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Blackberry Bold
09/09/09

In reply to Pogue: AT&T Drops Inane Paging Option From Voicemail Chatter
U mean AT&T actually listens to their customers?
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Wilson Rothman
09/09/09

@hcho3: If your customers have an army of a million Twitter followers, yep.
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OCEntertainment
09/09/09

In reply to Pogue: AT&T Drops Inane Paging Option From Voicemail Chatter
Awesome. Everybody else, please follow suit?
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Benguin
08/14/09

In reply to "Take Back the Beep" Voicemail Crusade Takes Back Its First Beeps
I don't know about the rest of you, but my voicemail on AT&T always has went straight from ringing, to my prerecorded message, to beep. No computer voice lady interjecting at any point whatsoever.

Another tip for AT&T mailboxes, hitting 0 during someone's prerecorded message will skip it and go straight to the beep.
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SBM_from_LA
08/14/09

In reply to "Take Back the Beep" Voicemail Crusade Takes Back Its First Beeps
In regarding the carrier charging it's users to retrieve their voice messages, the original AT&T (before the Cingular merger) allowed users to to access their voice mail from any telephone (land line) to listen to their messages. I used to do that a lot. Unfortunately, after Cingular took over, they put a stop to that. Another thing... the Original AT&T also allowed FREE unlimted incoming sms (text messages), which was great. I used to have my Yahoo Messenger set up to send all my messages to my phone when I was not at my computer.. Those were the days..

I really wish there were companies in this world today that didn't worship money as their god, but unfortunately, there isn't a single one in existence. Like the bible says, you can't worship both God and money... you can only have one master...
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SwapMeet
08/14/09

@SBM_from_LA: I thought you could still access AT&T voicemail from a landline. I did it last year while in Cancun.
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zenpoet
08/14/09

@SwapMeet: I think you still can. While we are on the topic of memories, at one point back when cell phones were still new, and 10 cents a minute wasn't uncommon, my carrier allowed you to forward your phone to any number for free, even if it was long distance, and it didn't keep track of your minutes of use when you did that.

Of course, anyone with any brains figured out that you just needed to forward your phone to who ever you wanted to talk to, then called your cell phone. The only draw back was forgetting to change it back, and the other person would receive your calls for a while.
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ScottRose
08/14/09

@SBM_from_LA: Verizon still has this feature: you call your own number from any other phone and hit pound during the outgoing message.

I know on my old work-Blackberry (with ATT) the VM number was programmed into the phone. I could call that number from any land line or my personal (VZW) cell phone and get my messages after entering my mailbox # (phone #). This is as of ~6 mos. ago.
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FritzLaurel
08/13/09

In reply to "Take Back the Beep" Voicemail Crusade Takes Back Its First Beeps
Great, now can we get Gizmodo to FIX THEIR FREAKING COMMENT SYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Iron Man Underoos
08/14/09

@FritzLaurel: Sorry, I'm colorblind. I can't read your post since it's in gray.
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DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
08/14/09

@Iron Man Underoos: There. Fixed that for ya.
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Jeb_Hoge
08/13/09

In reply to "Take Back the Beep" Voicemail Crusade Takes Back Its First Beeps
You know, I want to be sympathetic to Pogue's objective but the truth is that Verizon is right...more people rely on those messages than he thinks. I write user documentation for a living, and over the past few years especially, I've continually had to adjust my assumptions downward over and over about what people can intuitively understand. If you can't show someone a picture, you have to be very specific and very descriptive, and I've seen grown, intelligent adults freeze up looking at simple web interfaces if someone's not telling them exactly what to do.
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P3nnst8r
11/04/08

In reply to Astronauts Cast Votes From Space, But It's Only One Regular Vote For Mankind
Lies. It was in that canister that reentered the atmosphere this past week.
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