E-mail style voicemail.
All, I have some questions I hope people could help with. I couldn't help but notice that the iphone(sorry for the swear word) used a e-mail type interface for viewing voice mails. That feature looks very interesting to me. Now I am sure they have that pattented but does anybody know what about it they pattented? I was thinking about this, as I would like to have it on the Neo as I will buy one, what if this was on the neo also. So I got to thinking how one could do this and I came up with an idea. So here is my idea and please tell me if it's stupid and why, it's already been pattented, or that's a good idea here is how you could improve on it. First instead of routing the call to the service providers voice mail after so many calls, have it get routed to the neo's onboard voice mail system. This system could record the audio save it and add an e-mail like layer to it like, SuchAndSuch person called @ 9:30 pm 03/26/07 1 min 23 sec for example. It could then save them on the phone. Now I know this is kind of memory expensive so I thought of some other alternatives to this also. If you want the advanced feature of listening to the calls in whatever order you heard them in then you would have to save them on the phone it's self or upload the audio samples to a webserver of some sort and when connected you could listen to them in what ever order. Another approach if the person didn't want the wasted space could still see the messages in a e-mail type invironment but couldn't listen to the messages in what ever order for the neo after recording when the call was made by who and finishes recording the message could then route the call to the service providers voice mail and send it the recorded message. Now I don't know difficult this would be. And I can't say that I am experianced enough with this, although I would like to be, to impliment it myself. I just thought I could post my idea to the community to try and add my $0.02 to help better the community. Please let me know what you think. Thanks, Matt ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: E-mail style voicemail.
Hey Matthew. My understanding is that Wildfire had an interface vaguely like this in the 90's, and at least one Canon voice-mail / desktop mash-up device had a voice-mail system where entries were presented as a list on a screen. So I would be real surprised if Apple tried to patent the concept of listing voice-mails the same way email clients list email messages. The main problem with the approach you outline here is that if the phone is turned off or out of the cell service, you couldn't connect with the on-board anything. But it's a great idea for do not disturb behavior. I came up with something conceptually similar... I live in the sticks, so I don't have mobile service at my house. As I drive into the office, I have intermittent service. I had really bad service in my old office building so I came up with the following solution. 1. Forward cell calls to my asterisk box. 2. If my SIP phone isn't registered or I don't answer, take a message. 3. Send a SMS message to my phone that's intercepted by the voice mail app. 4. When the voice mail app receives the SMS message, it establishes a net connection to my asterisk box and downloads the message to my phone. One of the things I like about programmable phones is it allows the device to become a 1st class peer. That is, it's not longer dependent on a server for data operations. So if you have the DND (Do Not Disturb) mode activated, maybe the phone could take a message and forward it to the server. Then you would have the message right there on the phone, and it would be made available on the server as well. The reason I like to have voice mail on a server is: a. I can archive the messages. b. I can annotate the messages via a PC. i.e. - I'm using the nice, comfortable keyboard on the PC. c. I can access my voice mail with a web interface, if I want. But a couple reasons why you might prefer the server to take the message and forward it to the phone... a. you're going to burn minutes on the oncoming call (but I guess this isn't an issue outside the US.) b. the call quality might be better when you're connecting to the server on the other end of a land-line. But.. I think it's a great option for DND. Implementing it shouldn't be too big of a hassle. -Cheers -Matt H. On Mar 26, 2007, at 2:20 PM, mathew davis wrote: All, I have some questions I hope people could help with. I couldn't help but notice that the iphone(sorry for the swear word) used a e- mail type interface for viewing voice mails. That feature looks very interesting to me. Now I am sure they have that pattented but does anybody know what about it they pattented? I was thinking about this, as I would like to have it on the Neo as I will buy one, what if this was on the neo also. So I got to thinking how one could do this and I came up with an idea. So here is my idea and please tell me if it's stupid and why, it's already been pattented, or that's a good idea here is how you could improve on it. First instead of routing the call to the service providers voice mail after so many calls, have it get routed to the neo's onboard voice mail system. This system could record the audio save it and add an e-mail like layer to it like, SuchAndSuch person called @ 9:30 pm 03/26/07 1 min 23 sec for example. It could then save them on the phone. Now I know this is kind of memory expensive so I thought of some other alternatives to this also. If you want the advanced feature of listening to the calls in whatever order you heard them in then you would have to save them on the phone it's self or upload the audio samples to a webserver of some sort and when connected you could listen to them in what ever order. Another approach if the person didn't want the wasted space could still see the messages in a e-mail type invironment but couldn't listen to the messages in what ever order for the neo after recording when the call was made by who and finishes recording the message could then route the call to the service providers voice mail and send it the recorded message. Now I don't know difficult this would be. And I can't say that I am experianced enough with this, although I would like to be, to impliment it myself. I just thought I could post my idea to the community to try and add my $0.02 to help better the community. Please let me know what you think. Thanks, Matt ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
RE: E-mail style voicemail.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:community- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew S. Hamrick Sent: Monday, 26 March 2007 5:49 PM To: mathew davis Cc: OpenMoko community; SVHMPC Subject: Re: E-mail style voicemail. I came up with something conceptually similar... I live in the sticks, so I don't have mobile service at my house. As I drive into the office, I have intermittent service. I had really bad service in my old office building so I came up with the following solution. 1. Forward cell calls to my asterisk box. 2. If my SIP phone isn't registered or I don't answer, take a message. 3. Send a SMS message to my phone that's intercepted by the voice mail app. 4. When the voice mail app receives the SMS message, it establishes a net connection to my asterisk box and downloads the message to my phone. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community Hi Mathew, I think once OpenMoko becomes more prevalent I think you'll find there are a number of hosted asterisk related applications that are released for Neo handset users. I've already spoken with a few people interested in developing mixed mobile/fixed line voice driven applications for both communities. A smarter voicemail system than what is currently provided by your carrier is just one of them. Regards, Dean Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-212-203-4357 Ph +1-917-207-3420 Mb +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). http://click.mexuar.com/webuser/click/7/userurl/Cognation http://click.mexuar.com/webuser/nojs/7/userurl/Cognation www.Mexuar.com http://www.mexuar.com/ Want to voice enable your website? Use Corraleta to reach your customers in 10 seconds or less. image001.gif Description: image001.gif ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: E-mail style voicemail.
I'm not sure if it is possible to download the voicemails, but in germany vodafone will start sending voicemails as multimedia message to the phone ... maybe some other providers will do the same in the future .. but I have to admit that this is something, the openmoko community cannot influence ... bye martin ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: E-mail style voicemail.
Cool. I keep telling people that the reason I'm building my own mobile is that I want to prototype the thing that I want T-Mobile to sell me for $50 next year. I've chatted with the local T-Mob guys about this exact solution and was greeted with blank stares. Now I'll be able to add the suffix... Just like Vodafone does. -Cheers! -Matt H. On Mar 26, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Martin Raißle wrote: I'm not sure if it is possible to download the voicemails, but in germany vodafone will start sending voicemails as multimedia message to the phone ... maybe some other providers will do the same in the future .. but I have to admit that this is something, the openmoko community cannot influence ... bye martin ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
