Here's another in my series of interviews with some of the top developers and marketeers in the Symbian (and wider mobile) world. In this case, Jake Levant, from Fring, chatting about fring’s creation, its development, the philosophy behind its programming teams – and fring’s future.

From the full interview:

"How did you get the idea for fring? What did it develop from?

fring is the combination of ‘freedom’ and ‘ring’. It was started by folks who helped break the communication shackles on the PC (from ICQ to social networks to IP communication) and who had a vision that the mobile phone could offer more fun, richer communication experiences. While fring started years ago with voice and text chatting over IP, the real growth has been driven with the video chat innovation that fring pioneered back in November 2009. fring was the first to launch video chat over IP – it was the opportunity to change the way we communicate on the go. No longer would friends have to make do with hearing about exciting things going on, now they could participate, regardless of where they are."