Visual Voicemail On Your Treo?

There are a lot of companies out there claiming that they can deliver the same visual voicemail capability as the one introduced on the iPhone. I can tell you that I have tried a few while still under the thumb of my previous carrier. CallWave was the best out of the ones that I tested. At the time, callWave didn't have it's Voicemail to email service that it employs now. It was the more basic SMS delivery and desktop widget.

Mytreo.net has it's hands on another service, Simulscribe. It looks like a good service, but it isn't free like callwave. There is a 60 day trial, and after that you'll get hit for $9.95 for 40 messages, ouch. I didn't see any "New Number" captions anywhere, which is something a lot of the other Visual Voicemail companies use, giving you a new number for you to foward your calls to. Why in the world would I want another phone number to give out or remember? Anyway, myTreo.net is a trustable Palm blog, so if they like it, it must be worth looking into.

Warning, the site list Sprint as one of the carriers Simulscribe works with. But I can tell you that the only reason I am not using CallWave is Sprint does not allow these types of services. Which I must say really angers me.

If simulscribe doesn't work for you, give CallWave a try, their customer service is the worst thing out there, the friggin worst. But their software is pretty good and it's free.

Comments

[Matt]

Sprint does allow it. I am using Simulscribe through sprint and it works fine.
Simulscribe basically knows the Sprint backdoor.

[Matt F]

I had the same experience as Matt. Sprint does allow it. You have to call in and have a customer service rep set the forwarding rules. When I called it took about half an hour for her to do, and even when she was done she still didn't understand what I was trying to do, but she did it and it worked. The thing that angers me is that sprint charges 10 cents a minute for every call that gets forwarded to Simulscribe or Callwave. That blows, especially since they don't have a competing product.