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March 12, 2010

T-Mobile starts Voice Plus Beta

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Written by: Jolie Gendel
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This affects G1 owners only; emails are being sent out to those of you who signed up to participate in the new service to manage calls and voicemail on your Android phone. Here’s what to expect:

Features of Voice Plus Beta:

  • Call Divert: Carve out a little peace and quiet by sending selected numbers straight to voicemail without ringing your phone.
  • Call Defer: Let callers know you’re busy and schedule a convenient time for you to call them back.  Send them a text message that acknowledges their call and that you will respond at a later time.
  • Visual Voicemail: Easily manage your voicemail! View a list of who left a voicemail, with the time of the message and its length.  Choose which to listen to now and which to review later.
  • City ID: Get more information about the calls you receive.  The city and state information of incoming calls is displayed.

Between Google Voice and standard settings, this doesn’t offer anything I would be willing to wipe my phone for. Oh yes, if you want to get the Beta, you will need to update the G1’s software, wiping your phone in the process.  T-Mobile does provide a few steps to walk you through the process so you can backup your data.  If you run into any snags, you’re advised to not call Customer Care. Instead take your problems to the Voice Plus Beta forums.

[Source, AndroidGuys, T-Mobile]







About the Author

Jolie Gendel
Though my day job takes me away from the tech world, much of my free time is spend being a gadget geek. I’m an Android Fan girl, and I’ve made it my goal to convert as many as possible to the green guy. Yeah, you can say I’m Android obsessed. I’m the proud owner of a Nexus One, and I’m excited to see where the future of Android goes. In the meantime, you’ll find me here writing about Android and enjoying my view of the great white north.





 
 

 
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8 Comments


  1. Chris

    How do we do this if we are rooted?


  2. Chris

    How do we do this if we are rooted?


  3. Tehninjo0

    Soo… it’s kind of like Google Voice except you still have to pay for your text messages, yeah?


  4. Tehninjo0

    Soo… it’s kind of like Google Voice except you still have to pay for your text messages, yeah?


  5. Juan

    I got an email from TMOBILE with instructions on how to flash the new ROM with the Voice Plus Beta. The process was easy, but now Google Maps and other Apps are not working properly. At TMOBILE Forum they say maybe they are going to make a new ROM with Voice Plus Beta and a ROM just in case you want to go back to the original ROM.


  6. Juan

    I got an email from TMOBILE with instructions on how to flash the new ROM with the Voice Plus Beta. The process was easy, but now Google Maps and other Apps are not working properly. At TMOBILE Forum they say maybe they are going to make a new ROM with Voice Plus Beta and a ROM just in case you want to go back to the original ROM.



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