Fring marries music, MoIP and messaging with Last.fm add-on
Fringers, start your updating. The Israeli mobile comms company has just announced the release of a new version of its popular application that brings Last.fm streaming and friend-monitoring to the fring app. Users can now enjoy custom streaming radio stations while chatting with friends without ever having to leave the fring application. All of your favorite types of Last.fm stations are available and Love/Ban functions are supported as well. Sweet! For the time being, Last.fm via fring is not available on the platform that needs it most – the iPhone – but hopefully we’ll see an update soon. Since S60 allows third-party applications to be minimized, Mobbler can easily be used to stream Last.fm while a user is chatting in fring. With the iPhone on the other hand, where the Last.fm app cannot be sent to the background while the user is fringing (yes, we know Backgrounder can remedy this on jailbroken iPhones), the addition of of Last.fm streaming would certainly be welcome. Hit the jump for a very peculiar video that sums up the latest version of fring nicely.
Nice. I might have to reinstall Fring tonight.
Thanks for this post BGR! Just enabled it and I am listening to it right now on my way home on my E71. I usually listened to last fm via mobbler while using fring. The only than that i dont like so far is that when the song changes and you are using another app (like I am doing right now) it takes you back to the fring app. The same thing happens when chatting but i think for music this is not necessary.
Sure would be nice if fring(iphone) would sign into my damn skype account. WTF it errors every time it true to connect !
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