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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
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I like the PhoneFusion... very simple setup and over quickly
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PhoneFusion is awesome!
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PhoneFusion is awesome!
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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?
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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?
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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
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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?
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
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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.
Do0zman said:
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.
I've googled and googled and only kinda found something similar but it's only in source code (don't know how to compile) and doesn't appear finished...
Is there an app that will allow me to send SMS messages using my tablet, which sends over bluetooth to my phone, which then sends the SMS message out into SMS land?
Thanks!
Why to bother??? Use email to send SMS.
For instance if I need to send SMS to my phone using ANY computer (including G-tab), the way to do it is (Example for T-mobile): [email protected].
Where XXX-XXX-XXXX is your phone number.
I think it has to work with any provider, although @ part will differ from carrier to carrier.
Hope it helps.
I'm very familiar with that ability and you're right, that is one solution but not really one I'm looking for.
I'm really looking for an app for my tablet that is extremely similar to a standard sms app that will work off of my contacts list etc etc. Anyone else care to share their 2 cents?
(Assumes you're on a network and in USA)
Get a Google Voice Account and use the app to SMS.
Yep, another solution.
Anybody know of an app that does what I'm asking rather than just a workaround?
Example: ai.kittywolf.net/index.php/SMS_via_BlueTooth
Yeah man, there are a bunch of solutions. I like the google voice idea.
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Yeah man, there are a bunch of solutions. I like the google voice idea.
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Okay, right, so as I've specified I'm looking specifically for an app that specifically does sms via bluetooth via phone... this is not google voice and it's not email to sms...
Anybody have anything to add regard my specific question rather than something to do with a workaround?
Just want to put this out there.
With Google Voice you can send SMS txt to your contacts for FREE!
No need for BT because you would use your wi-fi tether option on your android phone in the event you're not in an area where you can connect to the internet with out tethering to your phone.
Still not what I'm asking for but I appreciate the suggestion for google voice. My problem with google voice basically centers around the phone number. I would have to port my existing cell number to gv and get a new cell phone number (also $20 for the port). I don't want to get a new phone number and I don't really want to commit to the extent that i'm porting my beloved phone number to google.
All I want is an app... extremely simple concept and my guess is that the programming isn't terribly difficult...
The response you are looking for is
NO!
The reason is no bluetooth DUN support in the gtab kernels. You always get a paired but not connected via bluetooth.
If you really want to use your phone you need to tether the gtab to the phone (plenty of options - search is the key), and then use handcent or similar.
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The response you are looking for is
NO!
The reason is no bluetooth DUN support in the gtab kernels. You always get a paired but not connected via bluetooth.
If you really want to use your phone you need to tether the gtab to the phone (plenty of options - search is the key), and then use handcent or similar.
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Thanks for you help.
Heres a thread I started in the Xoom section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=977688
Basically my idea, which I outlined in there is as follows:
I've been thinking about this alot over the past couple of days even to the point that I began to investigate and play around with the Android SDK to see what I might be able to do, which is not alot at the moment.
I thought of this app functioning as follows:
1) We currently have a bunch of applications that allow the user to view and respond to their text messages through an interface on the browser or computer application using an app on the phone that "broadcasts" the messaging features of the phone out over either WiFi or bluetooth. (For example, the ones mentioned earlier in this thread.)
2) We also have something called "Remote Notifier" that sends out a "ping" when a new message is received to a listening service on a computer which notifies the user on the desktop.
3) If the existing functionality of those two are combined, we have an application that can put together a list of the messages on the phone (primary location), send it out to a secondary location (in this case a tablet), while also notifying the secondary location (tablet) of a new message received.
The app on the phone also gives the secondary location the ability to respond and edit the message list on the phone.
4) The second piece of the equation we would need is an app for the tablet, preferably optimized for the screen size in a 5manner similar to the way Gmail and the native email client handle messaging, (with a list of messages on the left, and the conversation view on the right) that allows the user to browse their messages on the phone and reply within the app.
If the app on the tablet could "look" to the phone as the service provider instead of the network, I could even see notifications being created from within that app and displayed on the tablet just as if it was actually receiving the texts itself.
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I would appreciate any and all help or comments relating to the idea. I think i'll repost it in the main android apps section, since really its not specific to any one tablet.
try this
http://www.kakao.com/talk/en
to the op i totally understand what u want and am also interested.
pairing the tablet with android phone using bluetooth so when u received sms you get notified in your tablet an you be able to replay using your tablet wich will make the phone send this message without u having to remove ur phone from your pocket.
all the solutions mentioned are using wifi, which is a different thing.
i currently use a combination of apps to achieve wifi sms connectivity
remoteSMS + sms2Email buddy. (for notification) this works well in home wifi.
i would be very interested in a blutooth solution (it might be crippled cz it has to be close, but it doesnt need data connectivity chargs)
so +1 for the requesr, please let me know if u found a solution
Well thanks for agreeing with me that it's not a dumb request... No luck so far... keep ya posted if I come up with something.
its not dump at all, .. it has an advantage of not using any wifi / 3g data connecitivty, it would be like having a PadPhone (sms PadPhone)
and actually its not that hard as someone said.
the bluetooth does not have to have an sms api for the app to work, the tablet app could send a text file and the phone app receives the text file, parses it and send a message using the sms api (normal apps can use sms api) and vice versa for receiving an sms .. app gets a copy of the sms received, put it in a text file, sends it to the tablet app using bluetooth, tablet app parses the file and shows it.
i would start developing it but it would take me a long time as am sill noobish in android development, ... if someone could take the lead let me know i might be able to help a little.
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to the op i totally understand what u want and am also interested.
pairing the tablet with android phone using bluetooth so when u received sms you get notified in your tablet an you be able to replay using your tablet wich will make the phone send this message without u having to remove ur phone from your pocket.
all the solutions mentioned are using wifi, which is a different thing.
i currently use a combination of apps to achieve wifi sms connectivity
remoteSMS + sms2Email buddy. (for notification) this works well in home wifi.
i would be very interested in a blutooth solution (it might be crippled cz it has to be close, but it doesnt need data connectivity chargs)
so +1 for the requesr, please let me know if u found a solution
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Try "Sync SMS"
It still requires wifi, but can send and receive sms's from your tablet via your phone.
Any SMS you receive will go to both your phone and tablet. You can reply from either phone or tablet.
It requires a free Dropbox account.
The whole process of transferring sms's back and forth takes about 20_30 seconds and requires no action on your part.
However in the end I just got a separate Google voice number for my g-tablet and use that.
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Still not what I'm asking for but I appreciate the suggestion for google voice. My problem with google voice basically centers around the phone number. I would have to port my existing cell number to gv and get a new cell phone number (also $20 for the port). I don't want to get a new phone number and I don't really want to commit to the extent that i'm porting my beloved phone number to google.
All I want is an app... extremely simple concept and my guess is that the programming isn't terribly difficult...
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I understand what you are looking for and it would be nice to have, to be able to use your tablet wherever you are without worrying about wifi connection. But like you said so far there is nothing.
Also you don't have to port your existing number to GV, I use the same cell number I have used for years on my cell phone and got a separate number for my tablet there was no porting or charge involved.
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Try "Sync SMS"
It still requires wifi, but can send and receive sms's from your tablet via your phone.
Any SMS you receive will go to both your phone and tablet. You can reply from either phone or tablet.
It requires a free Dropbox account.
The whole process of transferring sms's back and forth takes about 20_30 seconds and requires no action on your part.
However in the end I just got a separate Google voice number for my g-tablet and use that.
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its wifi and its not for free, .. i cant buy it, stupid market restrictions, i asked the developer if he needs a beta tester to let me know.
i get the same function without using dropbox, just my local wifi .. and for free.
i found something, but its paid also, .. ble, ... its over bluetooth though, if anyone willing to try
for phone
http://www.appbrain.com/app/bluetooth-sms/com.exitbrain.bluetooth.texter
for tablet
http://www.appbrain.com/app/bluetooth-sms-device/com.exitbrain.bluetooth.texter.device
anyone willing to try it, please let us know
cheers
the app for that is on the market now, its called "bluetooth sms" its 1.99 though but it has a nice honeycomb interface.
The google voice app for the ipod touch natively detects that the device is not a phone and so you can't directly make call with it. Instead you can dial a number and the app will then initiate a call to the phone number that you have linked to the account and then call the number that you dialed in google voice. I need to make my nook color do the same thing. It doesn't work that way though. Instead it gives you an error and it force closes. I am using phiremod 5.3. Any help is appreciated
I also use Google Voice to do texting - wish I could get GV to work on the nook as well.
can you text using GV on the nook color?
You can text with it, yes.
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I do text with it using Google voice. I use my google voice number as my business number. I text people all day using my nook. It works pretty well (I actually wish that I could use handcent to text while still using my GV number, but that is another issue entirely). Occasionally though, I would like to call some of the people that I am texting. So I either have to call them with my normal cell phone and just type in their number, but this way they get my cell number on their Caller ID and so they don't know that I am calling them, or I have to do the whole process of dialing my GV number and going through the prompts to enter in the number I want to call.
All I want to do is click on a number in Google Voice and have it call my cell phone and connect through google voice automatically. Right now my only option is to use the web-based interface to do this. Even though this is exactly what the ipod touch google voice app does. (I totally know that the ipod touch OS and android are obviously way different things, I am just saying). I would think that there would be a way to work around this. If not, google should make it so that there is the option of having GV call my cell number to initiate the call.
Being relativley new to the NC . How would one use this for a call. Is there a way to get voice into the unit? I am interseted if it can work but everything i have read so far does not show voice capability.
Any feed back would be appreciated.
ndinfla said:
Being relativley new to the NC . How would one use this for a call. Is there a way to get voice into the unit? I am interseted if it can work but everything i have read so far does not show voice capability.
Any feed back would be appreciated.
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if you ever use google voice a lot you will understand the question. no you can't talk through the nook using google voice. to do that requires a "full" voip like Skype. he wants to use the nook as a fancy dialer.
As for me i've just been using the web interface which is slow and buggy
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if you ever use google voice a lot you will understand the question. no you can't talk through the nook using google voice. to do that requires a "full" voip like Skype. he wants to use the nook as a fancy dialer.
As for me i've just been using the web interface which is slow and buggy
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Thank you for the clarification
if you just wanted to text and google voice is not working for you - try textfree
I'm having great success calling another android user with Google Talk (Gtalk) app in N4.
Google Talk is Google's instant messaging (IM) program, trying to compete against Skype. You can do IM, voice chat (call) and video chat.
I have heard great things about Skype-to-Skype call quality and did some research. Skype's excellent call quality attributes to primarily 2 factors. First, it uses Skype's own audio codec (SILK?). Second, Skype uses p2p protocol, which means it doesn't have many nodes to connect the 2 users. However, the biggest problem of Skype on Android is it's a major battery hog. Since Skype doesn't support push notification on Android (it does in iOS), the app needs constant polling, which drains the battery at a rate roughly 10% an hour. Usually, you will need to recharge the phone twice a day.
Here comes Google Talk. I'll discuss the pros and cons of its voice call feature.
To my knowledge, Gtalk uses iSAC codec for voice chats among several codec options, when possible. iSAC is a wideband (16kHz vs 8kHz used for phone calls) HD codec, comparable to HD G722. iSAC uses variable bit rate (10 - 52kbps). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Speech_Audio_Codec
What does this mean? You can have HD quality voice calls even on 3g. The call is crisp clear and there's almost zero latency because it uses p2p protocol (similar to Skype). If you are happy with Skype-to-Skype call quality, you will also like Gtalk.
How about battery drain? Nothing extra for most android users because your phone is already running Gtalk 24/7 by default. (If you don't plan to use Gtalk, sign out to save a little battery.) Gtalk uses push notification, which is much more efficient than constant polling.
Gtalk has several disadvantages so YMMV.
First, it doesn't call fork (ringing multiple devices simultaneously). If you want to receive gtalk call from your phone, you must sign out gtalk (gchat) from all other places including gmail and pbxes. Google is said to be working on this issue.
Second, when you accept the voice chat, the default mode is speaker phone. You need 3 clicks (menu>audio>handset earpiece) to change this every time. Silly Google.
Third, not everybody uses Gtalk. Even most android users don't use gtalk despite it's already running.
Fourth, you can't make/receive phone calls. I tried gtalk2voip but didn't like the quality.
Fifth, there's no shortcut to initiate the voice chat. Requires 3+ clicks to make a call.
Overall, if you call only a handful of people who use android, then this might be a solution that offers great quality and great battery life.
This is more of a "feature application" than a "voip alternative" of any sort in my opinion.
Way too many things to do to make a "call"..and at the same time, the recepient of the "call" also needs to have google chat like you mentioned.
Much cheaper alternative would be to just use a voip provier like skype or voip.ms.. yes the codec/quality might be worse, but I think it would be worth not having to go through hoops in order to have a voice conversation.
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This is more of a "feature application" than a "voip alternative" of any sort in my opinion.
Way too many things to do to make a "call"..and at the same time, the recepient of the "call" also needs to have google chat like you mentioned.
Much cheaper alternative would be to just use a voip provier like skype or voip.ms.. yes the codec/quality might be worse, but I think it would be worth not having to go through hoops in order to have a voice conversation.
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At the moment it cant replace "traditional" VoIP solution. Google has to allow the gmail's pstn calling feature in android app. It already has the structure to provide the service and Google just have to flip the switch.
I have asked why Google hasn't made the move yet in several forums and the consensus is Google is playing nice with the wireless carriers.
It is speculated that Google will soon provide wireless data service without voice. I believe that's when android Google talk app will be able to call and receive phone calls natively. It will be a best voip solution given the push and codec it uses.
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So...why dont you just use google voice since its designed for calling. Gtalk is great for messaging and video chatting but i would choose voice for the calling.
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So...why dont you just use google voice since its designed for calling. Gtalk is great for messaging and video chatting but i would choose voice for the calling.
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I think you got confused. Strictly speaking, Google voice is not a VoIP service. It's a pstn call forwarding service.
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Thanks for this solid post. I nearly always use google talk to text my buddies on android but havent thought about using the voice aspect of it. perhaps I should think more about that..
I have absolutely horrible sound quality during video chats on Google Talk. Video isn't great, but sound is incredibly quiet no matter how loud or close the person I'm talking to is.
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Second, when you accept the voice chat, the default mode is speaker phone. You need 3 clicks (menu>audio>handset earpiece) to change this every time. Silly Google.
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I don't even see how to initiate a voice chat. What are the steps?
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I don't even see how to initiate a voice chat. What are the steps?
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Press the microphone while in a chat
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I'm the OP and found Vonage Mobile will be a better solution, when you have a small number of regular callers.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36061263&postcount=778
In short, similar to gTalk, it provides great call quality and great battery life but much better user experience.
has anyone in toronto tried talkatone or viber or dell's fongo app? all these free voice phone apps have pretty crappy voice, the other person can never really hear you :crying:
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Press the microphone while in a chat
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I pressed the microphone button while in chat and it converts whatever I say into text. Can someone posts step by step instructions?
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I'm the OP and found Vonage Mobile will be a better solution, when you have a small number of regular callers.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36061263&postcount=778
In short, similar to gTalk, it provides great call quality and great battery life but much better user experience.
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Tried this and it works fine. Easy to use and call quality seems OK so far. Would be nice to check out the gTalk function though just to compare.