YouMail Visual Voicemail - 1 week later
Posted by Jay Donovan on 06/24/08 in Voice Mail
This will be a short post. After a week or so, using YouMail’s Visual Voicemail service, I have to say it holds up well. I have been pleasantly surprised by the speed and accuracy of the voicemail delivery and their transcription beta is… well, better than beta for me.
The only problem I have had at all, was hearing back from the company with regard to some of the questions I forwarded to them on behalf of Mobility Site readers. I will try again to get the answers about languages supported, etc.
Additionally, I didn’t know Barack Obama was a YouMail user (see gfx above). JUST KIDDING!
Bottom line: Barack should sign up. This service worked great for me. I give it the Thumbs up!
YouMail Visual Voicemail
Posted by Jay Donovan on 06/19/08 in General, SMS, Voice Mail
I saw a link about this over at smartphonethoughts.com but there wasn’t much info about how it really worked, so I decided to run a few tests of my own.
YouMail is a visual voicemail service. What that means is that once you set up an account, you have web access to your voicemail and you get extra, advanced voice mail options, with their service.
I have to admit, messing with the voicemail system already set up on my phone made me a little nervous. The last thing I wanted to do was goof that up and start missing messages. Thankfully, so far, they seem to be coming in just fine.
YouMail claimed that the set up would only take 2 minutes, and I think they were right. It was an easy account set up, and then they give you the specific phone code to enter (for your phone model) and I think what it does is sets forwarding on your messages to go to their system and not your provider’s system. In the help file there is info about how to cancel your account and restore your old voice mail routing.
