Re: Visual Voicemail

2007-01-20 Thread Jeremy Nikolai
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

Re: Visual Voicemail

2007-01-20 Thread Sven Neuhaus
Austin Taylor schrieb: Visual voicemail requires back-end support from the carrier. Think like a hacker. Why couldn't we scrape it? Right. If there is some distinct signal (beep) between messages on your voicemail, the phone could probably recognize it. Otherwise it gets a lot more

Re: Visual Voicemail

2007-01-20 Thread Sencer
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

Re: Visual Voicemail

2007-01-20 Thread Lars-Peter Clausen
Ted Lemon wrote: On Jan 19, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Austin Taylor wrote: Think like a hacker. Why couldn't we scrape it? Think like a developer: how can we make it work? Think like an entrepreneur: is there a solution here that we can offer? Can we transform GSM-as-usual into a transport?

Re: Visual Voicemail

2007-01-20 Thread Wil Chung
Well, I was just saying that decoding beeps from Asterisk is probably harder to do than to decode SMS(s), and let the phone keep track of what voice mails are available to listen to (like an index), and then Asterisk keeps the voice mails. When the user wants to listen to a specific voice mail,

Re: Visual Voicemail

2007-01-19 Thread Gervais Mulongoy
It is my understanding that Visual Voicemail is a feature that is purely iPhone + Cingular. On 1/19/07, Christopher Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Might we be able to have visual voicemail, as advertised with the iPhone...or is this service provider dependent?

Re: Visual Voicemail

2007-01-19 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Austin Taylor writes: Visual voicemail requires back-end support from the carrier. Think like a hacker. Why couldn't we scrape it? No camera? ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Visual Voicemail

2007-01-19 Thread David Schlesinger
On 1/19/07 8:20 PM, Austin Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Visual voicemail requires back-end support from the carrier. Think like a hacker. Why couldn't we scrape it? Um, because, all other things being equal, you'd have to parse out an audio stream to get at the information you'd need...?