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Rogers rolling out “Visual Voicemail Plus” for select Android and BlackBerry devices in February
Rogers customers who have an iPhone have been using Visual Voicemail for a while now. Rather than dialling into your voicemail all the time, the service gives you the ability to listen (via audio file) or read (via text) the voice messages people leave on your device. New details have emerged that indicates Rogers will be expanding the service to BlackBerry and Android devices, plus any handset that supports picture messaging. The app is called “Visual Voicemail Plus” and is scheduled to be available in February – the main feature will give owners the option to save a voicemail message for an unlimited period of time. However, there are some limitations at launch – BlackBerry users who have the Bold 9700 and Torch 9800 will be the only supported devices. As for Android devices, the Sony Ericsson X10 and the Samsung Galaxy Q are the chosen ones.
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Source: Technapedia
(Thanks Gen!)
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Excited?
NO!
Only two phones at launch?
Both phones are old?
Nah, i’m not excited…
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The X10. GIVE ME A BREAK!
Though, I suppose it makes sense to try and restrict the roll-out for the first little while. Still, don’t understand why they don’t just allow for a “beta-test” for x number of accounts (that already may have voicemail…). Then again, I guess they want to charge for that privilege.
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This sounds like a promising feature, but probably means i’ll have to give up my rate plan, which has unlimited local calling. i won’t do that just to get “visual voicemail”.
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You would have to give up your plan to add A add-on that has nothing to do with your base plan? give your head a shake you dummy.
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Ummm nexus??? And is it free?
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Also, does this mean they will reduce the price of regular, old-fashioned voicemail, or keep gouging? Trend for AWS providers: charge extra for VM but Caller ID is free. Big 3′s reverse for TELUS, & Bell/Rogers include neither.
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AWS providers charge less for VM, overall though. Included in high tier plans, and cheaper charge per month otherwise.
But… I suspect Rogers will just add a new tier of pricing for this “feature”.
Plus, Telus’s voicemail is 3 messages. Which should be enough for most people, but… it is limited.
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As usual I suspect that Rogers (Robbers) will somehow add that 1 line of micro fine print stating some sort of extra charge.
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I have voicemail to text and I love it.
No time wasted having to open the dialer, dial the voicemail number, wait for prompts, enter passcode, wait for prompts, hit 1, listen to blahblahblah, hit 7, hit end.
Voicemail comes in, a text of the voice message is sent/received, I read the text, that’s it.
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If Google voice just opened up to Canada… we’d be in such great shape for shafting the big 3 on VM (including VM to text), text messaging, and long distance (possibly even unlimited minutes). Alas… Canada is like the backwater planet of telecom. :<
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Yeah, I have voicemail to text with Rogers already and it’s fantastic. The only problem is that for some reason it always sends me two text messages for each voicemail.
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I was sad when Rogers would not yet support VVM on Windows Phone, but then I heard from an iPhone user that they charge extra for this? WTF?
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Excited? No. @Accophox, I’m using Google Voice. There is a way to set it up in Canada. This is a feature that has been in Google Voice for awhile and is free.
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How did you set up Google Voice? I’ve been trying for over a week now because I want to use Google Voice Lite. Do you have any guides?
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Well.. Rogers… Another useless and rip off feature. How about you try to compete with your prices??? IS that so difficult for you?
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@Luca, I’m using the full version of Google Voice. I can’t help with Lite.
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@Netguru, you can choose which to use. I just can’t find a guide that actually works. Do you have one?
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@Luca, there is no guide per se. Just do a search for Google Voice Canada and you will find the workaround to 1) get a Google Voice phone number and 2) forward the GV number to a Canadian number.
I suspect Lite will not work with a Canadian number directly. You will still need to set up a US number first.
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@Netguru, then scrap that.
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isnt this just like the voicemail to text feature telus and bell have had for a really long time? guess rogers isnt first at everything after all.
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Netguru: doesn’t that mean that all contacts have to call a US number to reach you (which then gets forwarded to your Canadian number)?
Convenient for us gv users, but expensive for our family & friends.
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Jeremy, no I use GV mainly to call people in Canada and the US. People in Canada call my Canadian number. People in the US can call me on GV but most just call my Canadian number.
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@Alex Perrier
Telus includes VM (3 msgs) in their plans. Bell does not I know.
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