Voicemail Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

YouMail updates, now allows 'numberless messaging'

by Mike Schramm (Oct 2nd, 2012)

We covered YouMail back in February of last year -- it's a voicemail replacement app for iOS, which allows you to access and send voicemails completely outside of the standard voicemail interface. If you use voicemail a lot, YouMail features a lot of extra options and ways to handle all of ...

Apple sued by patent holder Brandywine over voicemail

by Steven Sande (Feb 23rd, 2012)

It's tough when you're at the top of your game, because everybody wants to shoot you down. A new lawsuit against Apple by Brandywine Communications Technologies claims that our buddies in Cupertino are infringing on two patents that vaguely describe mobile voicemail. And who is Brandywine? If your ...

Win a year of basic service from YouMail, the voicemail replacement service

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 25th, 2011)

I reviewed YouMail last week, and now we've got 10 codes to give away allowing you access to the basic features of the voicemail replacement service. By replacement, I mean YouMail supercedes your current voicemail system (provided by your carrier), and extends the ability to check your ...

YouMail provides an option to Google Voice for your voicemail needs

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 14th, 2011)

YouMail is a voicemail replacement for your iPhone, but it's also available for Android and BlackBerry phones. It aims to give you a more efficient, share-able voicemail system across platforms. I've been testing YouMail for a couple of days, and I think the first thing people will want to know is: ...

Verizon iPhone orders already shipping

by David Quilty (Feb 3rd, 2011)

Those of you who placed your pre-order for the Verizon iPhone 4 early this morning may be in for a nice surprise tomorrow, as TUAW reader Cameron from The 9magnets Blog wrote in to let us know that his VZW iPhone has apparently already shipped. A screenshot of his order (and the corresponding ...

Verizon iPhone prep: Save your old voicemail, it's not coming with you

by David Quilty (Feb 2nd, 2011)

Thinking of picking up a new iPhone 4 for your Verizon account in the coming weeks? Macworld's review is already up, as are Engadget's, Techcrunch's and Wired's (spoiler: it's an iPhone 4!). But if you want to save any of those all-important legacy voicemails during the setup process, be sure to ...

I've upgraded to iOS 4: Now what?

by TJ Luoma (Jun 21st, 2010)

You've upgraded your iPhone to iOS 4, and you're anxious to play with all sorts of new and wonderful features. Before you do that, take a few minutes to make sure everything is working as expected. Here's a list of things to confirm. They aren't in any particular order, and not all of them will ...

Line2 adds a second line to your iPhone for $15 a month

by Steven Sande (Feb 26th, 2010)

Would you like to add a second line to your iPhone? Perhaps you'd like to add a business number to the phone, but your existing phone is currently tied to your personal mobile number. You could always carry a second phone, but that's an expensive proposition, particularly if you're an iPhone ...

First Look: Voices for iPhone

by John Burke (Nov 19th, 2009)

Novelty and social applications are a big hit on the iPhone. A new one from the folks of Taptivate is sure to be a big hit when it is released in the near future. Voices for iPhone is touted as an "audio recorder with a twist" and even a "social voicemail" utility. With Voices [iTunes Link], ...

David Pogue and his 'Take Back the Beep' campaign

by Mel Martin (Jul 31st, 2009)

David Pogue, who writes on tech for the New York Times had an interesting and thoughtful column yesterday. He's been complaining about the ridiculously long messages the cellular carriers stick on to the end of your voicemail message. He's right, too. But what I hadn't realized was that these ...

SMS texting and voicemail support come with latest Skype update

by Sang Tang (Jun 30th, 2009)

Skype (iTunes link) has been updated to 1.1, which brings it some new features making it more closely resemble its desktop sibling. So, what's new? Well, there's now support for Skype voicemail (subscription needed) and SMS text messaging. However, SMS texting is not bidirectional. Which means that ...

A different kind of Voicemail

by Mel Martin (Mar 11th, 2009)

A new app for the iPhone has made its way to the App Store. VoiceMail, $0.99, lets you record a message and send it to a friend on a PC or Mac, or even on an iPhone. I tried the app several times and found it a frustrating experience. First, you click on 'send mail' and the app brings up a list ...

iPhone 2.0 supports playback of WAV voicemail

by Michael Rose (Jul 16th, 2008)

If you've been aggravated at your iPhone or iPod touch in the past for its inability to play back WAV voicemail files from home phone services like Vonage or AT&T (synergy foul! yellow card), you may now breathe easier. TJ Luoma was 95% through building a rather elaborate script to convert ...

Trick your iPhone voicemail into using voice recording data

by Erica Sadun (Aug 9th, 2007)

The other day, I discussed how to record audio on your iPhone. Several people wrote in asking whether they could have their recordings show up in voicemail, so I scouted around a bit. I discovered that voicemail is stored in ~/Library/Voicemail and that it uses an sqlite3-compatible database to ...

iChat 4.0 Voicemail

by Dan Lurie (Feb 15th, 2007)

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 ...