Tired of your usual, ordinary, hard-to-manage, and boring voicemail? Pinger introduces its customizable service which makes it easy to handle voicemails.
“Voicemail is something everyone tolerates but no one loves,” said Greg Woock, Pinger CEO. “One of the big frustrations with traditional voicemail is users’ inability to immediately respond to messages without hanging up and having to make a call. Pinger solves this problem while also bringing personalization, simplicity and a great web interface to mobile phone voicemail.”
With Pinger voicemail service, you have the option to record personalized greetings to each and every one of your family and friends, receive a visual representation of your voice mail as an envelope showing the caller’s identity, manage your account and reply to the voicemail from the internet, reply and forward voice mails directly from the voicemail itself, and you can store these voicemails for good.
Pinger voicemail service is available in the US for Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T subscribers. It’s free, although your carriers might charge for forwarding and answering voicemails. For more info, visit the Pinger web site, or sign-up by calling 408-916-5008.
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This question for Tim Gideon, lead audio analyst, comes from reader, Randy:
I was ready to buy a Sandisk Sansa View until I read other Sansa reviews of the e200 model on Amazon. There were many bad to Nasty reviews complaining of short life due to hardware and software problems. Apparently they liked it when they first got it but then things went south quickly. Yet in a recent PC Mag article on MP3 players showed no hint of Sansa quality issues.
What’s your take on the quality issue? How can a consumer find out what the real repair rate might be for Sansa players?
Tim’s answer, after the jump.
The ugly truth about virtually all portable media players is that they are designed to have relatively short lives. Three years the cap for most devices before they start bugging out, but it often starts sooner. This is because the companies want you to go out and buy a new one every three years, naturally. Even if a player did last a long time, it would most likely eventually be made obsolete because of updates to supporting software.
There is no real way for me to test exactly how long a player will last, since that would involve using the player–everyday–for a year or so. And since I review almost every player on the market, and because companies only lend us the device (they don’t give it to us), you begin to see the problem. I would take the comments on Amazon with a grain of salt. Unfortunately, it’s easy to anonymously trash a competitor in those comments section, or at least rag on a company you don’t like. And we know nothing of how these folks treated their supposedly destroyed players.
I can’t say that I particularly think of the Sansa line of players as “sturdy”–but that doesn’t mean they are junk. They certainly have decent firmware. Archos players are sturdy. iPods, if treated well, are also sturdy. But probably most of the issues people will have with players as they age are internal, firmware-related. As long as you treat the View well, I can’t imagine that it will just die on you before a year is up. But if it does, that’s what warranties are for…
Written by Brian Heater on December 12th, 2007 with no comments.
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In a world of dis-
posable technology…
why spend lots of dough?
–Tim Gideon
For the full-length, free-verse SanDisk Sansa View review check out PCMag.com.
Written by Blogging Molly on November 23rd, 2007 with 1 comment.
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Just a quick note to all Sansa Connect owners who have not updated their firmware in a while: Your player does more than it used to. You now have video playback! Also, you can now do an artist search in the Get New Music tab when perusing Yahoo! Music selections (the initial exclusion of this feature was something I may have whined about a few months back).
The video specs look like this: 320 by 240 resolution at 30 fps, and it plays only MPEG-4. Since we no longer have our Sansa Connect inhouse (yes, even analysts have to return the toys when they’re finished), we’ll have to rely on you, intrepid Connect owners, to tell us whether these features work well and increase the value of the device. Apparently, simply connecting to the Internet gives the player its upgrade automatically, so you may already have the firmware and not realize it–though it’s hard to miss: Your “Photo” section is now called “Photo and Video.” Let us know how it works!
Written by Gearlog on November 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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Yes! Finally a little of 50 Cent/Kayne action in the world of gadget technology. No surprise here, the throwdown is coming directly from the tech world’s resident gangsta rappers, the PR spokespeople.
Microsoft has been talking a big game in light of their recent Zune 2 announcement, suggesting that the new line of players might secure them the second spot in the world of DAPs (not number one? Come on guys, you call that braggadocio?), after the coming holiday season.
SanDisk spokesperson, Carmella Lyman, has just throwndown, hair-first, promising to shave her head, should the Zune bump up to number two after Xmas. Of course, it’s not much of a bet if it’s not a two-way street. MS’s entertainment and devices president, Robbie Bach, who supposedly made the initial declaration, will have to agree by Halloween that he will shave his own head, should the devices’ less-crippled wi-fi put them over the top.
We, for one, welcome the move from empty bragging to ill-advised wagers.
More Zune tats, anyone?
Written by Brian Heater on October 10th, 2007 with no comments.
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At 7 A.M., Sandisk announced the Sansa View video and MP3 player. This svelte little number will have numerous tricks up its sleeve (no ship date announced yet): In addition to holding and playing your MP3, protected and unprotected WMA, and WAV audio files, it’ll support MPEG4, WMV, and H.264 video, and play them at 30 fps.
But wait, there’s more: You can also view JPG photos; it’s Audible-compatible, for audiobook listeners; and it plays digital FM radio, with 20 presets. The color screen is a 2.4-inch TFT with 320-by-240 resolution. It’ll have a voice recorder and a MicroSD/SDHC slot. Take that, video nano!
The dimensions of the new Sansa View will be a petite 4.29 x 1.95 x 0.35 inches, and it’ll weigh 2.9 ounces. Right now Sandisk is planning on 2 storage capacities: 8GB for $149.99 and 16GB for $199.99. Tim Gideon will post a review on PCMag.com just as soon as he can get his hands on one; we’ll keep you posted.
More pictures after the jump.
Written by Carol Mangis on September 10th, 2007 with no comments.
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SanDisk unveiled the Sansa Clip today, a pint-sized new MP3 player. The company’s latest Shuffle-killer (come on, like we were the only ones thinking it) offers 1 and 2GB capacities, and boasts an OLED screen that makes it possible to sort songs by title, artist, album, or genre–unlike some of the other players of its size.
The Clip also offers an FM recorder and tuner featuring 40 station presets, a built-in microphone, and up to 15 hours of battery life. The 1GB model is only available in black, while the 2GB comes black, blue, red, and pink.
Perhaps most appealing to those searching for a low capacity MP3 player is the Sansa Clip’s price point, coming in at $39.99 and $59.99, respectively.
Written by Brian Heater on August 27th, 2007 with no comments.
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