Fring for iPhone and iPod Touch - 3.2.x.x User Guide

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Installation and User Guide

fring version 3.2.x.x

For iPhone / iPod touch 2.x/3.x.x/4.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

Making your first fring call ................................................................................................... 10

Using fring ............................................................................................................................. 11

Getting Started ............................................................................................................. 11

Statuses ........................................................................................................................... 11

Searching your buddy list ......................................................................................... 12

Making a call from fring ............................................................................................. 12

Receiving a fring call ................................................................................................... 15

Making a video call from fring ................................................................................. 16

Receiving a Video call ................................................................................................. 17

Loudspeaker ................................................................................................................... 17

Chatting............................................................................................................................ 18

Chatting with a contact .......................................................................................... 18

Navigating between chats ..................................................................................... 19

Viewing offline chat messages ............................................................................ 19

Ending a chat ............................................................................................................. 19

Social Stream ................................................................................................................. 20

Profiles .............................................................................................................................. 23

Your profile ................................................................................................................. 23

Contacts' profiles ...................................................................................................... 24

Friend finder ................................................................................................................... 25

Merge buddies ............................................................................................................... 26

Adding or subscribing to an Add-on ..................................................................... 28

History .............................................................................................................................. 29

Adding a new fring contact ....................................................................................... 30

Logging out of your fring account ......................................................................... 30

Multitasking with fring ................................................................................................ 31

Existing fring .................................................................................................................. 32

Address Book Options ................................................................................................ 32

fring's settings ............................................................................................................. 33

Available settings ......................................................................................................... 34

Hiding or showing offline contacts......................................................................... 34

Frequently Asked Questions .............................................................................................. 35

Downloading & Installing fring ................................................................................ 35

Registering to fring ...................................................................................................... 35

General ............................................................................................................................. 36

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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, 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.

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
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,
a video call, start a chat session and move between all open sessions using the
'Goto' tab. You can also make 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 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. 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 user ID and password.

Figure 2 - Registration Screen

If you have already registered with fring, choose 'Login' and enter your existing
credentials to log in (If you forgot your password you can use the password retrieval
'Click here' link at the bottom of the page.

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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.
Note: Passwords must be at least 4 characters.

There's an option to update your mood text and your image. Don't worry; you will be
able to update them later if you wish.

Press 'Next' to complete the registration and start using fring.

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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. 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 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.

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', 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.

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

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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. From your buddy list choose the 'fring test call' contact and press the Green

Call Button on the second screen.

The call connects to the test center.

2. Listen to the message and follow the instructions.

Your test is complete!

Figure 9 – fring test call

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On a call

Unread chat event

Available / Online

Busy

N/A

Offline

Using fring

Getting Started

Figure 10 – Buddy list

Statuses

The following statuses are displayed in the Buddy list: