Windows Mobile Support Added to Fring

As the world of mobile VoIP gets increasingly smaller, it looks like you’ll be able to use more and more mobile devices for VoIP service. Fring has recently announced that Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 have recently been added to the list of compatible devices for mVoIP. What does that mean? It means that more than a 300 different phones and PDAs sporting windows mobile are now ready to go with Mobile VoIP protocols. Google Talk, Skype, MSN, and Fring now work on all of them and that’s never a bad thing.

It’s a service that will turn hundreds of Windows Mobile PDAs without SIM cards into fully functional phones via VoIP service. Internet access via the WiFi cards on these devices makes it possible to leverage VoIP service, including everything from multiple live chat sessions to standard phone calls via Skype or other SIP based VoIP services.

Fring itself is an application designed for use with mobile phones to roam for free between wireless networks on GPRS, 3G or WiFi services. It’s a free download and offers multiple IM and SIP options from the same contact list. It’s essentially the wonder app for your mobile device and has been making major waves with mobile VoIP in recent months. The program offers additional options such as real time availability to help you choose the option that will work best, cheapest, and most efficiently.

To get Fring, you must simply download the service from their website or have it SMS messaged to you from a friend. It’s a largely considered one of the easiest and most user friendly apps around for use with mobile VoIP and with the addition of Windows mobile access is clearly trying to get itself into more and more markets.

Besides the Windows Mobile handsets, you can also use Fring with Nokia 60, N70, N80, N90, E60, and E70 series phones.  

Avi Shechter, Co-founder and CEO, fring stated: “fring is excited to let Windows Mobile users leverage fully integrated VoIP & multiple IM experience enabling calls, chat and real time presence via their mobile device’s internet capabilities, previously only possible on their PC. Like all fringsters, Windows Mobile users now have real mobile independence to make VoIP calls at no extra cost with rich presence indicators and hold multiple live chat sessions with their mobile, PC and landline contacts all from one integrated contact list”.