Word: voicemail
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...baby boomers, a nice way of saying the only people who may not yet have cell phones. It?s the opposite of a so-called smartphone-far from push e-mail servers and multimedia text messages, this phone comes pre-loaded all the contacts you?ll ever need, and voicemail is optional. I said ?dumb? but in truth, this simple phone may be one of the smartest designs on the market...
...voice recognition from the brainiacs at VoiceSignal. If you don?t want to voice dial, you can press the ?No? button, which leads you to the next option, a list of phone numbers. Press ?No? again, and you get a call history, followed by a prompt to listen to voicemail. A final ?No? takes you to a screen of quick stats: battery life, signal strength and approximate used minutes...
...Voicemail is organized in a similarly linear fashion. Your first option is to hear new messages. Pass that and you?re on to your saved messages. After that, you can edit your answering options (name only or a full greeting). Best of all, you can navigate voicemail by simply answering ?yes? or ?no? to everything-you don?t have to push a single button...
...Plans range from $10 per month for ?simple SOS?-no regular minutes, just emergency service-up to 300 minutes per month for $40. Voicemail will cost an extra $3; the usual taxes and other surcharges also appear on the bill. GreatCall offers annual versions of all of their plans, but the math didn?t add up for me. The 300-minute plan costs $569 if you pay for the year up front. Even with voicemail included, that?s over $50 more expensive than paying monthly. The annual plan includes a 20% discount on the phones, but I hardly think that...
...entrust their elderly parents? safety to a cell-phone carrier that isn?t their own. My desire is to see this phone somehow become a major-carrier offering, and not just the hardware. Let?s see the big boys sell the whole package, including full-service set-up, simplified voicemail, and barebones billing options...