PhoneFusion Brings Enhanced Visual Voicemail to BlackBerry
If you haven’t yet heard of Fusion Voicemail Plus by PhoneFusion, prepare to be impressed. In a nutshell, Fusion Voicemail Plus centralizes all of your voicemail boxes and presents your voicemail messages visually on your mobile handset. Instead of receiving voicemails in separate boxes for your mobile number, home number, VoIP number, office number, etc everything goes to your PhoneFusion One voicemail box. The messages are then displayed visually on your handset a la iPhone. Each entry displays caller info and incoming number along with your number corresponding to the relevant phone service (so you know if the caller dialed your mobile number or home number for example). And did we mention that the service is completely free? Excellent. Phone Fusion has a long-standing history providing the Fusion Voicemail Plus service for Windows Mobile. The service is currently in beta for BlackBerry but expect a solid offering upon signing up. To get going, simply hit the read link and enter your info. You’ll see a message that your handset is not currently supported but you can then sign up for the beta. After Doing so, you’ll get an SMS on your mobile with a download link to snag the BlackBerry app. Beyond BlackBerry, Phone Fusion is also currently working on cooking up Symbian, Android, Linux Mobile, Palm and Java versions as well. Tie Fusion Voicemail Plus in with a voicemail to text service like SpinVox and you’ve most definitely got our vote for President.
[Via Press Release]
user guides for this product availale at http://support.phonefusion.com/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=view&parentcategoryid=3&pcid=0&nav=0
Should note that this was released as a FREE BETA. Their CS and programmers seem quick to respond to the probs that are arising. Working well on all 3 BB and 2 WM devices I have running. if there are issues, submit them to support.phonefusion.com so that anything that they are not working on or have resolved already can be. I was assured that the “link” issue will be resolved entirely by tonight. Also, confident that a big reason why messages haven’t shown up on apps running ok is that the no answer/busy transfer set up throuh carrier takes a bit to kick in on the carrier side sometimes.
Thanks for the info! I won’t complain about not receiving my sms anymore…well not until tomorrow
Sprint users:
Call 611 from your device and ask for “conditional” call forwarding to be set up – they will do it, it’s free and I tested it.
called 611 from sprint device and requested conditional call forwarding to be activated, they did so at no cost and it worked.
I now know why I am not getting the voice mails: I signed up with my gmail address, not my BB one, which I never use….Don’t make this mistake! Still waiting to see if they can switch the email associated w/ the account, since I can’t find a way to do it myself. Not a complaint–my own fault!
i can’t get this thing to work on my 7130e on verizon. i get an error when trying to open the application. “Error starting com_phonefusion_voicemailplus_bb_voicemailplus: class ‘javax.microedition.media.protocol.datasource’ not found.
anyone know how to fix this?
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Or Something.. I too am getting this same error. I have a 7105T (Sad and Depressing I know, May my pearl R.I.P.) Anyone think this could be a side effect of having crappy 4.1 OS?
The BB support document says you must have 4.2 or better, so yes, I’d say that was your problem. Sorry!
Does their service work for WM. I got a email this morning, but it was for the BBB jar.
I did the download yesterday, and it worked fine. I like the service.
One note. I didn’t get an SMS link, just opened the email on my BB and went from there.
It’s worth it once you get it installed.
Considering that push email is the only thing Retards in Motion had going for it, one would have thought those d.bags would have been first to market with it. But no, the long winters in Canada have put their brains into hibernation. They will always chase Apple’s tail.
They will be the microsoft of mobile phone, always playing catchup.
SimulScribe/PhoneTag has been doing a great job for me for several months (integrating the visual voicemail with converting voice-to-text). It’s not free, but neither is adding SpinVox to PhoneFusion to try to fit together something comparable.
@ camel jockey
WM5 and WM6 is superior to the trimmed sown OSX mobile that’s running on the iPhone. There isn’t one feature on the iPhone that hasn’t already been out for WM devices. Some people prefer function over form.
Congratulations the 3G phone.
Hi there – my name is Bianca Hennings and I’m an exec @ PhoneFusion. We would be MORE than happy to help you with this. Please email us vis support@phonefusion.com and you will be more than pleased with our top quality customer care!
Hi Sarah! I wanted to follow up with you to make sure you received an answer from our support team. Given the overwhelming response to the beta release they’ve been busy, but seem to be all caught up now! Let me know and please know we’re here to help! Thank you! BTW, my name is Bianca Hennings and I’m an exec here at PhoneFusion.
You need to set up the conitional call forwarding through your carrier. Feel free to contact us via support@phonefusion.com and we would be more than happy to assist you with this! Hope you enjoy the service!
@Bianca
I’ve been trying to get the WM link for a day and a half. I saw that this was available for WM devices, if I’m incorrect, could you please let me know, so that I can stop pursuing this.
Got the link from their friendly customer service. Works great on a 8525.
looks more like a traffic light to me, oh and dint work either,, froze and …….froze again
Hmmm….for all of you hyping this up, have you downloaded it yet? Tried it? I have. Shame it rarely displays the name of who’s calling. It’s limited the software maker says to what information the caller’s provider is willing to give out. I had several people on different carriers call and guess what? no name. Pretty important unless you want to memorize everyone’s phone number in your entire address book….and mines around 900 by now. Simulsays is really the only decent app for this…
@1adonis1
http://www.phonefusion.com/downloads/pfvvm.cab
Well not sure if other carriers charge for call forwarding like Sprint. Thats the only thing that is stopping me from getting any sort of visual voicemail service.
why the hell dont any of you guys make a visual voicemial app for canadians huh