fring now supports SIP

fring, that I posted about before, now does SIP. Their site title says “Mobile VoIP application for cellular handsets”. And the “about” page title is “About fring 3G, GPRS and Wi-Fi mobile voice over IP cellular application”. Nice SEO and keyword targeting going on, but still too nerdy to care. I continue to exercise my liberty to not believe in SIP being a consumer proposition at all. But Unicode is nice. And I still don’t have a phone to try any of this out. (This is not a hint, I don’t want one either. Maybe I’ll buy an iPhone when it launches. The phone market is like PC market these days, too noisy for anything except Apple stuff to shine through.)

Hi Jaanus,
We saw your past blog about fring mVoIP (http://www.jaanuskase.com/en/2006/11/fringfreecallsonyour3gha.html) and thought you might be interested in an update on our product development.
fring now supports SIP - meaning you can now use your SIP provider to make calls through fring! The GizmoProject, VoipCheap, VoipStunt and Free World DialUp will automatically be listed on the fring client, and you can also configure other SIP providers very easily just with your user name, password and SIP proxy.
BTW: As far as we know, fring is the FIRST to enable SIP…even on non-SIP handsets!!!!
This all means that fringsters can now communicate between fring, Skype, GoogleTalk, MSN and SIP-based applications over VoIP, GSM, WiFi and PSTN networks.
We’re not yet official launching this SIP capability – we’d like to gather some feedback from users first… so if you have any thoughts, ideas or suggestions, please send them to me at jon ‘at’ fring.com. Also contact me or visit our blog if you want more information.
Thanks for your interest in fring – and happy fringing!
Jon (jon ‘at’ fring.com)
p.s. Responding to appreciated feedback, we have also added Unicode and fixed some other bugs, including making sure blocked MSN contacts stay blocked.