Cheers,

Trygve Inda, President, Xeric Design

The only con right now is that the sound quality on my phone and on my PB G4 is inferior. I hope they can improve on that. Otherwise, a great app for those who want a little iPhone in their lives right now.

thanks
joey

From your cell phone: Dial your cell phone number… no password needed (unless you block your caller ID). You may want to create a speed-dial entry on your cell phone to call your own number.

From any other phone: Dial your cell phone number… press “*” during the greeting, and enter your password.

Bob6stringer: if you’re still having problems, please contact us at care-v2w(at)callwave(dot)com. You can also click the Feedback button on the widget.

I’m sorry you’re having such difficulty with this software, and worse, that it came as the result of my review. I’ve tried CallWave multiple times with my phone, a Nokia 6270 and Cingular service, and was able to install and uninstall multiple times without issue.

As I wrote in the review, when you set it up on your phone, when dialing voicemail on your phone, it should take you to the CallWave service–at least it did on my phone. This means that not only do you receive the voicemails thru the widget on your Mac, but also thru the traditional method on your phone. Clearly, something’s not right on your phone.

Hopefully Bram, the CallWave manager who left a comment above will see this and will contact you. If you’d like to try to troubleshoot–let’s give it a shot (you can email me as well: macncell@gmail.com ).

I tried it and immediately set out trying to cancel it (reason below). The instructions for canceling did NOT work for my Verizon account.

Why I canceled? It’s of no use to me if I can ONLY listen to my voicemail on my my MacBook, which appears to be the case. It’s a total replacement for voicemail, as opposed to the record-keeping suplement I hoped for. Even if I opted for the complication of NO voice mail via phone, I’d have to be online for my MacBook to receive the messages, which isn’t practical.

Bottom line: A great idea that’s very inconvenient for me because I’m on the road all the time for work.

Maybe the for-pay premium features change this, I didn’t read that far. I’m too busy wasting time. Now that I’ve successfully deactivated the service (simple, via www site), I’m stuck with a Verizon cell phone that has NO voice mail… until I figure out how to get that back.

I think a lot of Mac users use Address Book and having another program integrated with it especially one like CallWave would be excellent!

I currently use Vonage and they have a similar voicemail program that captures the voicemail and leaves an audio file in your account on their website for you to listen to or to download and save on your harddrive. It’s great! They also send you a quick email letting you know that someone left a message and if the caller ID is available, they also include the phone number. I can either call my voicemail or just go online and listen to the message.

Thanks for your review and feedback.

We take your privacy and security very serious. CallWave is a publicly listed phone company, which holds us to the same high standards as Cingular, Verizon etc. Yet unlike the traditional phone companies, we want to communicate this in a clear and concise way. You have pointed out areas where we can do better.

We have looked at Mac Address Book integration. What percentage of Mac users actively use this?

I personally like the CallWave service, the features they offer are very interesting, such as the ability to monitor an incoming voicemail like you would an answering machine and pick up if you like what the person has to say. Having my voicemail emailed to me is nice, ’cause I don’t get the call volume to make checking the voicemail often worth my time. I am not personally concerned about the security flaws presented, but I am not dealing with sensitive information. My only complaint with the service is that if I get a text message sent to me (which oddly enough is not supported by the Gizmo side of things), it is converted to speech (which is cool in and of its self) and then the audio file is emailed to me, which is a bit silly. But, I guess that is merely a side effect of it being a phone based service that is being converted to play nice with computers.

“CallWave representatives will not view or listen to the contents of Member’s private communications as part of its routine procedure. However, in order to determine the cause of technical problems or to determine where a communications needs to be sent CallWave representatives may need to view or listen to said communications. The only other instance in which the content of Member’s communication would be seen or heard by CallWave is if CallWave is required to disclose the contents by applicable law, by order of a court (or other governmental body or arbitrator) of competent jurisdiction or to protect the safety of any person or the integrity of any property rights.

As a result, CallWave cannot guarantee that the content of Member’s transmissions will never be seen and that the content of Member’s voice messages will never be heard by CallWave personnel.“

Maybe I’m a little paranoid, but it just seems like another vector for spam–in the form of voicemail, unwanted text messages, and more e-mail. It’s not a stretch to imagine some company harvesting my calling records, habits, etc., for sale/rent to marketers.

If there were more information about “Call Wave” I might not be so skeptical (or paranoid).