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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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...
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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.
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/
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.
February 15 2007 at 1:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyhopefully 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...
February 15 2007 at 12:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyEr, that's:
http://macbigot.blogspot.com/2006/12/call-me-anytime-on-my-new-aim-voice.html
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.
I can't wait to see this in action!
February 15 2007 at 11:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe 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)
http://www.macrumors.com/2006/12/13/leopard-ichat-answering-machine/
February 15 2007 at 9:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYes, 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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