Fring brings video calls over 3G to iPhone 4, shatters chains of FaceTime oppression

VoIP and IM client Fring has updated its iPhone 4 application to allow users to make face-to-face video calls over a 3G connection, and to a host of mobile devices -- not just other iPhone 4 handsets.

The gripes we had with FaceTime

That pretty much clears up the gripes we had with FaceTime, Apple's own video-calling platform, which restricted calls to friends who owned an iPhone 4, and who were also sitting pretty in a Wi-Fi hotspot. 

We're still not completely sold on video-calling in principle, mostly due to the fact that you're essentially gazing up the nostrils of your close friends and associates. Still, we never say never, and we're glad to see some competition entering the iPhone video-calling market.