Free SpinVox invites, Voicemail isn’t dead
I love voicemail
I just don’t love it the way Mike hates it 
“Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they’ll stop using it”
It used to be dead to me until I found SpinVox a couple of years ago, previously I would hardly listen to my voicemail and if I missed you well that was your tough luck.
Now its changed.
Now you leave you message for me, SpinVox converts it to text and sends it to me as an SMS and an email, I come out of meetings to a perfectly formed “2do list”, if I don’t want to speak to you I never have to but I never miss a message now.
It works perfect when I am abroad also as MAXroam has free incoming SMS so I don’t pay for any of my voice mails no matter where I am on the planet.
To celebrate the rebirth of voicemail SpinVox uber geek James Whatley has given me 3 SpinVox test accounts to give away, don’t worry about access numbers or anything like that MAXroam will look after the telephony side and SpinVox will look after the Voicemail.
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this sounds like the perfect app for an Iphone to avoid those dreaded costs of O2 and the 15 min per min for voicemail.
Count me in kind sir.
That is so cool. Can I enter for the hubby? He so needs that! Feckin scribbled notes all over the place with numbers and messages taken down in a hurry, if he could just get a text it would be so much easier.
Voicemail is not dead, but you can see how it could become a thing of the past. I was a spinvox fan, until I lost my trial account
If they launched in Ireland, I’d sign up tomorrow. Here is what I thought of it. http://is.gd/NdD
Spinvox sounds just what I want – my use of voice-mail is nearly as bad as yours used to be. I love the idea of the 2 do list after being incommunicado
I hate using my voicemail and need spinvox .
Happy to oblige Mr Arrington too. Asked him which service he used, (if at all), on the comments of his original post… alas – he didn’t get the message.
Voicemail’s not dead so long as we still have mothers …
Voicemail’s not dead, it’s just been Spinvoxed out to email and text, thank god.
Revive your voicemail, link it to Twitter via Spinvox – that’ll teach ‘em
Interesting! Check out http://www.smstextnews.com this coming Thursday for my review of Spinvox and yes Spinvox is the new voicemail.
oooh shiny,
are they planning it just for mobiles?
or could i forward my office voicemail as sms to my mobile?
now that would be uber handy
Pat – thanks for sharing about Spinvox – I wasn’t aware of the platform before you Tweeted about it.
I love the idea of connecting it to MAXroam when travelling too.
I do like voicemail to aid me being more productive but Spinvox definately gives it an additional dimension.
You could also create your own reminders – I do very often – even the shopping list or the list of things to pack for vacation
@Krishna De
Tried that -
http://whatleydude.vox.com/library/post/speaking-freely-3.html
I agree with Pat. I’ll ignore my voicemails or sometimes let my storage fill up while I am traveling to avoid having to wade through the messages while roaming (expensive!). I’d love to try the alternative to voicemail and will sign up for SpinVox through an invite or whenever it’s generally available.
I’m personally not a voicemail fan but do find myself leaving voicemail messages all the time… Also, I usually don’t pick up my cell phone if I get a call from someone who is not in my addressbook. Usually, I rather them leave a message and if I see that I need to talk to the person after they left a message, then I’ll call them back.
Aydin.
This is great, I never bother to check my voicemails and sometimes they’re actually important, only minor concern with that is that I’ve noticed that sometimes when in Europe outside of major cities my sms’s only come in spuratically, Haven’t yet tried with maxroam in these areas though (t-mobile usa seems to have some issues at times with roaming agreements)
Pat, yet again i owe you a favour, im the worlds worst for checking messages. Great idea for an application, this has to be a multi million dollar idea.
That solution is a Columbus’ egg! really nice.
I hope to get one of the three invites.
I hate voicemail. It’s unreliable, messages can take for ever to get through, you have to go through the sequentially, and, and and… voicemail to text sounds great to me. And I’d love to hear how it handles Cork accents!
Virgin Mobile in Oz provided this service to their customers, it was brilliant. It is especially handy if you are often stuck in long meetings or in an area with bad coverage as txt messages get through easier than calls in or out
The service in Australia had some problems with different accents etc. I would like to see how well this one works if there is a trail going.
I remember about 8 years ago being hugely impressed by a Swiss mobile company that emailed the voicemails to the users email account – so instead of dialling the voicemail access that you could click on the mp3 in your inbox.
Would love to trial Spinvox…..
Hopefully they will include Ireland soon!
I run my business on my cell phone. Voicemail destroys that illusion and sounds really unprofessional. Found this company at RingAlice.com that kills your voicemail, replacing it with a person who takes your unanswered calls. Really revolutionary, has that personal human touch, and sounds very sophisticated for $30.