After learning this, I better understand the voicemail I receive when I call Khia for our interview: Yeah this is Khia but, this is the wrong day, and the wrong time, leave a message, and if it's about booking, I'll call you back even faster.
They've improved notifications to make it more obvious when you've got a missed call or voicemail, added better call history management, and now allow you to customize your voicemail greeting.
We deal with the doctor who leaves a voicemail saying "better get him in here STAT because he needs a transfusion," and then we deal with that doctor's office staff who wants to schedule it for next month.
But it showed that there is a better way to manage voicemails than to listen to 15 in a row just to get to the one you care about.
In the long run, potentially annoying your child with reminder text messages or voicemails is better than a late payment that harms your both of your credit scores.
You can listen to your voicemails from your browser or, better yet, read a transcribed version of each voicemail (via SpinVox).
In our test builds, however, VoiceCentral's voicemail interface was much better than GV Mobiles.
But as they get better, early applications will likely include voicemail transcription, in which speed matters less than keeping costs down (human transcription costs around 25 cents per message, far too high for mass-market adoption).
While our phones get bigger and better each and every month, our voicemail system has, for the most part, remained the same for over a decade.
If you're a salesperson, it's often a better tactic to leave an intriguing voicemail rather than a specific one.
