From the NY Times Fring, which started out offering a VoIP client for mobile phones has added the ability to make and receive video calls from mobile phones, letting you see your friends as you talk to them - for free.
As with the VoIP client, you have to be a Fring user, or "fringster," as CEO Avi Schechter calls them, to download the video client. Fringsters can then talk to friends outside of Fring via various services, including Skype, Twitter, Facebook, last.fm, Google Talk, and AIM through a combined friend list. Fring makes money through banner ads and other advertising mechanisms.
Schechter says the ads are not very intrusive. Fringsters can use the mobile client to live chat, update profiles, and share files.
Continue reading here
http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2009/11/25/25venturebeat-fring-launches-video-voip-for-mobile-44459.html
Get the download here http://www.fring.com/download/
Also see my blog Use your cell phone and Fring to call the world free or cheap http://philippinestuff.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/use-your-cell-phone-and-fring-to-call-the-world-free-or-cheap/
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