OT: Now that Callwave is no longer free, any alternatives? - Off-topic

I have simply loved Callwave (callwave.com) for the ease of managing my voicemail. It sends me sms so I have virtually the same as "visual voicemail" and it doesn't make my callers listen to the ATT prompts...but starts recording right after my voice!
Alas, it is stopping its free service tomorrow. Anyone know of an alternative that does similar for free?

try youmail.

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Visual voicemail for the Fuze?

So I've been searching for awhile now
with no luck. Does anyone know of an app
for the Fuze that can do what you see in
the iphone commercial, where you can search through
your voicemails and choose which one to
listen to. I found a couple that read wav
files from your email, and promise something similar,
but my voicemail doesn't get sent to my email.
if anyone knows of an app that will do that for
my cell phone voicemail, that would solve the problem
AT&T does this for the Iphone, so what's the big deal?
why not the fuze, or windows mobile devices
in general?
I use a mix of callwave and mail2web, which has an exchange server. Callwave forwards my voicemail to my email, and the email get's pushed on to my phone. It's the only thing available (that I'm aware of), that will do any sort of visual voicemail on anything that's not an iphone. I even set a separate sound notification for the outlook email, using watchflag
check out youmail. kind of like mentioned above, as u can just have ur voicemail forwarded to email and pushed to ur phone. it has a LOAD of other options such as callertones for each caller and transcription. which used to be free, but has recently changed since coming out of beta. pretty much everything else is free and great to use.
Do any of these allow an actuall wav. or audio file of the voicemail to be sent to me via. an attachment to an email, that can then be checked from my phone. I found a program that scans my email for wav. and audio files and then displayes and allows me to play them just like the Iphone. problem is I can't seem to find a way to have my voicemail sent to my email. I signed up for a youmail account, and I gotta say I like the notification options and being able to check my voicemail online, but it still doesn't actually get the audio to my email, which is kinda what I'm hoping for. Not a huge deal just more convenient. also it's one more thing to be like "iphone, oh ya look at my phone". ok that's kinda cheesy, but you get the point. You kinda get tired of seeing all the fluff about the Iphone when I can do everything and more with my Fuze. I'd like to see AT&T just make this service avaliable to the rest of the smartphones they sell. not just the Iphone, but I'm sure apple made some sort of stipulation, for At&t's exclusivity to the ibone sales.
youmail does send an email with a wav- just check the options. Check this out also: http://www.ppcmobility.com/forums/showthread.php?t=426
both youmail and callwave send mp3 or wav files to your email. they both transcribe text as well. so you can receive your voice mail through both text and email.
what i love the most is, they both send out a notification even if a voicemail is not left. so if you dont have signal for what ever reason (when im on the subway to and from work) you can still be aware of who called.
when used with mail2web or any exchange account with push....visual voice mail seems bland.
MessageSling will also send audio files to your email, free.
phone Fusion
Maybe you need to take a look at phonefusion voicemail plus
It works same as iphone visual voicemail plus more functions.
also it is free
bad news, they only have voicemail number for US.
Thanks all. I appreciate all the help. I did try phonefusion, but didn't like that it didn't sync with my contacts. I actually ended up using a combination of youmail which I have send me an email to my new web2mail address, and then I have that pushed to my fuze, where web2mail is setup as an exchange server. Better than any visual voicemail i've found yet as it actually has caller ID built in. where I don't even need to have the person in my contacts and it tells me who it is. As a bonus I am testing out mvisualvoicemail as friendly interface to view all of them together.
Wouldn't it be easier to just answer your phone? (utter sarcasm)
I like the PhoneFusion... very simple setup and over quickly
Radimus said:
I like the PhoneFusion... very simple setup and over quickly
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PhoneFusion is awesome!
jug6ernaut said:
PhoneFusion is awesome!
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Radimus said:
I like the PhoneFusion... very simple setup and over quickly
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Is phone Fusion free??? And is it "safe", by that I mean is it's security/ privacy safe? From what I understand, when using it you no longer use ATT's voicemail. You forward unanswered calls to phonefusion, but is it reliable? Or could they or other people hear your messages?
techman28 said:
Is phone Fusion free??? And is it "safe", by that I mean is it's security/ privacy safe? From what I understand, when using it you no longer use ATT's voicemail. You forward unanswered calls to phonefusion, but is it reliable? Or could they or other people hear your messages?
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Regarding you question i honestly dont know.... i rarely have voicemails at all and if i do i am not worried about its security. It would be illegal for them to listen to you voicemails...unless of course there is something in the agreement...which i did not read . lol sorry i can not be any help.
and yes its free
Double posted somehow, sorry
Phone Fusion Voicemail Plus is 100% free.
As far as safe, it is stored on their servers, so they COULD listen to it I suppose, but so could AT&T on their own servers if they wanted to....
No normal people can't hear your voicemail. You have to log in to the site to listen to your vm's, or you listen to it from your phone. So unless someone's accessing your phone without you knowing, (like a snooping g/f or b/f) you're good.
The program is pretty sweet btw. I'd DEFINITELY recommend it to anyone who wants a Visual Voicemail type display.
I just tested Fusion Voicemail Plus. It plays through WMP and through the speaker. It would be nice to have one application that would play through the earpiece.
For Voicemail usage like the one on the iPhone (Voicemail stored on an IMAP Server), I suggest you to try Clementine Visual Voice Mail created by flap
http://forums.smartphonefrance.info/viewtopic.php?t=48473
Note that it's in french, but not that hard to understand (even though I'm french )
widoo said:
For Voicemail usage like the one on the iPhone (Voicemail stored on an IMAP Server), I suggest you to try Clementine Visual Voice Mail created by flap
http://forums.smartphonefrance.info/viewtopic.php?t=48473
Note that it's in french, but not that hard to understand (even though I'm french )
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Just clicked your link.......................I'm not French and it IS hard to understand.
Hey, ive tried Phone Fusion and all i get is a black screen, even when activated, what am I doing wrong?

visual voicemail V.S. youmail

http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.phonefusion.voicemailplus.android
http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.loadedbanana.android.youmail
I just got Visual Voicemail for the first time, and now I heard about "youmail"
who has experience with it? Which is better in your opinions? Discuss.
I'd like to know what hero ROM you're on (TAG?) -.- anyway, visual voicemail. Been around longer. If you have gv the voicemail provided by that is far superior to any voicemail app in the market.
I've tried both, and they seem to work well on the surface. However, I never liked them and preferred T-Mobile's voicemail, even if you do have to dial into it.
From my experience, Visual Voicemail ran better, but Youmail is more updated and is a much bigger company. Youmail has services you have to pay for, as for VV, I don't recall.
I do agree though, Google Voice's voicemail works amazingly.
I have been using youmail and its really good
I u end up wanting to cancel the VV service it's a little involved. I canceled mine 2 months ago, then recently out of the blue i kept getting email notifications that my box was full. Once you are fully out of the system thats it. Youmail on the other unsubscribing is a matter of changing your settings. As well they keep your acct should you change your mind, no starting over from scratch.
Ironically enough, I just setup a Google Voice acct today. All i can say is Google is doing doing it big with that one. You should explore that option as well. You wont be disappointed.
I use YouMail on JACHero 2.7.3 and it works perfectly.
I've never had an issue with it. I pay for the Pro/Transcribing as well ($3.99/mo) - since I can't use GV for my main number. The major difference between GV Voicemail and YouMail is that you can customize greetings for different people and GV is free.
I love doing specific greetings.

Personal Voicemail App IDEA!!!!

OK so unless there is already an app like this I think I had a stroke of genius today...how cool would it be to have an app where you could personalize your voicemail message depending on who was calling you?!?! So if person A calls they get a specific message,if person B calls a different message comes up, obviously if the call goes to voicemail...and for everyone else it could be a default message! is this out there already or is this even possible to make?!?!?!
I think youmail has this option.
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I think youmail has this option.
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yuck i dont like youmail...we need a stand alone app of this
amarkow2 said:
OK so unless there is already an app like this I think I had a stroke of genius today...how cool would it be to have an app where you could personalize your voicemail message depending on who was calling you?!?! So if person A calls they get a specific message,if person B calls a different message comes up, obviously if the call goes to voicemail...and for everyone else it could be a default message! is this out there already or is this even possible to make?!?!?!
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The voicemail message that a caller hears is administered by your voicemail provider (programmed into sim by default your wireless carrier). It is more or less independent of the phone and/or any apps running on it. (Otherwise your callers would be unable to leave vm if your battery died).
The only way to customize voicemail (if your carrier's vm does not provide it) is to either forward your vm calls to a vm provider that does (e.g. Youmail, PhoneFusion, etc) or use a call-forwarding service that has the vm features you want (e.g. Google Voice, 3jam, etc)
Google Voice does this and its awesome.
wouldnt there be a way that an app will answer the call after so many rings and provide a custom message per person?
This will use minutes but for people like me who have a 1000 minute plan and only use about 150/mo it wouldnt make a difference.
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wouldnt there be a way that an app will answer the call after so many rings and provide a custom message per person?
This will use minutes but for people like me who have a 1000 minute plan and only use about 150/mo it wouldnt make a difference.
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That would more be like an answering machine app then, which would still be pretty cool
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Google Voice does this and its awesome.
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Check and mark! Google Voice is the perfect alternative to the carrier's bland voicemail. Plus, they transcribe the messages, so if you're someone like me who doesn't listen to his voicemail for 3 weeks, it's a pretty nice scenario.
Of course, invites are hard to come by and come from Google themselves. So this solution isn't reliable for most people. But when Google does decide to open the floodgates and allow personal invites or open to the public, this sounds like a more viable solution than a phone-based app to do this.
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wouldnt there be a way that an app will answer the call after so many rings and provide a custom message per person?
This will use minutes but for people like me who have a 1000 minute plan and only use about 150/mo it wouldnt make a difference.
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I don't know if apps are allowed to "answer" a call programmatically in that way. Furthermore, this would rely on the phone being powered and receiving active signal. If your battery dies or you go into a dead zone, this isn't gonna work.

Sipdroid + GV + Skype Lite = Skype voip?

Here is a question (let me know if this is a re-post):
There is a way to make free calls in the US using Sipdroid full, Gizmo5 and GV (if you have a google voice account) per this guide:
http://iiordanov.blogspot.com/2009/07/sipdroid-gv-guava.html
This works great when I use GV to call any U.S. number. I decided to try to add Skype Lite to the mix. I set up GV to control any outgoing call in hope that the call that Skype out calls will be intercepted by GV and then routed through Gizmo5 to Sipdroid. I used Skype lite to call my home number (I have Skypeout unlimited world) and even though I got the call back through Sipdroid and heard the ringing tune in my G1, My home phone never rang.
What did I do wrong?
Any change this can work?
Why would you want to use skype? Its just a proprietary mess. You can simply use sipdroid straight up with any generic sip account.
lbcoder said:
Why would you want to use skype? Its just a proprietary mess. You can simply use sipdroid straight up with any generic sip account.
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I am using Skype for several years at home. I have unlimited world account for international calls, I have phone adapters at home that work with Skype and an impatient wife that would kill me if I introduce another solutions. All my friends using Skype to communicate. I don't want to have duplicate services or change my life.
al74 said:
I am using Skype for several years at home. I have unlimited world account for international calls, I have phone adapters at home that work with Skype and an impatient wife that would kill me if I introduce another solutions. All my friends using Skype to communicate. I don't want to have duplicate services or change my life.
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Thats too bad. Skype, being proprietary, does not and will not ever dominate the voip market -- you're going to have to ditch it eventually. It's easier to do it now rather than wait until you have no choice.

Visual Voicemail

I am coming from the apple camp so apologies in advance if this sounds dumb. I needed a business phone and did not want to spend the apple money so I bought the Mi 9 and I am using Mint Mobile with it (did I said I was cheap). Anyway having used android tablets I have an idea of how things works but since this is the first time I have an android phone, the communication apps are new to me.
So I am trying to figure out the voicemail thing with this phone. I receive alerts when a new voicemail is received but no notification bubble on the phone app or on the status bar. If I missed the alert, I most likely will not know I have a voicemail. Also checking voicemail seems archaic (press and hold 1 and I have to listen through each VM one by one). I am hoping that I am being dumb and one of you can tell me there is a built in app for to get visual voicemail, so far I haven't found it. Please help and point me to the best way to manage voicemails.
you have 2 good alternatives in:
1) youmail
or
2) your service providers custom visual voicemail app (typciallty can be found in the playstore)

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