When voicemail first came out, it was touted as a huge improvement over simply missing someone who's not there. By integrated an "answering machine" like functionality into the phone, we also brought over all the old paradigms which we associate with such systems. Answering machines today seem incredibly archaic constructions. The messages stored on it are specific to that device alone and are susceptible to getting lost if something happens to it. Also, your space on the machine is limited so you're forced to keep deleting them one by one. Perhaps most frustrating is the concept of having to scroll through each message before getting to the one you want and there's no simple way to transfer the messages on one machine to another format or store them for future reference.
Voicemail follows all these faults but because we're so used to the old way of doing things we rarely even realize how inconvenient it is and how things can actually be much better. For those with an active communication network at home or in business, leaving the phone for a short amount of time can get frustrating when you come back and have a bunch of voicemails waiting for you. Managing them is nowhere near as easy as managing your email. But it should be no?
VoIP as an Internet application has the ability to manage your voicemail in the same way you manage other electronic communications like email and chat. Meaning it can be sent as an MP3 directly to your email, where you can use your regular intuitive GUI interface for getting to it when you wish. You can even have it transcribed (as imperfect as it may be) and managing it is up to you. You never have to delete them just like you never delete your email or attachments and neither do you have to lose your voicemails when you use another device.
Perhaps best of all, there's no link between the device you happen to be using at the time and your voicemail. It's stored in the cloud and VoIP allows you to access it from your smartphone when you're away, your computer at home and of course your regular office phone as well. The choice is yours, you're not constrained, and you'll never miss an important call when you're unavailable. Of course with VoIP, you will be unavailable less often since the same telephone number can ring every device no matter where you are. It's all about flexibility and it puts you back in charge
Voicemail follows all these faults but because we're so used to the old way of doing things we rarely even realize how inconvenient it is and how things can actually be much better. For those with an active communication network at home or in business, leaving the phone for a short amount of time can get frustrating when you come back and have a bunch of voicemails waiting for you. Managing them is nowhere near as easy as managing your email. But it should be no?
VoIP as an Internet application has the ability to manage your voicemail in the same way you manage other electronic communications like email and chat. Meaning it can be sent as an MP3 directly to your email, where you can use your regular intuitive GUI interface for getting to it when you wish. You can even have it transcribed (as imperfect as it may be) and managing it is up to you. You never have to delete them just like you never delete your email or attachments and neither do you have to lose your voicemails when you use another device.
Perhaps best of all, there's no link between the device you happen to be using at the time and your voicemail. It's stored in the cloud and VoIP allows you to access it from your smartphone when you're away, your computer at home and of course your regular office phone as well. The choice is yours, you're not constrained, and you'll never miss an important call when you're unavailable. Of course with VoIP, you will be unavailable less often since the same telephone number can ring every device no matter where you are. It's all about flexibility and it puts you back in charge
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