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fring™ strengthens manufacturer relationships

BARCELONA, - Award winning mobile community and communication platform, fringTM, today announced pre-installation of fring onto Samsung OmniaHD, a mobile with ultimate multimedia powerhouse and HD brilliance.

Already installed on Samsung Innov8, the world’s first 8-megapixel camera phone last year, fring™ extends its deployment of fring’s mobile internet community & communication application which allows friends to connect, share experiences and enhance their communities together.

As a Core Member of Samsung Mobile Innovator, fring has worked with Samsung to preinstall fring onto Samsung Symbian/S60 devices. As a result, fring has been optimized to provide the best possible end-user experience, tailored to Samsung Innov8 and now to Samsung OmniaHD .

Samsung OmniaHD with the pre-installed fring application is being demonstrated at the Mobile World Congress 2009, Barcelona. This represents fring’s strategic intention to expand the audience for rich mobile internet experiences to the mass mobile market.

Commenting on today’s announcement, Avi Shechter, co-founder & CEO of fring said: “Today’s announcement demonstrates a major mobile device manufacturer embracing the social potential offered by mobile internet. “

“It also illustrates fring’s recognition of the great market potential for mobile to go beyond communications and become the most powerful social & community device, delivering unparalleled community experiences for the end user, even beyond what the PC had been able to offer.

“We are pleased to cooperate with Samsung to support the company’s various social networking applications by offering the combination of community, experience and communication which we have pioneered and which is fuelling fring’s phenomenal global growth so far.”

fring will be demonstrated on Samsung mobile phones pre-loaded with its applications at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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About fring™

fring™ is an award-winning mobile internet community and communication service that allows friends to connect, share experiences and enhance their communities together from their mobile device. They do this using a combination of proprietary fring utilities and the internet’s most popular social and community applications including Skype®, Facebook®, MSN® Messenger, GoogleTalk TM, Twitter, Yahoo!TM, AIM®, ICQ®, Orkut®)

fring is 100% free with no subscription costs; consumers simply pay for the data they use under their existing mobile operator agreement.

fring is completely PC independent, it requires no additional hardware, has no geographical or location limitations and operates on any available mobile internet connection: 3G, Wi-Fi, GPRS, EDGE & Wimax.

fring was launched in January 2007 and has experienced phenomenal global adoption, with millions of users now enjoying the fring experience in more than 200 countries worldwide, and approximately 500,000 new fringsters joining the fring community each month.

fring operates on Symbian Series 60 devices, Samsung S60, Sony Ericsson UIQ Smartphones, Windows Mobile, iPhone, J2ME, Linux Mobile & Intel’s Moblin devices, which currently represent more than 1,000 mobile handsets (the full list is available at http://fring.com website)

The fring community includes users across more than 200 countries.

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