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"Fring, a mobile application offering VoIP calling and chat, is expanding its video calling feature released last year with a private beta build of its application for iPhone and Android that introduces group video calls.\nThe group video calling feature will allow Fring users to initiate free video calls on their mobile devices, presumably over Wi-Fi or 3G, with up to four participants. \n\"This is super exciting as it\u2019s the first time the world will get to enjoy free Group Video calls,\" the company writes in a blog post announcing the limited-edition version of the app. \"This Fring feature lets four friends video call each other simultaneously, making it a mobile video calling party of sorts.\"\nThe application is not ready for full release and has a few known bugs, but Fring is ready to solicit feedback and test the early release with select users. \nInterested parties should be existing Fring users and need to sign up and input their UDID or IMEI phone identification numbers. Since group video calling is limited to users with the beta release, would-be beta testers need to supply the same information for up to three friends. Also, if you identify yourself as a Mashable reader (enter \"mashable\" after your name), you may receive special consideration from Fring.\nThe new beta group video calling feature puts Fring on the cutting edge, but mobile device owners have not yet shown an overwhelming interest in mobile video calling. In a Pew Internet &amp; American Life Project study published in October, just 7% of cellphone owners indicated that they have experience with video calls via mobile phone.\nFounded in 2006, Fring has raised upward of $23 million in funding and competes with Skype and other app makers in the mobile VoIP and video calling arenas. \n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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