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Group Video Calling Between Android, iOS Devices and Symbian – It Can Be Done, Here’s How

Perhaps in an ideal world we would all have the same smartphone, it would certainly make a number of options easier to use but there are plenty of apps that work across devices to enable you to communicate as if you were on the same device and even in the same country.

There are a growing number of apps that allow video calling between platforms, mostly that’s iOS to Android but there is one app that goes a whole lot further. Find out which one that is below and why it is so good…

iPhone version/Download here/Free
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Fring

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One thing in particular that we love about Fring is that not only can you use it to video call between iOS and Android device but it also works well on selected Symbian smartphones, such as the Nokia N8 and Nokia E7.

There’s another thing that sets this app apart from the competition, it is the only app in its class that allows group video calls with up to 4 people.

And how could we forget, it also offer VoIP – that’s the facility to call any other phone number, ie the user does not have Fring, for less.

iPad

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Fring has just been made available on the iPad and the the fring iPad Group Video chat experience is wrapped in a fun, intuitive, natural gesture- navigation where users drag & drop friends into Group Video chat, move their video chat stream & seamlessly augment video chat with parallel communication like tandem text chatting.

“fring is empowering tablet users to unleash the power of their 9.7 inch screens beyond movie watching and gaming to rich, fun personal video communication,” says Avi Shechter, CEO and Co-founder of fring. “With Group Video on the iPad, we are changing face to face video chat. Users will now be able to video socialize on big screen tablets enjoying seeing their friends wherever they are- as they commute, sunbathe at the beach or wait for coffee at a café.”

In addition to free Group Video chat, fring enables users to make free two-way video chat, voice calls and live chat with friends on Android, iPhone/iPod touch & Nokia Smartphones.

Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)

5 Comments

  • rozmi

    Anyone out there have experience in using Fring vs. Skype? How does the video quality compare?

  • Joanne Carter

    The video quality with Skype is good, there’s no question. Skype ‘only’ offers iOS to Android transmission at the moment not Symbian as well and they’re still working on their group chat, so in all Fring is probably the better one to use atm.

  • marianroma

    Could Fring be used for making video calls between Android and Symbian smartphones?Thanks in advance!