Fring, the free mobile VoIP service that works just like Skype, is now available for Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile 6 smartphones. Get ready for some free mobile phone calls.
Here is a look at Fring for WinMo smartphones:
Fring allows users to make free VoIP phone calls and conduct multiple live chat sessions through Skype, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, and many other SIP service providers, according to the company.
Fringland says its mobile VoIP client enables “WiFi enabled but SIM-less” Windows Mobile PDAs to function as open VoIP phones, using either WiFi hot spots or 3G cellular data services for access to the Internet.
For you Windows Mobile users out there curious to check out Fring, you can download the client here.
As most of my geek friends know, in the past I’ve pointed out how quickly free peer-to-peer VoIP services were moving to smartphones.
Yeah, but all those services are for the Symbian Operating System. So what? What about Java?
Another service, called Vyke, offers a Java-based mobile VoIP, so that base is already covered and with Fring on WinMo, it’s just a matter of time until other free VoIP services are available for any mobile platform.
OK, that’s great for consumers but what about business users?
While large enterprises are not likely to adopt services like Fring, you can bet small and medium-sized businesses will.
Speaking from personal experience, my friends and I all use Skype on our laptops for internal communications, especially when we are on business trips abroad. I can easily see many small business employees also adopting Fring for their Treos.
As for the enterprise, I can easily see vendors currently touting unified communications and Enterprise 2.0 adding P2P VoIP to their platforms pretty soon.
After all, P2P VoIP is one of the key apps of Web 2.0. Enterprises are moving rapidly to replicate Web 2.0 flexibility in their organizations.
Once vendors add P2P VoIP and presence to corporate desktops, they’ll add it to corporate smartphones too.
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- The iPhone Is Not A Smartphone, And Nokia Knows IT | June 25, 2007
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