Ohhhh, now I get it!
A few days ago, I started using Callwave to manage my mobile voicemail, mainly due to the flood of voicemail from my job search, but also because I think Cingular’s voicemail system could do with a serious usability overhaul (why do I have to listen to the entire message before deleting it??).
It turns out that Callwave’s system is very similar to Cingular’s. Most of the voice prompts are exactly the same. It does, however, fix some of the things that annoy me the most about Cingular’s voicemail, so the familiarity with some incremental improvement is nice. It also does other cool things like send you text messages with useful info about new voicemail messages like the caller’s number (and caller ID info, if available!), and the message duration.
I discovered the real usefulness of it yesterday when I was sitting at my computer checking Gmail, with my phone turned off, and I got a new voicemail email from Callwave. My phone was off, and I still knew who called, and was able to listen to the voicemail without turning the phone on. Ohhhh, now I get it.
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2 comments:
Great service!
Check the box in your settings for "Deliver voice mail messages as email attachments" and you don't have to click through to a web page to get the message.
This is important on mobile because their web plugin doesn't work in mobile browsers.
If you use this option, you basically have the Visual Voicemail feature the iPhone is touting, using your mobile email inbox as the list.
Ah, good point! I couldn't figure out why I'd want to check that box. Now I can just point my phone at the gmail label I have being assigned voicemails. Very cool, thanks rich.
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