It's not up to the carrier to support it, if you're not depending on the carrier's voicemail system. This is an idea I'd been thinking about for a while, and was the first thing I thought of when OpenMoko was announced - since it takes access to the gsm module to be possible.
Disable voicemail w/ your carrier (if possible; otherwise just answer before it kicks in). Write a voicemail app for the phone that answers the call after a few rings, plays a message, records response to local memory. Assuming we've got access to the caller ID data, that should be everything needed to write a visual playback app. Plus, you can do fun things like throwing in a simple turing test ("dial 7 if you're human", before even ringing/passing to voicemail), or handling incoming numbers differently (ring immediately on recognized numbers, send others straight to voicemail). Pitfalls: You lose the immediate ability to remotely access voicemail; the functionality could easily be recreated in the phone, but your phone needs to be on somewhere for it to work. The whole thing would also fail if you're phone's off or out of range - though carrier voicemail's always there to fall back on. For me, though, I can easily live with these limitations - I never use remote access (I've always got my phone on me), and I can't remember the last time I've looked at my phone and seen less than 4 bars. As soon as 2/11 hits, this'll be my first goal. On 1/19/07, David Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Visual voicemail requires back-end support from the carrier. On 1/19/07 5:34 PM, "Gervais Mulongoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is my understanding that Visual Voicemail is a feature that is purely iPhone + Cingular. On 1/19/07, Christopher Ellison < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Might we be able to have visual voicemail, as advertised with the iPhone...or is this service provider dependent? _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ________________________________ _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
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