Archive for December, 2008
PhoneFusion Visual Voicemail: Thumbs Down
It’s a rarity that you’ll see me bashing an application on this site. But this G1 App was absolutely sub-par for me. I was excited to see that the G1 got a visual voicemail application and was hoping it could compete with the iPhone. Yes, it might be in its beta stage but that’s still not an excuse for extreme mediocrity.
Everything was all fine and dandy. I was in school and one of my good friends showed me the G1 Application, and I wanted it so I decided to download it on the spot. Went to their website registered my account and all that stuff. I got the test voicemail pressed the notification on my screen, cool, the voicemail played over speaker phone and I could see who it was from.
When I began missing phonecalls, I would always get a voicemail and never be able to hear it. The application force closed multiple times, and sent me dozens of texts with a garbled message (they say its Google’s fault. So what?) Anyways, once I got fed up I deleted the application. Thought I was done with it. WRONG! It had completely messed up my voicemail system. Everyone who called me though my phone was disconnected. Ridiculous.
I ended up having to call T-Mobile and they instructed me to dial ##004# which does a complete reset on your voicemail. Until this app gets out of beta and they work all the kinks out. I wouldn’t waste my time downloading it.