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Software
Google Voice Enables Voicemail For Any Phone Number
3:36PM Rosa Golijan | Google Voice has just opened up its fantastic, feature-filled voicemail to any phone number (pending that you have a Google Voice account). This means you can finally free your voicemail from your mobile phone service provider. More »
QOTD
Do You Still Use Voicemail?
9:00AM Sean Fallon | In recent years, it seems that the number of people using voicemail is dwindling. Maybe I’m wrong…maybe it isn’t dying out as fast as I imagine. So, my question is simple: do you still use voicemail?
Networks
4:38PM Nick Broughall | We’ve had a few people comment that Vodafone’s Visual Voicemail feature for iPhones isn’t actually working despite our post yesterday. Well, the good news – hopefully – is that it should be completely active by Friday. At least, that’s what they told Gus over at Lifehacker. Let’s hope they’re right. Or, more tro the point, let’s hope the other networks follow suit pronto…
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Can’t Get Vodafone’s Visual Voicemail On Your iPhone? Should Happen By Friday, Apparently
4:38PM Nick Broughall | We’ve had a few people comment that Vodafone’s Visual Voicemail feature for iPhones isn’t actually working despite our post yesterday. Well, the good news – hopefully – is that it should be completely active by Friday. At least, that’s what they told Gus over at Lifehacker. Let’s hope they’re right. Or, more tro the point, let’s hope the other networks follow suit pronto…
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Phones
11:10AM Nick Broughall | When Steve jobs first showed off the iPhone back in 2006, there was one cool feature that somehow never made it out here in Australia with the iPhone 3g: Visual Voicemail. But today, Vodafone has finally launched the service for their iPhone 3G customers. More »
Vodafone Launches Visual Voicemail For iPhone
11:10AM Nick Broughall | When Steve jobs first showed off the iPhone back in 2006, there was one cool feature that somehow never made it out here in Australia with the iPhone 3g: Visual Voicemail. But today, Vodafone has finally launched the service for their iPhone 3G customers. More »
Networks
11:00AM Nick Broughall | Remember back in February when we told you about SpinVox, the speech-to-text service that converts your voicemail into SMS messages for Telstra customers? Well, if you’re an Optus mobile customer, you’ll be able to enjoy the same service in the near future. More »
SpinVox Coming To Optus Customers This Year
11:00AM Nick Broughall | Remember back in February when we told you about SpinVox, the speech-to-text service that converts your voicemail into SMS messages for Telstra customers? Well, if you’re an Optus mobile customer, you’ll be able to enjoy the same service in the near future. More »
Software
Apple’s Patent Hints at iChat AV Video Answering Machine Message
4:20AM Jason Chen | This patent for automatically sending an audio or video reply to an iChat call has us excited, because it could point to automated replies not just on computers, but via the iPhone as well. More »
Phones
2:25PM Nick Broughall | Rack this one up as an awesome idea. Telstra has partnered with a company called SpinVox to launch a service which automagically converts your voicemail messages to text, and then sends you an SMS so you can read the message instead of having to listen to it. More »
Telstra Launches Voice To Text Service For Voicemail
2:25PM Nick Broughall | Rack this one up as an awesome idea. Telstra has partnered with a company called SpinVox to launch a service which automagically converts your voicemail messages to text, and then sends you an SMS so you can read the message instead of having to listen to it. More »
Networks
TrapCall Displays Blocked Numbers on Your Caller ID
8:20AM Sean Fallon | A new service dubbed TrapCall allows users to unmask pesky blocked callers—revealing not only their number, but their name and address in some cases. More »
Software
Fusion Voicemail Plus App Is Visual Voicemail For Android
9:15AM Adrian Covert | T-Mobile may not have an official Visual Voicemail service for customers, but PhoneFusion plans to change that—for the Google G1, at least. The app, which was previewed today at the Under The Radar Mobility Conference, is currently available on the Palm, Windows Mobile and Blackberry platforms, and works in a similar fashion as the VV apps on the iPhone and Instinct; the name, number, date and time for each of the messages in your inbox appears on the screen as a list of entries. As far as Android specific details go, there’s not much info on the app except that it will appear in the Android Marketplace by the end of the year. [NewsBlaze via IntoMobile] More »
Networks
9:43AM Nick Broughall | This announcement from Telstra confuses me: We can already access email on pretty much any mobile phone these days, and I can’t picture most people wanting to check their SMS messages on their PC. So what’s the deal?
MyConnect is made up of three different parts: My Inbox, which is an online message, contact and calendar management service for all your various messages like email, sms, voicemail etc and is free; My Email which lets you access up to five different email accounts on your mobile for $7 a month (hang on, doesn’t the HTC Touch Diamond do that for free?) and MySync, which for $3 a month will backup all your contacts and calendars and synchronise it with MyInbox.
So essentially it’s like a MobileMe for Telstra customers. And it costs about the same too – for all the features you’re looking at $120 a year.
Aside from the obvious bitching about price, is this something any of you guys would be interested in? Or are there other, better solutions you’d prefer?
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Telstra Launches MyConnect – SMS And Email Service For PC And Mobile
9:43AM Nick Broughall | This announcement from Telstra confuses me: We can already access email on pretty much any mobile phone these days, and I can’t picture most people wanting to check their SMS messages on their PC. So what’s the deal?
MyConnect is made up of three different parts: My Inbox, which is an online message, contact and calendar management service for all your various messages like email, sms, voicemail etc and is free; My Email which lets you access up to five different email accounts on your mobile for $7 a month (hang on, doesn’t the HTC Touch Diamond do that for free?) and MySync, which for $3 a month will backup all your contacts and calendars and synchronise it with MyInbox.
So essentially it’s like a MobileMe for Telstra customers. And it costs about the same too – for all the features you’re looking at $120 a year.
Aside from the obvious bitching about price, is this something any of you guys would be interested in? Or are there other, better solutions you’d prefer?
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