According to techcrunch.com, a new Israeli company, Fring, is to offer a native VoIP application for the Apple iPhone. Making this particularly interesting is that techcrunch.com reports that Fring will be using the iPhone ‘Jailbreak’ unlocking tool to get around Apple’s platform lockdown.

Fring appears to already provide their product for most other smartphone platforms.

Nokia just has announced it’s new 6300i handset.

The 6300i, developed (inevitably) from the Nokia 6300 now includes WiFi connectivity and a Voice over IP capability. Nokia’s developer site suggests that the handset will communicate on the SIP protocol for VoIP with the potential to make such calls over either GSM or local WiFi networks.

The 6300i is set to ship to ’select markets’ in the second quarter of 2008 with a MSRP of €175