Talk-Now: No more 'I not available. Please leave me a voice mail.'
Talk-Now: No more 'I not available. Please leave me a voice mail.'
How lame is voice mail? Can we all agree to get rid of it and just go with sms or at least make some improvements to it (like the iPhone voice mail UI) so that I don't have to dial 1... wait... you have 3 new messages... wait.. to listen to your voice messages, press 1... 1... wait.. argh..
To that end, Sue (representing Iotum) sent me an email a couple weeks back about a product called Talk-Now, which is in technology preview stage (fancy term for beta?) that basically takes the presence information that you're used to in IM and moves it to your phone so you never have to make a call without knowing whether or not someone is available on the other end, thereby totally eliminating voice mail! Wheee!!!
Check it out (it's an OTA download) at iotum.com/blackberry.
February 20, 2007 in Software, Tips by ajohnson