Visual Voicemail
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- Machuse
What would you think of a service, that allowed you to get all of your voice mail, from all your numbers (office, work, home, cell) in a similar fashion to your iphone.
Plus let push your voice mails as emails, look them up on a website etc.etc.
- doesnotexist0
eh, I think it would be useless. you can forward calls and all that + it's nice to have private numbers people don't know about.
- ? i don't get how this would stop you from having private numbers, or forwarding calls?Machuse
- Machuse0
Lets say you have 3 numbers and don't want too use grandcentral or some other services that creates a single number for you.
Lets say your away from your desk; (traveling for a week) and you need to get the last voicemail you received on your office phone, then get a message from your home phone; maybe you don't have cell phone service where you happen to be.
Now you can go to a website, or just get your voicemails from your email ... from all your different phones instead of having to use their, archaic/slow method of retrieving your voicemails - skip tjhe messages you dont want to see ect. Just like with the iphone except for with all your numbers regardless of carrier or setup.
- doesnotexist0
sounds redundant still.
- acescence0
and how exactly would that work, technically?
- ismith0
1) There would be a lot of trust issues
2) As proprietary voicemail improves, the user experience you may provide becomes less and less desirable
3) Much of your market would be 'special case' users, in regard not having cell service in a location where one would need to check voicemail
4) Forwarding can already be done easily through many other methodsMy conclusion is that while you could conquer all of the above obstacles, it would probably take a lot more experience in human psychology, UX design, and marketing to make such a venture profitable.
- acescence0
so you've figured out how to remotely retrieve voicemail from all the cell carriers, hardware and software pbxs and landline providers? i am skeptical.
- Machuse0
thanks for the thoughts.
Maybe I need to take a step back: how many phones do you guys have/useI know I hate checking my voicemail (would rather just call the person back)- I have 14 msg's right now, And I think i need to listen too the 12th msg. Instead of calling my number, and spending 5 min going through my msgs; i could just listen too the one
i want and just delet the msgs I know i already returned.No matter how good any individual the voicemail service is, I dont see that negating the need for this.
- If everyone has visual voicemail already why would they need another one?ismith
- who has visual voicemail? other than iphone users?Machuse
- http://www.ovolab.co…
I know many people who have been using this for years, plus GrandCentral, iPhone, etcismith - It's in the works for many other devices and service providers as well.ismith
- thats 150$ plus it only works for one type of phone. What if you have a blackjack or WMo phone?Machuse
- Phlink isn't the only app of it's kind, just happens to be my favorite.ismith