Installation and User Guide fring version 3.2.x.x For iPhone / iPod touch 2.x/3.x.x/4.
Table of Contents Table of Contents ................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 3 About fring ........................................................................................................................ 3 System Requirements ..............................................................
Introduction About fring fring™ is a mobile internet service & community that enables you to access & interact with your social networks on-the-go, including make free calls, video calls, live chat and seeing your contacts online presence with all your fring, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®* friends using your handset’s internet connection rather than costly cellular airtime minutes.
System Requirements In order to use our version, you will need: iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, original iPhone or iPod touch with the 2.0 firmware (or above) Internet connection (Not a WAP connection) on your iPhone. Download fring on the App Store. Notes: 1. To initiate a call to a landline (or non-fring user) using fring, make sure to purchase SIP credits. 2.
Registering to fring A short registration process is required before you can begin to use fring. The stages of this process are: Login details Selection Service Definition Login Procedure Once the installation is complete, an Installation Complete message appears briefly. You are now ready to select your fring user ID and password.
If this is your first use of fring, please choose your fring User ID and Password, and select 'Next'. Follow the instructions on the following screen: Figure 3 – Account setup The registration screen allows you to select your nickname and the password you will use to access your fring account. Email address is required for password retrieval purpose. You can also fill your phone number (international format) for password retrieval via SMS and for your friends to be able to find you in the fring network.
Subscribing to your Add-ons – (optional) Once you have chosen your fring login details, provide the details of your Add-ons (e.g., MSN Messenger, Gtalk, ICQ etc) so that you can begin making and receiving VoIP calls. Note: You can subscribe to one or more Add-ons (e.g., Google Talk) to which you are registered. Make sure to have your username and password for each. If you do not already have an Add-on account, register on the Web before you begin to add networks. You can subscribe to Add-ons at any time.
2. In the User ID field, type the username of the Add-on you have selected (e.g., your Google Talk username). 3. In the Password field, type the password of the Add-on you have selected (e.g., your Google Talk password). 4. Press Login. The Add-on selection screen appears and you can see a green "V" sign which states the subscription was successful. If you are interested in subscribing to an additional Add-on, repeat steps 1 to 4 in this section.
Adding a SIP Service – (optional) If you have an account with a SIP provider, you can also use it on fring. To add a SIP service: Figure 7 - Service Selection 1. Click on 'More', select 'Add-ons' and choose 'SIP' from the list, The following screen appears: Figure 8 – Select SIP Service 2. Choose your SIP provider from the list. If your SIP provider is not listed, choose Other. 3. Enter your SIP user id and password and press Login.
Making your first fring call Once you have completed the installation and registration processes described above, you're ready to make your first call. To know that everything is working correctly, you may choose to call the fring test call. The fring test call is a test center that lets you record a message and plays it back to you. If you successfully record and hear the message that you have recorded, you're ready to go! To call the fring test call: 1.
Using fring Getting Started Figure 10 – Buddy list Statuses The following statuses are displayed in the Buddy list: On a call Unread chat event Available / Online Busy N/A Offline 11
Searching your buddy list You can browse your buddy list to find contacts quickly. To find a contact: 1. Choose the Magnifying glass icon on the top right corner of the buddy list. 2. Start typing the name of your contact. The list is filtered according to the characters you have typed. Making a call from fring In fring you have three call options: Calling your fring/Add-on's contacts from the Buddy list. Calling your phone contacts from the Buddy list.
2. On your screen you can see the call screen. To end the call press End call. Figure 12 – Call screen To call a phone contact: 1. Open the fring Buddy list and choose a phone contact you wish to call. 2. The next screen will give you the call options (Cellular/SIP). Choose the method you would like to use and make the call. Figure 13 - Call Options Menu 3. On your screen you can see the call screen. To end the call press End call.
To call by using the dialer: 1. Choose the dialer tab from the Tab Bar. Figure 14 - Dialer 2. Click the flag icon and select the country you would like to call. Figure 15 – Choosing country 3. Dial the number and choose the method you would like to use to make the call (SIP/Cellular). 4. On your screen you can see the call screen. To end the call press End call.
To make a SIP call from fring, you must have a SIP account with enough credits to complete the call. SIP credits cannot be purchased from fring, only directly from your SIP provider. Cellular call is a regular call, exactly as if you would make it directly from the iPhone without running fring. These calls use your normal provider rate as fring only acts as a platform to initiate these calls. Note: Cellular calls are not available on the iPod touch version.
Making a video call from fring Video calls are supported to fring contacts using fring on supported devices. To initiate a video call: 1. Open the fring Buddy list, choose a fring contact you wish to call and press the Blue Video Call Button. Figure 17 – Initiate call 2. On your screen you can see the call screen. To end the call press End call.
Receiving a Video call fring allows you to both make and receive Video calls using your internet connection. To receive a Video call: A Video call screen appears with the nickname of the caller. Press the Blue Video Call Button. Figure 19 – Incoming Call Loudspeaker fring allows you to use your iPhone's speaker. To activate / deactivate the speaker: While in the call screen, use the Speaker icon on the top right corner.
Chatting fring lets you chat with your contacts using instant messaging. You can chat with one or more of your contacts simultaneously. Figure 20 – Chat screen Chatting with a contact To initiate a chat: 1. From your Buddy list, select the contact you want to chat with and press the Yellow Chat Button. 2. In the text entry area, write your message and press the Blue envelope icon.
Navigating between chats If you choose to have two or more chats simultaneously, each will have a separate tab. Navigate between the chats by going to 'More' and select 'GoTo'. Viewing offline chat messages Chat messages can be received even when you are offline. If you have received a message, it will appear on your 'GoTo' tab when you open fring. Figure 21 – GoTo tab Ending a chat To end a chat: Press the Back button on the chat screen or go to the GoTo tab and press the Delete icon.
Social Stream fring now chronologically streams all your twitter, facebook, chats and call updates, all in one place ! After you launch fring, you can access your Social stream by selecting the 'Stream' tab: Figure 22 – The Social Stream Tap the Facebook/Twitter buttons at the top left side of the screen and follow the instructions to subscribe to your Facebook/Twitter accounts: Figure 23 – Facebook login Figure 24 – Twitter Login 20
Now, your stream will include not just your fring events (calls and chats) but also all of your Facebook events and Twitter tweets as well. Figure 25 – Social Stream Figure 26 – Social Stream To post on the social stream, select the icon on the top left side of the screen: Figure 27 – Posting and Tweeting You can select whether you’d like to post on Facebook, Tweet on Twitter, or just change your fring's mood message by tapping the correct buttons on the left side of the screen.
Figure 28 – Filtering the Stream To filter your stream, just tap the correct icons at the top part of the screen. When an icon is checked you will see streams from this network and when it is not checked you will not.
Profiles Your profile In fring you can edit and manage your profile. Figure 29 – Profile tab To access your profile in fring: Select the 'Profile' tab. To edit your profile: 1. Choose the 'Camera' icon to edit your profile picture. 2. Choose the 'Nickname' and 'Mood Text' fields to edit them.
Contacts' profiles You can also view and manage your friends' profiles. You can see their details, their online/offline status and their current mood message. Figure 30 – User's profile If your contact was merged you can access all of its info directly through one combined profile.
To access a buddy's profile select a buddy from the contact list. To rename the nickname of your contact, tap the nickname field. Figure 32 – Renaming a contact Friend finder When initially registering to fring, you will be alerted of all of your GSM and social community friends who are already fringsters, in the form of "Hints". You can see these "Hints" in the 'Stream' tab: Figures 33-35 – Hints Tap the message (Figure 33) and Click OK (Figure 34) to start the "Friend finder" process.
Merge buddies Although the process of finding and merging your contacts is automatic, you can also manually merge or unmerge all of your contact's entities from all of the services you are subscribed to by using the Merge feature. Figure 36 –Initial state To Merge your buddy with its different entities: 1. Select your buddy on the buddy list and choose Merge more. 2. Check the box near the contact or the contacts you would like to merge with your buddy and click Save.
To Unmerge your buddy: 1. Slide your finger from Right to Left on the entity you would like to unmerge. 2. Tap Unmerge. Figure 38 – Unmerge Your buddy is now unmerged.
Adding or subscribing to an Add-on You can subscribe to new Add-ons or sign-in as a different user at any time. To subscribe to a new Add-on or to sign-in as a different user: 1. From the Tab bar choose More. The following menu opens: Figure 39 - More tab 2. Choose Add-ons A screen opens displaying the available Add-ons. 3. Follow the process defined in the "Subscribing to your Add-ons – (optional)" section in this guide.
History The history menu keeps a record of every incoming or outgoing voice event in fring. Figure 40 - History The icons on the left side represent the following events: Outgoing call Missed call Incoming call (blue up arrow) (red down arrow) (green down arrow) Note: If you have chosen to display your phone contacts in fring, voice events from your phone also appear in the history menu. To view the details of each event, press the green icon on the right.
Adding a new fring contact You can search for a fring contact by his fring user ID or by browsing your phone book. To search for a fring contact in the fring network: 1. From the Tabs bar choose More. 2. Choose the Add new buddy option. 3. You can now choose whether you'd like to search by fring user ID or through your internal address book. Figure 42 – Add new buddy Type in the fring User ID of the buddy you'd like to add and select Add, or select a contact from your phone book.
Multitasking with fring Using the iPhone's iOS4 multitasking capability, fring can work in the background while you do other stuff with your device. When you would like to hide fring, press the Home button once.
Existing fring If you don't want to stay online and want to exit fring, press the Home button twice, tap and hold the fring icon for a couple of seconds and select the Exit button. When you'll exit fring, you will not appear to your contacts as Online. The next time you'll run fring, you will once again be available and appear Online to your contacts.
fring's settings There are several settings which can be altered in fring. To access fring settings: 1. On your Spring Board, select Settings. 2. From the list of applications choose fring.
Available settings 1. Notifications settings – Choose if you would like to get alerts for incoming events using the push feature. 2. fring mood message – Once you're logged in with your MSN/Google talk on fring your mood message will be changed so your friends will know that you're on fring. You can disable this feature here. 3. fring signature – fring adds periodic signature to your MSN/Google talk messages to let your friends know that you're using your mobile on fring and therefore typing slowly.
Frequently Asked Questions Downloading & Installing fring How do I download fring to my iPhone? The iPhone version of fring can be downloaded on the App Store. Is fring free? Yes. fring's service is free. Your cost for using fring is the standard data tariff for air time it takes to download and use fring. When using fring over 3G data networks, please be aware that you will be subject to the data usage costs that your service provider charges.
General Can I add contacts from other messaging services like Jabber? Not at this time. This option will be available in a future version. How do I search for other contacts? You can search through your Buddy list to find contacts quickly. To search your Buddy list: Click the magnifying glass at the top right corner of your fring buddy list, start typing the name of your contact. The list is filtered according to the characters you have typed.
