Not sure what you mean by requires a smartphone. Hey, my phone isn’t THAT old. I got it about 3 years ago. I realize that’s an eternity in smartphone years, but it’s not like I’m carrying one of these:
From: Jason McKemie Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 4:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - alternative to VZ voicemail 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.)
