Just sent the following to FVM Sales/Marketing support...
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Thanks for providing your awesome free VMplus service.
My idea is this: If your service simply sent an MMS with an attached voicemail that appeared to be from the caller, your service would automatically have the following benefits over the current implementation.
1) You would not need to install any custom software on your phone.
2) Messages would simply appear under "messaging" along with TXT and other voice/picture/video MMS messages.
3) Messages would automatically show contact name and picture along with the attached voicemail.
4) Messages would have built in MMS notification icons on the top of the screen.
5) Messages could be played back inside the MMS viewer instead of having to launch icky Windows Media Player.
You would have to allow messages to be deleted from your server with the following options:
1) User could enable Auto-Delete upon sending the MMS.
2) With auto-delete off, either reply to the MMS with a blank message to delete, or delete using your web interface.
In the mean time or if you cannot implement this way for some reason, here are some app suggestions:
1) Please add contact name and pic to your app.
2) Please add an internal player with a progress-bar instead of launching WMP.
3) Please allow a custom background image instead of just black.
In the mean time of that request, is it possible to somehow tell it to launch the sound file in some other player besides WMP?