New service helps callers avoid awkward cell-phone moments

[The Zack]

New service helps callers avoid awkward cell-phone moments

 

Haddaa qof rabin inaa la hadasho but u still gotta call them..this is what to do:

 

NEW YORK (AP) -- The old song had it right: Breaking up is hard to do. But a free new phone service called Slydial might make it easier to get through that and other awkward moments -- without actually having to talk to anyone.

 

Slydial lets you connect directly with another person's cell phone voice mail, bypassing the traditional ringing process that often results, sometimes disastrously, with someone picking up on the other end.

 

Users call (267) SLY-DIAL from either a cell phone or a landline and are prompted to enter another person's cell phone number.

 

After playing a short advertisement -- unless users pay a subscription fee or 15 cents per call to skip ads -- Slydial puts callers directly into their target's voice mail.

 

Recipients should then get a voice mail notification, and sometimes they will see a caller's number show up as a missed call, too.

 

Gavin Macomber, co-founder of MobileSphere Ltd., the Boston-based communications company behind Slydial, thinks it can be useful not only in the dating scene but in the hectic business world.

 

"Everybody has gone through the scenario where they've called somebody and just hoped they got voice mail so they didn't have to have a conversation," he said.

 

Indeed, Nora Rubinoff, 45, who runs an administrative support company, At Your Service Cincinnati Ltd., has found Slydial helpful for both business and personal situations. She has left reminder messages for people one of her clients intends to interview.

 

And when her husband travels to a different time zone for work, she can leave him a Slydial message without disturbing him at an odd time of day, she said.

 

"It's been really handy," she said.

 

Macomber said the idea for Slydial came while MobileSphere developed the voice mail routing component of a service meant to lower the cost of international roaming on cell phones.

 

The company rolled out a private test phase of Slydial in March and has added about 5,000 users since then. The service opened to the general public in a "beta" testing phase Monday.

 

The ability to call straight into someone's voice mail is not new. Most major cell phone carriers offer subscribers the option of sending voice messages to other people, but usually only to customers of the same wireless company. What's different here is that Slydial makes it possible to do it with any major wireless carrier's customer.

 

There are constraints to this service. It can be used only in the U.S. right now, and generally won't work with prepaid cell phones. Also, sly dialers must have the caller ID feature activated on their phones, which Macomber said is meant in part to prevent people from using it to harass people undetected.

 

It's also not always super sly. Several test calls between cell phones made the recipient's phone emit an abbreviated ring before leading to voice mail. That might make people think the person on the other end really wanted to speak -- and could result in a quick call back. Horror of horrors: A real conversation might ensue after all.

[nuune]

This is for the desperados people I think, I doubt it means dat way, is all about makin money.

 

 

But that service is not new thing, here in our end, you can add extra digit to the person's number(differs from country to country though), and you go straight to their voicemail, simple, why subscription bal or through third-party company where you end up payin some money by trying to remove the ads(this is real bsiness for the company though ),

 

reer Ameerika waa danbeesaan runti

[The Zack]

^Generally its not new. What is new is that you can call intercarrier customers and leave them voicemail bypassing ringing process. Previously, it was available for people who are on the same carrier.

 

And yes, this is FREE. No hidden fees or any thing.

[Abdulladiif Al-Fiqih]

^Sxb miyaad ushaqaysaa?

[Abtigiis]

Cobole, salaan sare dear. Waan kula soo xidhiidhii.

[The Zack]

Mr Cobale looooooooooooooool maya ma u shaqeeyo sxb ee inaa ka faaideysataan baan rabaa. In badan baan damcay inaan waco qof oo aan fariin u reebo anigoon ayaga la hadlin lakin mar kasta wey iga qabtaan halow!

[Aaliyyah]

^ I fail to see why you want to leave a message for some1 yet you want to avoid them? why not talk to them and talk it out like whatever issues u both have....isn't that better, either way they will call u back.

 

Mr Cobale ma ila aragtay wuu u shaqeeya ayaan anba isidhi

[The Zack]

Aaliyah lol. I will give you an example when you want to do that. Let's say your ayeeyo calls you and leaves you a voicemail. You know if you call her back and talk to her it will take you atleast 30 minutes to get her off of the phone, so here is the deal, you call her back and leave her a voicemail without the hassle of talking to her for 30 min and not being "mean" by not returning your ayeeyo's calls. Thats why!

[Sophist]

Great idea for avoiding clients. I use this now for business. A client calls you numerous times, you dont really want to have a long conversation updating the state of play. What oftentimes do is call listen to the voicemail they have left for me and then click # and that connects directly to the voicemail.

[Aaliyyah]

Zack as sophist said I suppose it would be ideal in a business situation. So in that case perhaps I would be interested.

 

Don't ignore your granny's phone calls. Habaar ee kugu dhicine

 

 

wa salaam

[The Zack]

Sophist, Pressing # to call someone back will only work with people on the same carrier.

 

Aaliyah, Ayeeyo waa lagu cabbaaa lol. Grandpa's duco is going to clear granma's habaar out. He talks less.

[Abdulladiif Al-Fiqih]

^Your ayeeyo must be a hightech ayeeyo, leave a voicemail for my ayeeyo kulahaa

[The Zack]

^ Lol. What? Are you telling me your ayeeyo doesnt have a cellphone? Dude, get her one, pda will be perfect.

[Aaliyyah]

^^^perhaps his ayeeyo is much older than yours.....