Vodafone Germany gets jiggy with Visual Voicemail too - kind of
Posted by Will on Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 3:59 pm under Vodafone, Services, Announcements
Vodafone Germany must be feeling a little left out of the iPhone party that’s sweeping through Europe right now. With T-Mobile Germany rumored to be getting exclusive dibs on the iPhone in the land of hefeweizen and sauerkraut (oh, and bratwurst and the Autobahn - can’t forget those!), Vodafone Germany must be thinking that the next best thing to actually carrying the iPhone would be to offer some of the iPhone’s best features.
No, we’re not talking about multi-touch or accelerometers. Vodafone Germany has launched their own “Visual Voicemail” service - they’re callin git “Visual Mailbox”. The service lets you visually peruse voicemails and delete skip over the ones that you just don’t care to listen to at the moment. But, unlike AT&T’s Visual Voicemail system for the iPhone, the Vodafone Germany Visual mailbox system will route received voicemails to the user’s MMS inbox. It’s kind of a round-about way to get visual access to your voicemail, but it sounds like a decent plan.
We’ll just stick with the iPhone’s integrated Visual Voicemail feature. We like being able to rewind, call back, delete, and view caller info at a whim. Oh, and the iPhone doesn’t have MMS support yet, so this method wouldn’t work on the iPhone anyway.
August 30th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
it’s written “Sauerkraut” !!!
August 30th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
> land of hefeweizen and saurkraut
You forgot: land of Autobahn! Driving to work at 200 km/h it’s kind of “nice”… I love it!
Greetings from Germany
August 30th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Sauerkraut! That’s what I meant!
Typo on the “e”
Ahh, and the Autobahn, that thing is God’s gift to driver’s everywhere. You lucky Germans get all the fun
I love BMW, my next car will be a BMW, and I will get it through European Delivery option so I can test out the Autobahn.
August 31st, 2007 at 3:05 am
You better buy a Mazda, the quality of german cars is not as good as you may expect…
And our politics work on a general speed limit on all our Autobahns (Autobahnen in german).
September 17th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
I love how the whole world has gone crazy for visual voicemail since the iphone. Honestly companies providing free online-based visual voicemail for all cell-users such as Youmail have been around long before the iphones release. Some of their systems are far more indepth and feature-rich as well.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:56 am
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