Google Voice rules! Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373
On Jul 14, 2016 5:36 PM, "Jason McKemie" <[email protected]> wrote: I use Google Voice for my voicemail, but it requires a smartphone AFAIK. On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a Motorola RAZR Maxx HD phone and depend heavily on Verizon's > "Visual Voicemail" (although I'd sure like to increase the 40 message > limit). > > VZ was sending me these confusing text messages about $2.99 Visual > Voicemail going away and the replacement Visual Voicemail would be the same > but free or something, I couldn't decipher what they were trying to tell me. > > Well, today my voicemail reverted to standard VM where you have to dial > *86 and step through the messages one at a time using the voice prompts. > That just won't work for me. After about 10 minutes on hold with VZ > customer support, they discovered the alerts should have said "our > outsourced voicemail vendor will stop supporting your device". So one > option would be to buy a new phone. > > Anybody have another suggestion? Is there a third party app in the Google > Play store that would work with VZ voicemail? The VZ support rep implied > that might be the case but VZ wouldn't support it. > > Or is there some kind of spiffy third party voicemail service that I could > set up my phone to forward to when busy or unavailable (a lot of my VZ > calls seem to go straight to VM without the phone ever ringing)? With an > Android app, and maybe lots of cool features and storage for more than 40 > messages? > > Or am I stuck buying a new phone just to get a working voicemail app? > > (Obviously the phone is more than 2 years old, but I won't sign a 2 year > contract for a phone anymore, if they even do that. I would end up buying > the new phone outright, so not talking chump change.) > >
