman