Lars here has the right idea, I think. But I'd like to take it a step back and forward again. Instead of letting the Asterix box send back beeps after a query, the Neo just keeps track of the information sent from the Asterix via SMS, and displays it as a list of voicemails to call. And then when a user clicks on a voicemail, the phone can use either the voice or IP as a data line to query the Asterix box for the correct voicemail.
<br><br>Wilhelm<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lars-Peter Clausen</b> <<a href="mailto:lars@laprican.de">lars@laprican.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ted Lemon wrote:<br>> On Jan 19, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Austin Taylor wrote:<br>>> Think like a hacker. Why couldn't we scrape it?<br>><br>> Think like a developer: how can we make it work? Think like an<br>
> entrepreneur: is there a solution here that we can offer? Can we<br>> transform GSM-as-usual into a transport? If GSM is just the tube you<br>> use to get to the mobile device, and the number that you call isn't
<br>> the GSM number, then you can intercede if the call isn't answered and<br>> capture the voicemail, perhaps in an Asterix PBX. Once you have the<br>> voicemail, the phone can download it next time it has IP
<br>> connectivity. Voila: visual voicemail, no scraping needed.<br>><br>> The question is, is this a service anyone would go to the trouble to<br>> use? In some ways it would suck - no way to notify the phone that
<br>> the voicemail is present if you're off the IP network.<br>><br>> I think it's a ripe place to do some research, but whether it is<br>> actually useful, we'd have to see. Personally, nothing against
<br>> Cingular, but if I have to switch to them to get this feature, it's<br>> not worth it to me - I quite like t-mobile as a carrier in general.<br><br>When I thought about this i got a similar solution:<br>At least with some carriers you give them a number which should be
<br>called if your mobile phone does not answer.<br>So we would give them the number of an Asterix box which answers the<br>call and save all relevant data(date/time, caller, voice...).<br><br>You said this would only be possible to use that when you are connected
<br>to an IP network.<br>But why couldn't the Asterix box behave just as the carriers voice mails<br>do? It would call you back or send you an sms when you have voicemails<br>and then offer you either to hear it the "normal" why like carriers do
<br>now or if you have an IP network connection to use a visual voicemail<br>system.<br><br>But I would like to go one step further: You could let the Asterix box<br>encode the data like caller and date in some "beeps" and then use the
<br>phone to decode it and display it on the screen. And as it isn't that<br>much data it could be done in an acceptable amount of time time.<br><br>So in my opinion it is quite realistic to have visual voicemail on your neo.
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