SpinVox & Palm: A ‘Pre’ Announcement

Ding! Great win for you guys, and totally the best thing Sprint could have done. Would be even better if they go the road of making SpinVox the default “voicemail” for all of their mobiles. Then again, they would probably charge SV as an extra feature for all their other mobiles – which isn’t a bad thing for them, but kinda the way carriers are here.

Nice win.

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How does one acquire their SpinVox activation code? Would it come with the normal Sprint activation process?

[...] Back in February, at Mobile World Congress, yours truly was given a fantasically in-depth walk through (I took some nice photos), of the handset in question and, as I did back then, I can again – exclusively reveal that the Palm Pre will be *completely* SpinVox ready out of the box. You simply just have to enter in your usual SpinVox activation code and you’ll be away! Just like the Treo before it, the Palm Pre is going to be able to use the only voice to text service available in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and German – with the sophistication to deal with individual accents and regional variations such as US, Canadian, Australian and South African English. Read more about it here. [...]

ok this sounds really nice but how exactly do i get spinvox’s voicemail to text working? your site is the most confusing experience ever! it took me a while to figure out how to even sign up for an account, and then now i’m at a dead-end. there’s a link to sign up for the voicemail to text service but it leads to nowhere! this is beyond frustrating!! can you please provide some information??

@Daniel You can acquire your SpinVox Voicemail activation code after signing up for the service here:

http://icanhaz.com/GetSpinVoxUS

@loocas The SpinVox Voicemail service is normally offered through our carrier partners and signup through them. With Sprint however, you will need the link above

I hope that helps, I’ll be putting up a more in-depth explanation shortly.

Cheers.

[...] SpinVox & Palm: A ‘Pre’ Announcement [...]

I am in complete disappointment with palm pre. Fortunately I ahve 30 days to return it. So I will carry it for a month and return it. My previous phone is an instinct and it is not as stylized and elegant as the pre, but it has all the features and more.

I find visual voicemail super useful for a handheld phone and I am not paying another party for handling my personal info. Other features are better in the instinct still like the voice dialing, video recording and live search. I expected too much from the pre for all their TV propaganda.

There is no way I am leaving Sprint for AT&T, I only hope that someday Sprint can provide a phone platform that can be useful for business as the iPhone.