Those who’ve been using iPhone, would have fallen in great love with its visual voice mail feature. It’s kind of handy that you have a list of the voice mail and choose which one that you wanna listen to. The visual voice mail on Apple iPhone definitely comes in very handy, which helps a lot in business use, such as the handiness that you can choose some important voice mails to get them saved. And digging it out to listen to it again anytime.
For those who own an iPhone, it’s definitely hard for you to adapt to changing to another non-iPhone mobile. Maybe just for one simple reason i.e. the handiness of the iPhone’s visual voice mail simply remains unforgettable to you.
But for those who have not yet owned an iPhone and will have no plan to own one in the near future, but you’d like to try out the visual voice mail feature on other cellphones. Here you go, an application, called SimulSays delivered to you by PhoneTag, allows you to enjoy the visual voice mail on those Windows Mobile-based smart phones or BlackBerry phones.
PhoneTag is a company that provides transcription service to convert the content of voice mail messages into text. Now, it’s got a separate application that allows you to have a visual log of who’ve left voicemail messages. So you can have a nice visual list of your voicemail on your cellphone, and select the voicemail that you wanna listen only, similar to what the iPhone has.
SimulSays can be used in conjunction with the PhoneTag’s transcription service, and is free for PhoneTag’s existing users. But if you wanna get SimulSays alone, then you’ll be charged $4.99 per month, after the 7-day free trial.
SimulSays presents similarly to what the iPhone does, shows you couple of details about your voicemail messages, including the name of the caller or just the number if it’s not in your address book, and the date and time of each message. You can then reply a selected voicemail by phone, SMS or email, or forward the voicemail as an attached audio file in an email.
SimulSays works well with almost all Windows Mobile smartphones, but works fine only with a few BlackBerry phones, which are BlackBerry Pearl (T-Mobile and Cingular), BlackBerry 8800 (T-Mobile and Cingular), Blackberry Curve (Cingular).
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July 7th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Simulsays is GREAT, in theory, but BAD, in use. When I first got it, I was happy, as I started to use it over 2 months, I grew to despise it. Hopefully, my experience will help someone not waste money on this. Here is my cancellation letter:
I could not be more dissatisfied with this product as used on my Sprint HTC Touch Diamond phone. There are two main reasons I am canceling. First, the interface is HORRIBLE. Not only is the UI inconsistent and marginally functional, but it looks primitive, at best. Messages rarely ever play the first time ‘play’ is clicked. Often, they stick part-way through and I have to rewind and push play over and over. Many times the application just crashes. More annoyingly, the audio only plays over the speaker (like music) instead of through the earpiece (like calls and VMs). So I can only check my messages when I’m alone, which isn’t often. Beyond these problems, the Interface designers have done a horrible job for windows mobile and this fact is amplified when compared to the stylish Touch Flo interface on my phone. All the graphics are text-based and pathetically unpolished. It appears as though ZERO effort went into styling the look and feel. I’m sure a middle-school computer science class participant could produce a more appealing front-end. The website is nearly as bad. Were the ‘logout’ and ‘back’ buttons I’m looking at, right now, designed by kindergartners? Even your logo is a graphic design nightmare. ALL OF YOUR GRAPHIC DESIGNERS NEED TO BE FIRED, IMMEDIATELY. Hire someone competent and sales will spike, guaranteed. Look at the iPhone’s visual voicemail interface and capture at least a fraction of their quality UI design. The last reason I’m canceling, is because of Sprint. They setup the VM forwarding in a way that generates $0.20/min charges during each forwarded voicemail call. Even though I have the “simply everything” plan. After discussing this with several tech support reps, there is no way around this charge. Last month, my bill was $20 higher for using this service. This is no fault of yours but I cannot continue to pay so much money for something so poor in quality. If it had the visual appeal of a modern application, I’d even consider $25 because I LOVE LOVE LOVE visual voicemail. Sadly, I just hate, hate, hate your interface. Seriously, please consider firing your graphics people. ASAP!!!!