Comments on: Fring – Skype on my symbian phone .. AT LAST!!

By: Usaff Hassan

Usaff Hassan — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:11:25 +0000

yes

By: Usaff Hassan

Usaff Hassan — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:11:25 +0000

yes

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:06:53 +0000

It’s amazing program

By: Rykel

Rykel — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:54:26 +0000

and so if iSkoot uses voice channel, then it goes back to square one – we STILL need a voice line to make calls. this poses a problem for providers like in my country where the voice SIM and data plan SIM are 2 separate cards.

Fring is better – anything that uses voice channel is duh!

By: bharath

bharath — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:11:24 +0000

Thanks for the post!
I was looking for some reason to buy a wifi enabled phone.
This seems the best reason.

BTW, can you suggest which one to get?
W960 or N95 8GB?

By: scott

scott — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:46:38 +0000

since iskoot goes through the voice channel and notvia the data the voice quality is much higher and there is no dependency on wifi, hot spot or any data plan

By: abhishta

abhishta — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:21:32 +0000

iSkoot connects to their server and retrieves your contacts using data access points. But when you actually call one of your contacts, it routes this call through a phone number. So the actual call you make is not through a data connection.

By: Himanshu

Himanshu — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:57:16 +0000

Well, not really. iSkoot also asks for an access point so it can too work over edge, 3g or wi-fi.

Funnily my office also has got little cell coverage but for the life of me, I cant get my E61 to connect to wifi on office (as they use some crazy security logic tied to our Windows domain using 3rd party tool Odyssey). It would be Supercool if that were to work…

By: abhishta

abhishta — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:35:21 +0000

The main difference between iskoot and fring is that fring works over your data connection, like edge, 3g or wi-fi. iskoot calls a phone number.
My office gets no cell coverage at all, so I prefer an app like fring, which I can use over wi-fi.

By: Himanshu

Himanshu — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:12:55 +0000

I has installed iSkoot for this purpose and it seems alright. I have MGtalk for GTalk but the idea of have a common application supporting both these popular chat apps (and specially so if the Voice part for BOTH works well as MGtalk seems to be only able to handle the text chat part of GTALK but not the voice chat)