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patrickl:
I notice people try to reach me through e-mail more and more. I receive e-mail on my "phone" so I'm easy to reach that way. I like this a lot. It means less of those pesky and intruding phone calls. I have to admit I "train" people to do this by hardly ever having my phone ringer on. When I have the time I answer my phone, otherwise they go in the voice mail. So a voice call basically gets treated like an e-mail. Actually I'm more likely to quickly answer an e-mail then I would answer a phone call (phone calls just take much more time).

shmokes:
I like phone calls, but I HATE voicemail.  When I was a network admin I strongly encouraged people to contact me via email if they wanted a response.  And I had my office phone permanently forwarded to my cell phone, not because I wanted all people to be able to get a hold of me at all times, but because I simply did not want to have to manage the voicemail on my desk phone.  Ever.  The problem with voicemail is, if it's not an emergency it doesn't move to the top of my to-do list, but voicemail is organized so poorly that I'm liable to forget about it entirely and never actually address whatever the person was calling me for.  I mean, sure, when I listen to the message I push the button to save the message, but if I ever want to listen to it again I have to get by all the other saved messages in order to hear it. 

Visual Voicemail is by far the biggest innovation brought to the table by the Apple iPhone, as voice messages are displayed onscreen exactly the same way email is displayed in a typical email client, and you can listen to messages in order of importance, or file them away based on whatever criteria you want.  It's the way email works, but more importantly it's the way any type of messaging system should work.

patrickl:
On my PC I do get voice mails in my Outlook inbox. On the PDA not no. That would be nice. Although I get a lot less phonecalls each day now.

Actually, I do basically the same thing, but manually. Now and then I scan my voicemails and I listen and put them on my todo list and delete them from the voice mail.

shmokes:
Oh yeah . . . there's no question that if I displayed proper discipline there wouldn't be any problem.  But I'm ADHD and have a great capacity for procrastination.  And I'm unorganized.  Voicemail amplifies these deficiencies, while email alleviates them.  If I don't address a problem in an email right away, it will still be staring me in the face the next time I open my email client, right there with the sender and subject of the message clearly visible to keep me from putting it off until I forget about it.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shmokes on September 09, 2007, 10:55:57 am ---Visual Voicemail is by far the biggest innovation brought to the table by the Apple iPhone, as voice messages are displayed onscreen exactly the same way email is displayed in a typical email client, and you can listen to messages in order of importance, or file them away based on whatever criteria you want.  It's the way email works, but more importantly it's the way any type of messaging system should work.

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It's not innovative, really.  I worked on a product for NTT that was doing that nearly ten years ago.  It wasn't a mobile product as it predated reasonable cell phones but you could log into your home voicemail with a web browser and read it like email.  The only way this sounds different is that it's on a mobile device instead of your home PC.

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