A new version of fring for Windows Mobile (3.34)

We’re delighted to announce a new version of fring for Windows Mobile devices, including Sony Ericsson’s new super cool Xperia and Samsung Omnia.

In this version, you’ll find the new & improved fring Add-ons – fun, interactive mobile internet apps that sit inside your fring, allowing you to take your Facebook account mobile, receive Gmail notifications and loads more.

Plus, we’ve included our popular File Transfer function – you can now send digital files to all your fring, Skype, MSN & Yahoo buddies at the click of a button.  No need for Bluetooth pairing, no wires, no infrared and no costly MMS charges.  Just select a buddy, click send, and before you can say “Who’s seen my data cable?” the file has been received.

The navigation & functionality have been improved with a new ‘Go- To menu’, Privacy and ‘Joystick-In’ settings, typing indication and new Add-Ons Managment screen, all make the whole fringing experience even smoother.

Finally, if you’re an HTC user, we now support earpiece use, as well, so you can keep your conversations all to yourself.

On a final note, we want to thank our friends at Microsoft for recognizing fring and awarding us their “Designed for Windows Mobile” certification, indicating products that are compatible with Microsoft Windows Mobile powered devices.

These improvements have been brought about in response to fringsters giving us their feedback, and as always, keep ‘em coming!

C u

The fring team.

Add-ons come to minifring

Hey minifringsters

Great news. We’ve just incorporated fring Add-ons into minifring – these cool new mobile internet apps help you get even more out of going mobile with fring.

The first fringAdd-ons now live include Facebook, Gmail notifier, Orkut, vTap and Yandex.mail notifier! Add-ons are available thanks to us opening up fring to brainy developers out there via the recently released fringAPI and we’re expecting all kinds of mobile games, tools, and cool new services to be available from the fring Add-ons catalog coming soon. You can keep an eye on developments and what’s new in the catalogue inside minifring itself or on the web.

To get fringAdd-ons, SE user need to click More > Settings > Manage add-ons & Nokia users need to click on Options > Settings > Manage add-ons.

All is available through the latest version of minifring.

And if there’s an app you’re just itching to take mobile, let us know or find a developer of your own to mobilize your favorite web apps for us all to enjoy via fring!
As always, let us know what you think and how we can further help you go mobile!

Have fun!

The fringTEAM

Mashable.com: Open web awards - Voting now open

The Mashable.com open web awards offers a unique opportunity for the most accomplished websites and services to receive international recognition for their achievements.

During the recent nominations round, over 43,000 verified nominations were received. The hard working guys over at Mashable.com have now narrowed down the huge pool to the 10 most-nominated sites and services in each category.

fring is happy to announce we have made the top ten in the category “mobile applications”. A huge thank you to everyone who nominated fring during stage one. Stage two of the open web awards has just gone live.

Using the widget below, please cast a vote for your favorite mobile application Awards

The Crunchies 2008 Awards - Nominate your favorite app

fringsters the time has come to once again nominate your favorite mobile application for a prestigious award. Following the success of the 2007 Crunchies awards, nominations are now open for the 2008 awards.

“Readers are invited to nominate their favorite product or company in each of the fifteen award categories. Readers can vote once a day until nominations end Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Midnight PST.

Five finalists will be selected for each award category and popular voting will run from December 15 – January 5, 2009 Midnight PST. The winners will be announced live at the award ceremony on January 9 in San Francisco.”

Let the nominations begin.

Update: new version for 2.2 iPhone/iPod touch firmware

Hi,

We have just released a new version for iPhone and iPod touch. This version (1.0.2.4) should fix the connection issues on the new 2.2 firmware.
Also on this version: French localization and bug fixes based on your feedback.

To get it, simply download the update from App Store.

And as always, we’d love to get your comments.

fringing ad trials

Hey guys

fring now has millions of fringsters covering the globe and as we grow up we want to make sure that fring remains free to download, free to use for all of our fringsters forever!

So, in line with our biz strategy, we’re about to trial the new fring ads program.

We wanted to give you the heads-up, as you may soon see small clickable advertising banners in the fring chat window, beneath the chat itself. Clicking the ad will open your browser and take you to the advertiser’s site; you may even find extra special offers, cool promos & other nice surprises behind the click from time to time And, more clicks mean happy advertisers; and happy advertisers mean more resources for us to develop cool new stuff for you to play with in fring!

We’re starting the ad trials with just a small number of randomly selected fringsters each day and we’ve worked hard to make sure that your fringing experience isn’t affected in any way, but as always, we’re really keen to hear your feedback.

The fring team