Friday, December 26, 2008

MagicJack Review: Voicemail

Voicemail overall is very nice but there are a few "missing" features that need to be added.

First the good stuff: Getting voicemails via email is very cool. Basically, when you miss a call and the person leaves a voice message, it gets emailed to you as a sound file that you can listen to. It also has a time/date stamp so you know when the call was made. You can also access your voicemail at any time from any phone (much like any voicemail service). When your MagicJack is off, phone calls get routed straight to voicemail, which is also nice.

My only complaints: First, you can't turn it off. You also can't set the number of rings before it picks up (it's set to 4 rings no matter what). Their workaround is to adjust the number of rings on your phone's answering machine to 3 if you don't want to use your voicemail. Unfortunately, my phone only has a setting for 2 and 4 rings. Sometimes my voicemail and answering machine will both pick up the call at the same time, and it's a crapshoot to which device the message gets routed to.

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