How I used an iPhone in Japan
No, I don’t have the super secret version 2 iPhone that is supposed to work on Japanese mobile network. Japan is one place where the current version of iPhone does not work as it is not a 3G phone.
Still I was able to make calls on my iPhone. I used this mobile software called Fring.
Fring is an amazing service, it is a multi-platform chat client supporting Yahoo, MSN, Skype, Gtalk etc. All this works on the Edge network.
I am finding that I am using Fring chat feature a lot, mostly IMing while I am commuting.
On a Wi-Fi network you can make a Skype voice calls too.
I was using an early version of Fring last year on a Nokia phone. I was so impressed with this software that I promised a Fring employee I met that I will write about it. Never got around doing that as I stopped using the Nokia soon after I got the iPhone.
A few weeks back Fring released an iPhone client. You must have an hacked iPhone in order to install Fring. I hope they will release an official version once iPhone 2.0 is out.
BTW Fring works on several other mobile platforms.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:34 am
I got Fring working on my HTC Touch Cruise. It works nice but I am not happy with Windows Mobile, it slow compared to my iPhone and Linux phone. I am debating about trading it in for a Nokia N95.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Hi Kevin, yes, I gave up on Windows mobile a while back. I am looking forward to Google’s Android and of course next version of iPhone.