I have the same phone (Droid RAZR Maxx HD). Darn nice phone. All of our
other phones are some kind of VOIP thing, which have decent voicemail
features. My home phone is Google Voice. That's nice because in addition
to the voice mail, it also sends an email and text with a transcript of
the voice message. The transcript usually has some kind of transcription
error, but it also usually gets the point across.
bp
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On 7/14/2016 2:59 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
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:
marty_cooper_dynatac_phone
*From:* Jason McKemie <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Thursday, July 14, 2016 4:36 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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.)
