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Fring
I tried Fring the other day and was generally quite impressed. However, there are a few issues that bother me.
It's cool that Fring supports Google Talk, but why can't I log in to any other XMPP server? Maybe I just did something wrong but I did not manage to sign into my jabber.co.za account at all. It's all the same protocol standard anyway so what's the difference? (I actually saw that this was asked before but got no replies.)
Then, the Twitter support... Basically it handles Twitter like any other chat window. Sure I want to have the phone make noise when I receive an actual private message but I don't want to have that for each incoming Twitter message too! My contacts are far too busy for that. I quickly disabled Twitter.
When using the "Fring Me" widget, because my phone doesn't have GPS now it won't display my location on the map. Why not just use triangulation?
Although the Skype support can sometimes be slow when logging on, I loved the ability to use VoIP from the phone!!
As a last thought, when are we getting a public REST API?
Copyright © 2004-2009 Charl van Niekerk. All articles are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa licence, unless where otherwise stated.
1 Comments
Comment by
SimonB on Monday, April 28, 2008 10:57:00 AM
Hey Charl,
Thanx for the great feedback and comments always received. Will forward this link onto fring.
Take Care
SimonB
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