08-23-2007, 09:00 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Visual Voicemail Coming to Other Handsets, Including WM
"Acision, the messaging company of choice for over 300 network operators and service providers worldwide, today announces the launch of Visual Voicemail, a fully integrated, easy-to-use graphical multimedia interface that dramatically improves the mobile voicemail experience....Visual Voicemail combines Acision�s established IP Voicemail/ IP Videomail with Action Engine�s intuitive and interactive on-device portal. Visual Voicemail enables operators to offer simplified and enhanced viewing, playback and management of voicemail, as well as ensuring a seamless evolution to other advanced messaging services through Acision�s convergence platform. Visual Voicemail will be available on a variety of Java, BREW, and Windows Mobile handsets."
Not sure why it took so many years before Apple discovered that "ooh! Downloading digitized voicemail to the phone, push-email-style, is a great way of checking it!", but I for one am glad that other vendors are finally waking up to this simple reality and offering a much better way of checking voicemail. Let's hope that, long-term, Microsoft can work with carriers and ultimately integrate this into Windows Mobile.
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08-23-2007, 09:08 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Jul 2003
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I have been doing this for years. My voicemail goes into my Exchange inbox which is pushed to my device and I can listen to it. For voicemail centric playback, the software I have includes a separate voicemail management software tool that allows annotation of the message, direct callback that can be used with the messages in my inbox, web access, etc. I am not sure this is really anything new.
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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -Edmund Burke
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08-23-2007, 11:11 PM
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Originally Posted by JonnoB
I have been doing this for years. My voicemail goes into my Exchange inbox which is pushed to my device and I can listen to it. For voicemail centric playback, the software I have includes a separate voicemail management software tool that allows annotation of the message, direct callback that can be used with the messages in my inbox, web access, etc. I am not sure this is really anything new.
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It certainly isn't technologically, but it's nice to see carriers and technology providers build out-of-the-box solitons for the average consumer.
--janak
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08-24-2007, 02:51 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: May 2004
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Calling in and checking your voicemail uses your minutes. I'm not surprised carriers weren't offering this solution earlier because it would cut their revenue.
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