Fring enables iPhone-to-Android videoconferencing, boosting network impact | Unfiltered

Let the video calling begin. While the new iPhones Facetime application promised to open up the mobile videoconferencing market — and threaten yet another deluge on operator 3G networks — todays news that Fring has come out with a video app that can do calls between iPhone and Android users.

Information Week reported on the development:

One of the iPhone 4's coolest features is FaceTime, Apple's two-way video chatting software. Apple's software is nearly flawless and works so easily that it should help video chatting become much more mainstream. It has several limitations: it only works over Wi-Fi, and it only works with other iPhone 4s. Want to video chat with your friend, who uses an Android phone? Fring has your back.

Fring has been offering Internet-based messaging and video chat to smartphone platforms for a while now. The latest version, which works with iOS4 on both the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3GS, provides iPhone users unrestricted two-way video calling over Wi-Fi or 3G internet with other iPhone, Android or Symbian devices.

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