{"id":45246,"date":"2009-11-19T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/mobilecontenttoday\/android\/fring_for_android_picks_up_the_voice_over_ip_slack_for_that_platform_143649.asp?c=rss"},"modified":"2009-11-19T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T08:45:00","slug":"fring-for-android-picks-up-the-voice-over-ip-slack-for-that-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/45246","title":{"rendered":"fring for Android Picks Up the Voice over IP Slack for That Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Cy0WWgipkUw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Cy0WWgipkUw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<em>YouTube video courtesy of fringland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Android smartphone ecosystem has changed a lot (and for the better) between my brief T-Mobile G1 ownership period in October 2008 and today. While the Android app population is nowhere near the size of the iPhone&#8217;s, it is big enough and rich enough to keep things interesting. One big hole, though, is the lack of a decent Skype VoIP client. And, don&#8217;t get me started on that <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\/intl\/en\/download\/skype\/skypelite\/\">Skype Lite<\/A> thing for Android. I don&#8217;t even know what to make of it.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, even though Skype appears to be ignoring Android, fring is not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.fring.com\/blog\/?p=1735\">fring it on Android!<\/A><\/p>\n<p>And, fring can apparently make VoIP calls over Skype, MSN, and Google Talk. It also works over 3G or WiFi and is free. Very nice!<\/p>\n<p>I downloaded and installed a copy from the Android Market and plan to give it a test (and perhaps record one my mini-podcast sound sample episodes).<\/p>\n<p>New Career Opportunities Daily: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/joblistings\/?c=rss\">best jobs in media<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube video courtesy of fringland The Android smartphone ecosystem has changed a lot (and for the better) between my brief T-Mobile G1 ownership period in October 2008 and today. While the Android app population is nowhere near the size of the iPhone&#8217;s, it is big enough and rich enough to keep things interesting. One big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}