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iChat 4.0 Voicemail
A trusted source has provided TUAW with a screen-capture of an iChat 4.0 preference pane which hints at an as-yet-unannounced new feature– voicemail. Such a feature would round out the programs VoIP offerings and create a more complete communication experience for users.
Now if only iChat could integrate with Skype and SIP, I wouldn't need a phone at all!
Update: Can it be exclusive if Mac Rumors covered it in Dec? Ah well, here's hope we both don't get matching nastygrams from Apple legal (hey, we love your work!).
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
zxspectrum said 5:11PM on 2-15-2007
2 little 2 late...Skype is is few laps ahead.
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St3phen said 8:12AM on 2-15-2007
That's neat and all, but I'm not sure I want to go to TUAW to see such bait for Apple Legal... you guys be careful and walk the clean line. Let the rumor sites take the hits for stuff like this.
This is just one man's opinion; I could be wrong...
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Stuart Frisby said 8:21AM on 2-15-2007
Surely this has to be a sign of .mac syncing of voicemail between iPhone and iChat. That would be awesome.
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sietepestes said 8:22AM on 2-15-2007
this is old news... its been posted already by the big rumor sites, and was talked about in the WWDC 2006. Aside from that, what st3phen said is so true... specially posting images and such... c'mon people don't spoil the surprise. there is a reason they are keeping it secret...
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HK said 9:04AM on 2-15-2007
I agree St3phen, you never know... Apple eyes can be everywhere.
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sietepestes said 8:34AM on 2-15-2007
and on a further note its not exclusive... those same pics have been all over the news before...
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David said 8:48AM on 2-15-2007
Didn't this come out around WWDC 2006?
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animaniac said 8:53AM on 2-15-2007
I would rather have Gmail and Google Talk integration of the VoIP/voicemail features!
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John Anthony Evans said 9:18AM on 2-15-2007
Just wanted to add that skype has an answer phone so I do not understand the skype comment at all.
Personaly this sounds like a waste of time feature on it is own. Who seriously gets that many voice chats that they need an answerphone?
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Bryan said 9:13AM on 2-15-2007
Is it me or is the font about the copyright and running man logo a bit stretched than it should be? Is it even in the right font - looks like Myriad instead of Lucida Grande like how it is in the current iChat.
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duffman said 9:37AM on 2-15-2007
Yes, it's so a TUAW exclusive, Mac rumors spoke about that just two months ago ....
http://www.macrumors.com/2006/12/13/leopard-ichat-answering-machine/
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person said 9:49AM on 2-15-2007
http://www.macrumors.com/2006/12/13/leopard-ichat-answering-machine/
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Dan Oblak - MacBigot.com said 11:38AM on 2-15-2007
The news isn't really a stretch; AIM added this functionality a while ago, and iChat uses much of their 'plumbing':
"Call me anytime... on my new AIM voice mail number!" (Thursday, December 21, 2006)
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Longhorn said 11:07AM on 2-15-2007
I can't wait to see this in action!
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Ratz said 12:34PM on 2-15-2007
Are you sure it's real?
In the legal stuff on the About iChat window it says 2002-2006 Apple Computers Inc. and iChat 4 will be out in 2007 from Apple Inc.
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Dan Oblak - MacBigot.com said 10:39PM on 2-16-2007
Er, that's:
http://macbigot.blogspot.com/2006/12/call-me-anytime-on-my-new-aim-voice.html
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smokeonit said 1:45PM on 2-15-2007
hopefully Voip comes too, as should MSN and other messenger be integrated.... Adium shows that it's possible, but i'd rather see a really integrated cross messenger platform...
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Shooby said 1:15PM on 2-15-2007
Now if iChat could go multi-protocol and support MSN and Yahoo. OR if iChat like...bought out the Adium project and somehow brought in videochatting to MSN. The Mac is in desperate need of a decent full featured MSN client.
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longofest said 1:35PM on 2-15-2007
We had this covered in December at MacRumors, as others have mentioned. Not sure why TUAW is claiming an exclusive on this.
http://www.macrumors.com/2006/12/13/leopard-ichat-answering-machine/
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Mark said 8:55PM on 2-15-2007
I'd like to use iChat for the video functionality, but with a multitude of IM accounts (ICQ, AIM, GChat, and yes...MSN) I find that iChat is simply clunky compared to Adium.
Unfortunately Adium is sadly lacking in the video department.
No happy medium, it seems.
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