GotVoice Evaluation

I have been using GotVoice for awhile now. It works by polling your voicemail through the phone companies voicemail access numbers and then transcribes the voice mail to a text message and email message.

Pros:

Support for up to 3 different phone numbers.
No additional charges from Sprint since it doesn’t use the call forwarding that the other services require.
Transcribes voicemail and sends them as text messages.
Has “Visual Voicemail” a mobile web applicaiton for viewing and listening to messages.
Has a podcast / rss feed for listening to voice mail messages.
Has a windows application called the GotVoice Message Center that lets you play your voicemail on your PC from the desktop.

Cons:

Notifications can be delayed by about an hour depending on the polling frequency that you have configured and I believe they don’t allow checking more frequently.
Occasional login problems. I haven’t been able to quantify this problem, but when I’ve tried accessing it from my phone and the web browser, I can have problems logging in at times.

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By Brian – February 10, 2009

Voicemail on multiple smartphones

Because I’m always developing or testing with various smartphones I maintain three different phone lines in order to have several of them working at once. My current lineup includes the following phones:

HTC Touch Pro

Sprint Touch

Sprint Instinct

I also have VOIP phone numbers with

As a result, I’m always looking for products and services that help me manage them. I’m currently evaluating a number of services that will help me to manage my voicemail. The Sprint Instinct requires a service plan that has specialized voicemail so I probably won’t mess with that one right now. The other two phones are on a shared plan but have seperate voicemail inboxes.

The services that I”ll be evaluating are:

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By Brian – February 7, 2009

Played in the Dead Money Open Yesterday

I went down to Fargo to play in the Dead Money Open yesterday. It was a $150 buy in and you got a $10 bounty for everyone you knocked out of the tournament.

They had a pretty large turnout, approximately 175 people ponied up the money. There were 10,000 in starting stacks and half hour blinds. But since they only started at 1:00 and had to be done by 2:00 AM they started at 100 blinds and although, early on the blind structure was pretty friendly, when we got down to two tables and near the button, it became an all-in fest.

I ended up making the final table and my calling a KJo all-in with AQo saw two jacks hit the board and I was gone. A few hands later and two people went out on the same hand and the remaining 6 chopped the remaining prize money.

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