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I disable voicemail immediately. I absolutely hate the feature. Visual voicemail/voicemail to txt is.. okay. It's a fair trade. But if I'm somewhere where I can

by mrjatx 13y ago

I disable voicemail immediately. I absolutely hate the feature. Visual voicemail/voicemail to txt is.. okay. It's a fair trade. But if I'm somewhere where I can't answer the phone I want you to just send me a text message. Maybe (not always) I can answer you via text, or at least I can QUICKLY be aware of how important it is as opposed to calling my carrier, waiting for queues, hitting 4 buttons, having to skip through 3 old messages... Just to hear white noise because you didn't hang up immediately after the voicemail started.

soperj 13y ago
The real problem with voicemail is the implementation. If it wasn't such a complete pain in the ass to get a message it would be useful. Personally I feel if the call actually gets to my phone, save it on the phone and make it one touch to receive it.
- jasomill 13y ago
  With the exception of "one touch", this ("Visual Voicemail") is exactly how voicemail has worked on every iPhone ever. I assume similar implementations are available for other platforms. The ony time I see the traditional "push 1 to listen" voicemail interface is when I use my iPhone on an unsupported network.
yeukhon 13y ago
The problem is not everyone can text you. For example, I get missed calls from school, from my dentist office or from government agency. They don't text me back when I am offline. I hate calling strangers back. I don't like listening to my voicemail either but it is still essential in today's communication. Just as not everyone has text enabled. But when the person is not available, I at least know he or she has voicemail enabled or not. Plus, I hate typing on my phone. It takes so much effort. My big hands never play nice with screen keyboard, whereas over voice I can just spill the words in 10 seconds. > Just to hear white noise because you didn't hang up immediately after the voicemail started. I don't know how often this happen but I think in general people nowadays either hang up immediately or the chance of plain white noise is pretty low. Some of my friends are SMS users, some are twitter, some are FB, some are imessage. There is a big fragmentation and this is why a lot of chat app try to integrate with your native SMS (for example, FB Messenger). Or you get notification and reply over SMS (FB, Twitter)
- johnchristopher 13y ago
  I agree with you. Moreover, I understood over the years that it's always better to communicate with people using their favourite means of communication: FB? MSN chat? mail? SMS? phone call? Whatever it is I just use it because it reduces friction. Personally I favor email. I don't like being called on the phone but I find it convenient that I can call someone (like most people I suppose).

by mrjatx 13y ago

soperj 13y ago

The real problem with voicemail is the implementation. If it wasn't such a complete pain in the ass to get a message it would be useful. Personally I feel if the call actually gets to my phone, save it on the phone and make it one touch to receive it.

jasomill 13y ago
With the exception of "one touch", this ("Visual Voicemail") is exactly how voicemail has worked on every iPhone ever. I assume similar implementations are available for other platforms. The ony time I see the traditional "push 1 to listen" voicemail interface is when I use my iPhone on an unsupported network.

yeukhon 13y ago

The problem is not everyone can text you. For example, I get missed calls from school, from my dentist office or from government agency. They don't text me back when I am offline. I hate calling strangers back. I don't like listening to my voicemail either but it is still essential in today's communication. Just as not everyone has text enabled. But when the person is not available, I at least know he or she has voicemail enabled or not. Plus, I hate typing on my phone. It takes so much effort. My big hands never play nice with screen keyboard, whereas over voice I can just spill the words in 10 seconds. > Just to hear white noise because you didn't hang up immediately after the voicemail started. I don't know how often this happen but I think in general people nowadays either hang up immediately or the chance of plain white noise is pretty low. Some of my friends are SMS users, some are twitter, some are FB, some are imessage. There is a big fragmentation and this is why a lot of chat app try to integrate with your native SMS (for example, FB Messenger). Or you get notification and reply over SMS (FB, Twitter)

johnchristopher 13y ago
I agree with you. Moreover, I understood over the years that it's always better to communicate with people using their favourite means of communication: FB? MSN chat? mail? SMS? phone call? Whatever it is I just use it because it reduces friction. Personally I favor email. I don't like being called on the phone but I find it convenient that I can call someone (like most people I suppose).