Fring for iPhone and iPod Touch - 2.0.0.4 User Guide

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Installation and User Guide

fring version 2.0.0.4

For iPhone / iPod touch 2.x/3.x.x

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents ...............................................................................................................2

Introduction ..........................................................................................................................3

About fring ....................................................................................................................3

System Requirements ........................................................................................................4

Registering to fring .............................................................................................................5

Login Procedure ................................................................................................ ...........5

Subscribing to your Add-ons – (optional) .........................................................................7

Adding a SIP Service – (optional) ..................................................................................... 9

Using Twitter ..................................................................................................................... 10

Adding Twitter to fring ............................................................................................ 10

Using Twitter with fring........................................................................................... 10

Making your first fring call ................................................................................................ 11

Using fring ......................................................................................................................... 12

Getting Started .......................................................................................................... 12

Statuses ....................................................................................................................... 12

Searching your buddy list ...................................................................................... 13

Making a call from fring .......................................................................................... 13

Receiving a fring call ................................................................................................ 16

Loudspeaker ............................................................................................................... 16

Chatting........................................................................................................................ 17

Chatting with a contact ....................................................................................... 17

Navigating between chats .................................................................................. 17

Viewing offline chat messages .......................................................................... 17

Ending a chat .......................................................................................................... 18

Profile ................................................................ ............................................................ 19

Adding or subscribing to an Add-on ................................................................... 20

History .......................................................................................................................... 21

Adding a new fring contact .................................................................................... 22

Logging out of your fring account ....................................................................... 22

Using fring with Push Notifications ...................................................................... 23

Temporarily disabling Push Notifications ....................................................... 25

Managing Push Notifications .............................................................................. 26

fring's settings .......................................................................................................... 27

Privacy settings...................................................................................................... 27

Hiding or showing offline contacts and phone contacts ........................... 28

Frequently Asked Questions ........................................................................................... 29

Downloading & Installing fring ............................................................................. 29

Registering to fring ................................................................................................... 29

General ......................................................................................................................... 30

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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, live chat and seeing your
contacts online presence with all your fring, Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™,

ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®* friends using your handset’s internet connection

rather than costly cellular airtime minutes.

Once you've installed fring, fring's main screen displays your contacts and their presence
status (e.g. online, offline). This list shows the names of your fringster- friends, your
Skype/Google-Talk/MSN/ICQ/Yahoo/AIM contacts.

Figure 1 – buddy list

From the main Buddy list you can navigate between your contacts, find their presence
status and initiate a communication session with them. You may initiate a voice call,
start a chat session and move between all open sessions using the 'Goto' tab. You
can also make SkypeOut/SIP calls directly from
your fring Buddy list.

To sum it up, you'll not only make your iPhone more useful, you can also save
money.

This guide will help you get started.

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System Requirements

In order to use our version, you will need:

 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
SkypeOut/SIP credits.

2. Currently it is not possible to make VoIP calls over 3G/GPRS networks.

3. In order to make voice calls using the iPod touch you will need the latest iPod touch (the one
with the volume control on the side) and a headset or an Apple certified microphone.

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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 nickname and password.

Figure 2 - Registration Screen

If you have already registered with fring, choose 'Login' and enter your existing
credentials to log in.

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If this is your first use of fring, please choose 'New User' and follow the instructions on
the following screen:

Figure 3 – Account setu p

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.
Note: Passwords must be at least 4 characters long.

Press Go to move to the next screen. The next screen allows you to add your VoIP (e.g.,
Skype/MSN/ICQ etc) accounts details.

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Subscribing to your Add-ons – (optional)

Once you have chosen your fring nickname and password, provide the details of your
Add-ons (e.g., Skype, 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., Skype) 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. To subscribe to an Add-on
now, follow the instructions below.

Figure 4 –Add-ons menu

 To login to an Add-on:

1. Click on 'More', select 'Add-ons' and choose the service from the list, The

following screen appears:

Figure 5 – Subscribe to an Add-on

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2. In the User ID field, type the username of the Add-on you have selected (e.g.,

your MSN username).

3. In the Password field, type the password of the Add-on you have selected (e.g.,

your MSN 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.

If you have completed selecting your Add-ons, navigate back to the buddy list.

5. Once the sign-in is complete, the Buddy list of your fring contacts, selected Add-

on(s) contacts and the handset’s contact list appears.

Note: If you have added more than one Add-on, the Buddy list will display
contacts from all Add-ons in a single list.

Figure 6 – Buddy list

You have successfully completed the registration. You are now ready to make
your first call.

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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' 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.

You are logged into your SIP Service and should now be able to make outgoing
calls through your SIP provider.