Do you love or hate voicemail?

[k0ua]

"Clutch pack" and "Swash plate" and "Circle widget" and "Battery charge" and "Flipping it with a swipe"....:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: for all I can understand you guys are talking about operating a tractor rather than trying to help each other figure out voicemail on a smartphone.....:laughing: :laughing:

Well the references to the clutch pack and the swash plate came up in another thread, he was asking about transmissions.. I am an equal opportunity adviser.. I don't mind mixed metaphors.:laughing:

 

[Iowan]

I hate voicemail and text, if I miss your call I'll call you back, if you text me I'll call you back.

 

[FTG-05]

The 3 circles is what you are looking for.. When you don't have a voicemail (yes the reel to reel red icon) They will show the time and date in the big one on the left, and the center one will show the temprature of any set of city's you want to program it for and the little one on the right will show the percentage of battery charge. The one with the time and date will show the voicemail when you have one. Also it can show the clock as analog or digital, by "flipping" it with a swipe. As for the center one you "flip" it to change the cities you wish to display the temp and wx condition.

I got the three circles: Digital time, temp and battery charge level. I must not have VM because I don't see the tape reel symbol. My wife is watching a Breaking Bad marathon so She Who Must Not Be Disturbed can't send me a VM right not to try this out......

Thanks!

 

[k0ua]

I got the three circles: Digital time, temp and battery charge level. I must not have VM because I don't see the tape reel symbol. My wife is watching a Breaking Bad marathon so She Who Must Not Be Disturbed can't send me a VM right not to try this out......

Thanks!

The VM symbol will appear when you get a VM message.. otherwise it will just show time and date. Also text messages will show the Text message symbol in the big circle, and a word or two of the message.

 

[dmccarty]

I hate voice mail since it just wastes time. Voice mail made sense when we did not have smart phones that log who called and when. That is far more useful than a voice mail that I have to dial a phone number to access and then a PIN code to hear the message, which turns out to be "Its Joe call me." With a smart phone I know it was Joe who called in a split second vs 30-60 seconds to access the voice mail. Voice mail is even worse when I don't know Joe and have not intention of talking to Joe. With a smart phone, I just ignore the call.

For years I did not have voice mail set up on my smart phone. I only had one negative comment about the lack of voice mail. :laughing: Eventually, the wifey set up voice mail because she said I need it. I don't think anyone has ever left a message. :confused3:

My work phone has voice mail but very few people actually call the phone number much leave a message. The vast majority of work voice mail is a message about going on a cruise that I get every few months. The work phone is mostly used to call into virtual meetings and is seldom used to talk one on one to someone.

We have a message machine on our home phone but I am not sure it is even hooked up. The only time someone calls the home number is when they can't reach us on the smart phones or the are a tele marketers but we don't get many of those calls.

Later,
Dan

 

[k0ua]

Dan, you make some good points. Yes I am afraid voicemail is slowly going the way of the fax machine. Yes we still have and use both, I use the fax machine now in my new avocation more than at any time in the past, but for many business's and industry's the fax machine and voice mail are just "hangers on". Things we used to rely on but now are somewhat redundant.

 

[aczlan]

I have and use voicemail on my smartphone, but its forwarded to my Google Voice account. That way, I get a machine transcribed text of the voicemail shortly after the person leaves it. Most of the time that's enough to tell what they want and its way faster than listening to the recording.

Aaron Z

 

[dmccarty]

I have and use voicemail on my smartphone, but its forwarded to my Google Voice account. That way, I get a machine transcribed text of the voicemail shortly after the person leaves it. Most of the time that's enough to tell what they want and its way faster than listening to the recording.

Aaron Z

My wifey has this setup and it works well.

Later,
Dan

 

[Gary Fowler]

Hate voice mail, hate texting. Both never activated. I'm a happy man!!

Same here, I am quite happy with just phone service and missed call is good enough for me. Wife has it all and stays on the phone it seems like 20 hours a day either talking, texting or surfing the web.

 

[RoyJackson]

I prefer e-mail to any other form of message.
Texting is not acceptable for business related communications...personal texting (wife, GF, BF, kids) is OK. Of course, texts can be ignored as easily as voice-mail. Texting while driving is illegal in many states and pretty stupid.
My only complaint about voice-mail is some callers leave inaudible messages...or they talk too fast to understand what was said.

 

[k0ua]

My only complaint about voice-mail is some callers leave inaudible messages...or they talk too fast to understand what was said.

Many of the later versions of voicemail systems I installed for business had a feature to let you either slow down or speed up the speed of voice of the person that left the voicemail without lowering or raising the frequency of their voice. In other words, not chipmunks or bullfrog sound, but several levels of faster or slower speech. Which is a pretty good trick if you think about it.

 

[Oaktree]

I prefer e-mail to any other form of message.
Texting is not acceptable for business related communications...personal texting (wife, GF, BF, kids) is OK. Of course, texts can be ignored as easily as voice-mail. Texting while driving is illegal in many states and pretty stupid.
My only complaint about voice-mail is some callers leave inaudible messages...or they talk too fast to understand what was said.

I rarely use my cellphone and never check it for voicemail. I do have an answering machine on the home phone. As far as voicemails go, leave a BRIEF message that gives me the gist of why you called. Some people go on and on and on, and others like my wife's sons just leave something useless like "mother, call your son".

As far as preferences...if it's important, call otherwise an email is fine. I don't do texting.

 

[dmccarty]

I prefer e-mail to any other form of message.

Yeppers.

My only complaint about voice-mail is some callers leave inaudible messages...or they talk too fast to understand what was said.

Yep or when they talk so fast you can't write down their phone number so you have to listen to the message several times. It just wastes time. Why does someone have to talk so fast to leave a message and/or phone number? :confused3:

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

Many of the later versions of voicemail systems I installed for business had a feature to let you either slow down or speed up the speed of voice of the person that left the voicemail without lowering or raising the frequency of their voice. In other words, not chipmunks or bullfrog sound, but several levels of faster or slower speech. Which is a pretty good trick if you think about it.

My work voice mail allows one to slow or speed up the message. The problem is that the system is complicated/confusing that I don't have a clue how to speed up or slow down the message. :confused3::laughing::laughing::laughing:

There are a bunch of buttons on the phone that are obvious about what they do but I don't really use those buttons/features. :laughing::laughing::laughing: It really is funny how little we use the phone today. The vast majority of our phone usage is to call into meetings and we very seldom use the phone to talk one on one to anyone anymore.

Later,
Dan

 

[k0ua]

My work voice mail allows one to slow or speed up the message. The problem is that the system is complicated/confusing that I don't have a clue how to speed up or slow down the message. :confused3::laughing::laughing::laughing:

There are a bunch of buttons on the phone that are obvious about what they do but I don't really use those buttons/features. :laughing::laughing::laughing: It really is funny how little we use the phone today. The vast majority of our phone usage is to call into meetings and we very seldom use the phone to talk one on one to anyone anymore.

Later,
Dan

What brand is the system,? I may be able to tell you how to slow down or speed up the speech.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

If I missed a call and they don't leave a message, it wasn't important and they don't get called back, unless it is close family.

 

[/pine]

There is no cell service here at our place so I manage voicemail via a land line...it stops all the messages from coming up when the cell phone is booted where there's service...