what happend with FRING?
 

What happend with fring? any new??

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i was wondering aswell, i thought they would have been 1st to use front camera for video calls.

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I myself was wondering that also since they said they will have an n900 app out soon. Since like alot of promised apps for the n900 is not being finished unless they waiting for the new update to release it since this update suppose to make use of the front cam

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Anyone got an answer!?

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Realistically, I don't think theres any reason for it.....

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Seems it landed in the fring(e) division..

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they made a 1st beta, it sucked and then they didnt bother

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I want webcam chat dammit!

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would be nice to get SOMETHING working before and iphone with a front facing camera beats us to it. Is it that hard?

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You CAN already use your camera for webcam chat.

With Gtalk! :)
It's just build-in!!!!

For MSN: download aMSN (ok, it's very slow with connections, but... it works)

www.amsn-project.net

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We want something that works right, not only under certain circumstances, that eliminates both of those. I dont have a msn screenname and most of my friends dont either. Gtalk is crap when it comes to video on the n900. Some of my friends didnt even know about gtalk, so getting them to sign into their gmail to use gtalk was kind of annoying for them. These are not solutions.

We need video call capabilities.
We need skype video chat since it is built in already.
Flash webcam support would be nice but I hear its a hardware limitation, still, not an excuse to not have it enabled at all.

I have actually managed to get failry decent quality from my front camera in good lighting so I know the problem isnt just quality concerns.

Even like 1 fps video would be a start for streaming. Heck, I can do way better than that with Qik.

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+1 and we want it now.
Maybe I'm just paranoid but does anyone else get the feeling that companies (like Fring) are waiting for Meego before building any more apps.

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I asked the Fring team about the support for Fring on the N900.
This is what they replied:

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hm none of my friends are using gtalk.

why doesn't skype support it? it is available on all desktops, a lot of people are using it and it is able to handle video chats. hmmm.... strange.

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Nothing strange. Guys, we've been over this quite a few times. Skype simply does not support video calls on mobile platforms. ANY mobile platform. Really, it doesn't (nor did they promise if and when it will). The N900, Maemo, Nokia have little to do with that.

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there's also 'pidgin' if you want a messenger. i like it better then amsn.

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I heard the next update should have video chat capabilities. There is also a thread around here talking about using google talk for web chats if the other person initiates it and they are on a pc. I havent tried it yet.

I want fring to work so i can tranfer files via instant messenger. I haent found a way to do this yet

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Ah, but isn't the N900 a "desktop computer in your pocket"?

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hmm maybe the idea is right and the first approach should be to get the smaller camera to work with these flash plugins such as in Chatroulette. (see other topic for that) http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=605904

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No, it's a mobile computing platform with a web browser capable of giving an experience similar to desktop computers.

The problem regarding Skype is that the protocol is proprietary & there needs Skype to do it. Maybe worth asking them directly?

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If Skype released an ARM version of their Linux desktop client I’m pretty sure it would work (video quality notwithstanding) almost out of the box, the N900 *is* that close to a Linux desktop computer.