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    Image of AileenKremlin AileenKremlin
    08/24/09

    In reply to BlackBerry Bold Visual Voicemail Feature Now Live, OS Drops Tuesday
    Oh yeah and most important feature iPhone is WAY behind the on is Push Notifications, BlackBerry has had that forever! I switched from my iPhone 3G to a Bold and don't ever see me going back unless they come out with alot more!
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    Image of Dillinger23 Dillinger23
    08/24/09

    @AileenKremlin: Enjoy hard resetting a couple times a day
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    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    08/24/09

    @Dillinger23: I guess that is the downside of multitasking.

    And it's more like once per week.
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    Image of appletoad appletoad
    08/23/09

    In reply to BlackBerry Bold Visual Voicemail Feature Now Live, OS Drops Tuesday
    t-mobile needs to hurry the hell up with their visual voicemail so I can use it on my iphone.
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    Image of Dafrety Dafrety
    08/24/09

    @appletoad: T-Mobile has visual voice mail. I have it activated on my T-Mobile G1. They had to put me on a different data plan though. Before I was the plan specific to the G1, now I'm on a generic android plan. I had to call to get them to do it, too.
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    Striderhayasa - Can we get some damn m/kb support?! promoted this comment Edited by Dafrety at 08/24/09 1:17 AM Dafrety was starred Dafrety was unstarred
    Image of Sam Adams Sam Adams
    08/23/09

    In reply to BlackBerry Bold Visual Voicemail Feature Now Live, OS Drops Tuesday
    aaand how long has the iPhone had this?
    You know you're behind the times when the iPhone got a feature before you.
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    Jack Loftus promoted this comment Sam Adams was starred Sam Adams was unstarred
    Image of dan325013 dan325013
    08/23/09

    @Sam Adams: Seriously. I think it's great though that the Bold is finally getting this feature though. In general, I want all phones to eventually have this feature because I think it's pathetic that phone companies are still forcing their customers to use their crummy voicemail inbox service over the phone. Hopefully, services like Google Voice will help this as well.
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    Image of JonThomasDesigns JonThomasDesigns
    08/23/09

    In reply to BlackBerry Bold Visual Voicemail Feature Now Live, OS Drops Tuesday
    You can get it for only $50 with a plan now .. i just checked and amazon has a no activation fee deal going on now .. BlackBerry Bold 9000 Phone, Black (AT&T)
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    Image of MF350z: Wanting, at least, a silver star! MF350z: Wanting, at least, a silver star!
    08/23/09

    In reply to BlackBerry Bold Visual Voicemail Feature Now Live, OS Drops Tuesday
    This is one of my favorite things about my iPhone. glad to see other phones are using it as well. i'll have to let my sister know how to activate it.
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    Jack Loftus promoted this comment Edited by MF350z: Wanting, at least, a silver star! at 08/23/09 6:56 PM MF350z: Wanting, at least, a silver star! was starred MF350z: Wanting, at least, a silver star! was unstarred
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    07/30/09

    In reply to Visual Voicemail, AppPack Arrive On Android Market
    What app is that and can we get it on the iPhone?
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    07/30/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: ROFL. LMAO.

    Yes. Two exclamations regarding how funny that was was necessary. Welcome to the party, Droidboys.
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    07/30/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Nothing is that funny...
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    07/30/09

    @valkilmerisawful: .....in your opinion.
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    Image of all_hail_me all_hail_me
    07/20/09

    In reply to The iPhone's Visual Voicemail Is Broken For Many, How Is It For You?
    I have actually been having this issue on and off for the past year, it started occurring about the time i moved from Chicago to the Washington DC area.

    I seems to happen where ever I am, even if I have full service at the time someone leaves me a voice mail. Typically messages are delayed a couple hours, occasionally days. It almost cost me a job at one point.

    I was originally told that the problem was hardware related, but of course the apple warranty expired a couple days before hand. and i was unwilling to pay to get a new phone.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    07/20/09

    In reply to The iPhone's Visual Voicemail Is Broken For Many, How Is It For You?
    Everything's fine here in San Diego. And my Google Voice call forwarding to my iPhone still correctly identifies the originating phone number. Nice.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    07/20/09

    @EBone: PS iPhone 3G running OS 3.0.
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    07/20/09

    In reply to The iPhone's Visual Voicemail Is Broken For Many, How Is It For You?
    Man that is ridiculous! If the iPhone was on Sprint you wouldn’t have to worry about such foolishness as their network was built for millions and millions more users than they hav…

    On a serious note these exclusivity deals are ridiculous. While I have no desire to carry around a phone this large (I always have a laptop anyway) my wife would love to have one. Too bad I don’t ever plan on leaving Sprint (yes I’m one of the rare people that has NEVER had an issue that couldn’t be resolved in a 2 minute phone call).
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    Image of doul0s doul0s
    07/20/09

    In reply to The iPhone's Visual Voicemail Is Broken For Many, How Is It For You?
    i got this message from att today. Important AT&T FREE MSG: Your off-network wireless data usage is violating the terms of your contract. Please contact us.
    (i have an unlimited data plan and I have been living and using my iphone in this area for alomost a year.
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    tande04 mile island in the sun promoted this comment doul0s was starred doul0s was unstarred
    Image of tande04 tande04
    07/20/09

    @doul0s: I think thats about how long it takes them to figure it out. When the first iPhone came out I was just going to get it and use it roaming and the guy at the store said it would work for about a year.
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    Image of CoH CoH
    07/20/09

    In reply to The iPhone's Visual Voicemail Is Broken For Many, How Is It For You?
    I find that voicemails left at a time when my phone was out of service range only show up when a voicemail is left when the phone is in service range.

    Therefore as a possible work around I leave myself a message after I've been in the basement or put the phone in airline mode for a meeting, etc.

    This seems to be a workable patch, but having to diagnose the problem and solve it my self suck. But what do you expect from ATT? MMS ... ? Hello? When is android going to catch-up to the features of the iphone?
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    tande04 mile island in the sun promoted this comment CoH was starred CoH was unstarred
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    07/20/09

    @CoH: That sounds reasonable.
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    07/20/09

    In reply to The iPhone's Visual Voicemail Is Broken For Many, How Is It For You?
    This problem raises an interesting issue: How reliant everyone is on their cellphone these days. If it ever came up for a bailout, I bet ATT would be deemed too big to fail. So unfortunately, I'm guessing they won't be going anywhere.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    07/20/09

    @Purple Monkey Dishwasher: I hate to be the one to break it to you but all telecom companies are considered "Too Big To Fail".

    At the point of failure the FCC would take over day-to-day operations of their network.

    It doesn't matter if you're AT&T or some little ma and pa local telco for a rural community.
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    07/20/09

    @Purple Monkey Dishwasher: I don't think they are in danger of failing because one of the last things people will give up is their cell phone.
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    07/20/09

    In reply to The iPhone's Visual Voicemail Is Broken For Many, How Is It For You?
    Here's how to fix it.
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    Image of coloradogray coloradogray
    07/20/09

    In reply to The iPhone's Visual Voicemail Is Broken For Many, How Is It For You?
    I wonder how the visual voicemail T-Mobile will be rolling out for their android phones this summer will work out. I suppose if it does anything it will automatically be better than this.
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    tande04 mile island in the sun promoted this comment coloradogray was starred coloradogray was unstarred
    Image of tande04 tande04
    07/20/09

    @coloradogray: All the visual voicemail options out there now seem to work just fine.
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    Image of Chris Brennan Chris Brennan
    07/20/09

    In reply to The iPhone's Visual Voicemail Is Broken For Many, How Is It For You?
    False, mine works completely fine. in fact just got a voicemail the second after someone left it two minutes ago. No problems whatsoever.
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    Image of brianesser76 brianesser76
    07/20/09

    @Chris Brennan: Well, holy shit. I guess we can all go home now since you say it's false.
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    tande04 mile island in the sun promoted this comment brianesser76 was starred brianesser76 was unstarred
    Image of tande04 tande04
    07/20/09

    @brianesser76: Does his antidocial evidence really hold any less weight then Frucci's?
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    Image of brianesser76 brianesser76
    07/20/09

    @tande04 mile island in the sun: It does when there are others corroborating his claims. Just because your bedroom might not be filled with smoke, doesn't mean the house isn't on fire.
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    Image of Chris Brennan Chris Brennan
    07/20/09

    @brianesser76: ya that's the idea. I've always been told that if I'm not having the problem it must not exist (/sarcasm). I just think a lot of these comments stating that because of this post people are ditching their iPhones (most probably don't even have them to begin with) indicates that they werent experiencing the problem but now that Giz posts it.....it's a MEGA big deal
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    07/20/09

    @tande04 mile island in the sun: I believe the word you're looking for is anecdotal, and yes it does. One person not having a problem is no more substantial than one person having a problem, and in this case there are numerous people who are having problems.

    I don't know if its particular to a locality or what, but I've experienced the problem a number of times in the last two weeks or so, as have others that I know with an iPhone. On at least one occasion I was supposed to meet up with someone and we literally both left messages for each other and neither one got the message until hours later, so we didn't meet - and we were both peeved at the other for not calling.

    This is a big problem, particularly for those in cities where they may be out of coverage areas (in the subway, for instance) and not might know they've missed a call. It's also a problem because with visual voicemail there's no number to call to verify that you have no messages. Or at least I don't know of one. So if you think you might have messages but they're not displayed in VM then you just have to sit tight to see what comes later.

    I'm calling AT&T right now to complain. This is a big issue and I'm certainly not going to pay them all that money for this kind of service.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    07/20/09

    @brianesser76: Thats true, its just not a valid comparison.

    Adam asked a whole bunch of people he knew and they were complaining. There have been just as many people here saying they have no problem.

    If it really was a wide spread network wide problem I imagine there would be more about it. Sounds like Adam is having a localized problem.

    @weatherman: That would explain why I couldn't find it in google. I wasn't even close with the spelling.

    My point is the same as yours. Its a big step from saying "hey maybe this is a NY thing" to "the entire system is broken". There are just as many people saying theirs works fine (and all of their friend's works fine) as there are saying its broken.
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