Current mood:	calm
Entry tags:	app, fring, iphone, jailbreak, voip

Fring for iPhone
I tried the Fring pre beta for iPhone, it has the promise to become what pidgin is to me on the desktop, but, it's really buggy and lacks some really important features I wish they'd add before they release the beta or goto stable.



Crib 1: I can't tell if the other person is typing,

Crib 2: It forgets the chat history. When I exit fring it forgets all the history.

Crib 3: It dies off if left in the background. How am i supposed to browse and chat at the same time?

Crib 4: It does not do the horizontal view on iPhone. It's easier to type. and provides better readability, the phone is easier to hold that way, and most people browse in the horizontal view, doing both thing at once, I don't want to keep rotating the phone.

Crib 5: It does not hide off-line contacts, neither does it group the contacts.

Crib 6: I have to navigate through 3 screens to chat with multiple people. Surely they have heard of tabs, safari on iPhone allows tabs (of sorts), something similar should work.

Crib 7: Crashes whenever you try to make a call.

Update:
Crib 8: When I'm chatting with someone, I have to continue finding them in the whole list again and again. Keep current conversations sticky on top, or provide tabs.

It's a cool app, if only it'd do what I want.