For the last month, people from all over Europe have been signing up for a chance to win 10,000 EUR and a date with Swedish pop star September. But this is no easy win. Contestants must attempt to be the last remaining dancer on the floor in a 24 hour dance-off, any interference, chat, call and you are out!

On July 7th, 100 lucky European contestants will get to represent their country in the ultimate dance-off. The Samsung Beat DJ mobile phone will provide the soundtrack for the competition which will test contestants’ endurance to its limit.

For decades we’ve delighted in judging Europe on their singing abilities; now lets see how they dance. Hailed as ‘The Eurovision DANCE contest’, The Last Call will push stamina, unveil bizarre local dance moves, and be the one time you don’t want to be popular.

fring is proud to provide live Twitter updates, from the event, using fring’s Twitter 2.0 Add-on, throughout the dance-off. A live video broadcast and the ongoing Twitter updates will be available for you on fring.com.

Watch the action unfold live, here on fring, July 7th.

The fringTEAM

fring’s new WeFi add-on provides you with easy and free access to millions of Wi-Fi hotspots straight from your mobile devices, saving you valuable time looking for somewhere to logon, and providing you with affordable internet access while traveling either locally or internationally, for business or leisure.

To get the new WeFi add-on on your Symbian or Windows Mobile Device, you’d need to download fring’s latest version here. In order to locate and access millions of hotspots in your area, simply subscribe to the WeFi add-on from the add-ons tab within fring and start locating Wi-Fi hotspot closest to you, automatically, using your handset’s GPS, or manually by typing in any address worldwide.

Developers can start creating their own add-on’s today by using fring’s developers site where they’ll find the fring API documentation, code samples and open source add-ons (twitter and last.fm) which they can use to leverage their current web expertise (e.g. PHP, .NET, Java) to create their own mobile internet applications using the same tools they’d use to create any web application.
[Check this YouTube for more details]

The “worlds largest cellphone” currently on display at the MTN Sciencentre in Cape Town is about to take a back seat when it comes to large cellphones. According to Guinness World Records the Sony Ericsson W810i which measures a staggering 2.50 x 1.14 x 0.49 meters is was currently the worlds largest handset. Hold the phone, you mean there is a bigger handset? Yip continue reading… Sadly though for Sony Ericsson this world record is a thing of the past, Samsung together with cricket have just released a new contender for the worlds largset working mobile phone at Fidelity Plaza, Chicago, USA.

According to frings Indian Blogger Frazier: This new Samsung device measures an amazing “15 feet wide by 13 feet tall” wow! your device really is bigger than ours. Congratulations Samsung and crew. P.s Wouldn’t it be great if the next world record handset includes support for fring?

As you guys know, fring is fast becoming the world’s most exciting mobile social community. fringing is literally breaking out in every corner of the globe with fringsters in more than 200 countries. fring is currently available in 14 different languages, with newly launched foreign-language web pages going live all the time.

We recently asked fring’s followers on Twitter & fans of the fring page on Facebook what does “your friends, mobile” sound like in their own language, and the response was great! Here are some examples:

The search is still on for more languages, if you happen to speak any of South Africa’s many Languages please feel free to leave a comment on this blog.

South African Languages we still need:

AFRIKAANS | PORTUGUESE | SEPEDI | SESOTHO | TSONGA | TSWANA | VENDA | XHOSA | ZULU

fringsters everywhere have been asking for it and we are happy to say the day has arrived that we invite the ever popular totally sexy Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic aka Tube to the fring family.

And before we go any further, a big shout out and thanks to those fringsters who were part of the early access group – your feedback has helped us create a fantastic fringing experience, tailor-made for the 5800’s touch screen capability and cool new features.

As most of you probably already know the 5800 comes with “3.2-inch haptic touch-screen, 3.2-megapixel AF camera with dual-LED flash, VGA front camera, A-GPS, HDSPA, and up to 16GB of storage via microSD” the features are so good that some in the industry have gone as far as calling the 5800 XpressMusic the “iPhone killer“ and looking at the amount of requests we received for support, I’d say they were not that far off.

So what are you still waiting for, go get it quick and as usual please let us know what you think

Have fun

The fring team

It was with great excitement that we recently reported that fring had been chosen as one of the Top 10 Mobile Web Products of 2008 by ReadWriteWeb.com

Today readwriteWeb is also calling fring one of the Top 100 products in 2008.

To be included in the Top 100 products of 2008 is a huge honor for everyone here at fring, and we look forward to getting bigger and better in 2009.

The iPhone 3G has recently been getting a lot of attention in South Africa after it’s much anticipated launch at Vodaworld in Midrand late last night.

Another handset that seems to be getting even more attention than the iPhone 3G in the international market at the moment though is the HTC G1, the first handset to be officially running Google’s android software.

The video below introduces Android and talks about the Gphone.