Wonder వరల్డ్

indian movies

Free applications to make your phone smart.

Software that allows you free calls, file sharing, video streaming and email on mobile.

There is no denying the fact that mobile web is probably the most happening place these days. With scores of start-ups putting their heads together to solve knotty problems faced by the industry, and coming up with money-saving schemes, or devising eye-popping applications, it’s a whole new world of discover. Here are a few new services that should help you pack away your laptop for good and get truly mobile:

Talk is cheap

Our first pick is fring (www.fring.com), a service that should save you lot of money, especially if you make a lot of ISD calls.

This services promises to exploit the data subscription that the carriers offer, and help you save on air time as well as sending SMS text messages from your phone.

Just like skype does for your pc, Fring is a service that lets you use peer-to-peer technology to send calls from mobile phone over the web free of cost . fring need both sender and receiver to have the application on their phone for the calls to be free.

How this work is simple : you initiate the call from your cell phone and connect to web using GPRS service. So, instead of paying for airtime, you would use up your GPRS minutes.

To use services like this, it’s a wise idea to use eat-as-much-as-you-can plan which charge a fixed monthly rate for GPRS.

Frieng is a free down loadload and free to use. However , you would need a smartphone that uses symbine 8 or 9, windows Mobile 5 or 6, or UiQ operating systems to start using the service.

In addition to letting you take and make calls, this service also allows you to log into messenger service like MSN, gtalk and yahoo . to send instant-messages text chats through your cell phones. Pratha srinivas, a PR professional from mumbai who is an avid fringster, claims to behookedon to the service.

In public relations you have to be connected all the time. Fring works just fine for me. With a Rs 449 per month plan, I remain connected to clients and friends 24/7 using this service,” he says.

Fring is, of course, not the only software in this particular area. Other similar service include various start-ups auch as jajha and sjype’s mobile version.

But Frieng, in addition to allowing you to save on airtime and cut down your ISD bills by almost 50% also provides an application to transfer files. Using this application, you can transfer all kind of data-including mp3s, digital photos and vedio clips-with friends.

Emails direct to phone

For those who long for a black berry and would like emails pushed in to their hand set instead of having to long to via the browser every time, Morange(www.morange.com) is an application to look at. It’s a one stop shop for managing your emails, chat accounts, RSS feeds and friend list. This means you can integrate all your emails such as Gmail and yahoo: mail and get your emails pushed in to your phone using this application free of cost.

To get this software, you can go to www.morange.com or simple point to wap.morange.com from your mobile phone. Morange is available for J2ME (in Mini and full version) , as well as for windows ( for free ring tones to your mobile phone see this website http://freeringtonestoyourmobile.googlepages.com