Hi James
You are certainly correct to some extent . These type of features ARE useful . I
myself would like to use them. But why are you segregating these voice features
with web/email/WAP?? To be more specific using WAP, we can easily incorporate
these features in today's cellular phone. Rember , in WAP we have some thing
called the WTAI ( Wireless Telephony Application Interface ) that provides
services like auto call back, voice mail etc to mobile handset via concept of
WTA Server.
Internet has the power to be available to us any time anywhere , and we should
use this facility as effectively as possible either via wireline links or
Wireless
cheers
Aditya
"James P. Salsman" wrote:
> Where, and by whom, is wireless service with the following features offered?
>
> 1. An option for incoming telephone calls to go directly to voicemail,
> transmitting spoken messages asynchronously to a buffer inside the telephone
> transceiver, using a reliable transport of high quality audio. Messages
> could thereby be played back in regions without good RF conditions, and
> replayed any number of times without incurring additional airtime charges.
>
> 2. A means to send voice messages to email destinations with an Internet
> message containing a URL pointing to a web server with a choice of audio
> formats from which the message would be played back. Again, it would be
> preferable if such messages were buffered on the telephone transceiver,
> sent reliably, asynchronously, and using high quality audio, because RF
> congestion could cease to be a significant problem if circuit-switched
> telephone connections were replaced with the flexibility of packet TDMA.
>
> 3. A means to send similarly asynchronous messages to telephone
> destinations with an automated outbound call announcing the message sent
> and offering to play the message upon a touch-tone response, or announcing
> the telephone and access numbers with which the message can be retrieved
> (in case the announcement ends up in the recipient's voicemail.)
>
> 4. A means to send instructions for retrieving such messages using
> numeric page or SMS messages for other wireless destinations.
>
> 5. A means for recipients of messages as described in 2-4 above to reply
> with spoken or numeric or short text messages. The identity of the message
> being replied to should be clear from the characteristics of the reply.
>
> 6. A serial port on the telephone transceiver providing a PPP link to a
> laptop, palmtop, desktop, or server with severed net connection, etc.
>
> Any one of those features would provide far more value to me and most of
> the people I know than WAP.
>
> Who was/will be first to market with them?
>
> Asynchronous voice messaging is very useful when replies are easy --
> which is not the case with most voicemail systems in use today.
> Effective asynchronous voice messaging will be a more important
> application than either web or email service on wireless platforms
> because the portable nature of wireless devices is simply antithetical
> to bulky keyboards and large displays.
>
> Cheers,
> James
