With friends this good looking, you might want to video chat all day long
Fring, the cross-platform mobile VoIP app, has issued an update that brings native four-way video-calling to the iPad, before Skype has even released an iPad app of any kind.
The app, which is also available for Android and even in Nokia's OVI store, offers video and audio chat over both Wi-Fi and 3G (unlike FaceTime, which is currently Wi-Fi — and iOS — only).
Considering that Apple's own iChat multi-way video calls at first required a honking great Mac Pro to initiate and control the session, running this on an iPad shows how far we have come in just a few years. Sure, you probably don't take your iPad skiing, or blow kisses to three of your friends at once like you see in the promo photo above, but there are times when four-way chat could come in useful.
The obvious use is podcasting, but as Fring offers no desktop software it's unlikely to usurp Skype anytime soon. In fact, this might be Fring's major problem. Most of my Skype calls (and I imagine the majority of all video calls) are to family and friends far away. Most of these don't have smartphones yet, let alone tablets, so Skype remains the default for now.
Still, if you can actually manage to round up more than one friend who are both geeky enough to have Fring, and are also as good looking as the people in these promo shots, then good luck to you. You are clearly awesome.
NEW! Fun Group Video Chat for iPad: Full Size! [Fring]
Fring for iOS [iTunes]
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