Is there a Visual VoiceMessage App for 6700? - Page 2

dmalone · #11 (**permalink**) 12-06-2007, 09:49 PM

It may be a little longer than 2010 if the carrier has to pay a nickel for every voicemail we "see".

Apple, AT&T sued over iPhone's visual voice mail
http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9828078-37.html

According to the article this company has already won suits against AOL and Vonage for the same patents.

PPCFreak · #12 (**permalink**) 12-07-2007, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by dmalone

It may be a little longer than 2010 if the carrier has to pay a nickel for every voicemail we "see".

Apple, AT&T sued over iPhone's visual voice mail
http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9828078-37.html

According to the article this company has already won suits against AOL and Vonage for the same patents.

Yep. Saw this article and pretty much figured the True Visual Voicemail is out of the question.

Guess its on to custom code or trying a different route.

PPCFreak · #13 (**permalink**) 12-07-2007, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by luv2chill

Not every missed call results in a voicemail so how is the app supposed to know which voicemails tie in with which missed calls--voice recognition of the message envelope? If so I think that is way underestimating the amount of work needed to create such a program.

Also, each provider's voicemail system is different and thus you'd need separate versions of such an app for each one.

It's just not feasible--sorry.

I agree that the missed call indicator is not a good way of gauging when a message was left and by who....but since the CDMA carriers don't track that with the Voice Message, I was looking to that as a possible way to tie the 2 together.

sshearer · #14 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by tiermann

... Windows controls where all audio is routed to, so no reason you can't record it. If it didn't, then bluetooth headsets wouldn't work very well.

I'm not sure exactly how it works, but if there's a mixer channel for phone audio in Windows Mobile like there is for everything in Windows then it could be very simple. If not, then the tricky part is writing a driver which does have support.

Given the above, would you care to add a comment to a message I left a little while ago at http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=12637 ?

I like your statements above - they follow my line of thinking as well. My problem is that I don't have the software development tools (any more) - but I can write a mean requirements document

Greg · #15 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 06:05 PM

If you don't mind a) giving out a different number and b) going to a mobile webpage to view/listen to your VM's. Grand Central can do something like that, not to the Apple/ATT polish, but it is something to look into.
www.grandcentral.com
Google bought it and it's still in beta. It has as a lot of other neat features for call management as well.

PPCFreak · #16 (**permalink**) 12-12-2007, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Greg

If you don't mind a) giving out a different number and b) going to a mobile webpage to view/listen to your VM's. Grand Central can do something like that, not to the Apple/ATT polish, but it is something to look into.
www.grandcentral.com
Google bought it and it's still in beta. It has as a lot of other neat features for call management as well.

Grand Central doesn't solve my issues/requirements. Plus GrandCentral does not support my state yet (Iowa).

I am looking into another possible route. Using the same thinking that some other web based software uses (CallWave as an example). The biggest issue I am running into right now is I don't know if I can change the way the voicemail works on my phone/carrier.
Would like the voicemessage to be left on a different number (example: someone calls my cell, I don't answer, forwards the caller to xxx-xxxx instead of my cell #). Thats where I am current stuck at....

I have a small setup at my work that works this way with our incoming lines (direct dial lines) and if I can change where my voice mail forwards to, I might just be able to get this working.

**Perasite** · #17 (**permalink**) 12-12-2007, 12:07 PM

I believe that is a paid option (at least with Sprint.) I would contact your carrier to see if they can do Call Forwarding on No Answer.

PPCFreak · #18 (**permalink**) 12-12-2007, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by 6700Yuma

I believe that is a paid option (at least with Sprint.) I would contact your carrier to see if they can do Call Forwarding on No Answer.

I talked with 2 different techs from VZW and they both said they did not have that option.

Which doesn't suprise me. As I have been trying to get VZW to do the txt/sms blocking that Sprint allows. VZW just says NO.

esanto · #19 (**permalink**) 12-13-2007, 11:08 AM

I've been looking into this, and apparently it is possible to set up with sprint with no charge. Found this yesterday:
http://morningpaper.typepad.com/morn...-voicemai.html

Can anybody confirm that they have callwave working with no forwarding charges from Sprint?

PPCFreak · #20 (**permalink**) 12-13-2007, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by esanto

I've been looking into this, and apparently it is possible to set up with sprint with no charge. Found this yesterday:
http://morningpaper.typepad.com/morn...-voicemai.html

Can anybody confirm that they have callwave working with no forwarding charges from Sprint?

Your link says it all. No charges from Sprint if you have them set it up as No Answer Call Forward and not just Call Forward.