Visual Voicemail

[Austin Taylor]

On 1/20/07, Wil Chung <iamwil at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Wilhelm
>

This sounds like a really good idea. You'd want to save a recording of
the message on the phone so that you can rewind and whatnot. How much
trouble is it to run your own Asterix box? Or do you envision this
being some kind of service?