Fring has updated its VoIP and IM client for the Symbian platform to version 3.36.

The company announced the news on its blog today. Available for all Symbian 9, S60 3rd Edition (mostly Nokia) smartphones, the software update fixes a few bugs and sports an upgraded and "better looking" interface and is now more user friendly, according to the company.

With an upgraded menu structure, and all of your favorite online communities and cool new fring Add-ons available in one easy place, making it simpler than ever to find what you need.

The new edition of fring also adds support for the FAXL 3 Add-on development language. That’s aA feature fring asserts developers will love; although it should mean much of anything to the rest of us.

You can download Fring 3.36 directly to your current smartphone by pointing its browser to www.fring.com and clicking download.

Fring is a light downloadable mobile phone application enabling anyone with a compatible handset to make free calls and text messages or “chat” to other fring users in addition to Skype, Google Talk and MSN contacts.

It uses 3G mobile networks to transmit VoIP data; you simply use the data within their existing subscription agreement. The service can also connect over Wi-Fi at home, in the office or at the many “hot spot” cafes; these calls consume neither voice nor data air time.

Earlier this month, fring joined the thousands of other applications available at the iPhone App Store.