Thursday, September 29, 2005
Voice SMSs will be a real Mobile Revolution in the Arab world
Voice SMSs are priced slightly more than a text message, but are priced at half the cost of a regular mobile-phone call and a fifth of the cost of so-called multimedia messaging services, which can incorporate photos, music and other content into messages. Unlike leaving a regular voice mail if a phone isn't answered, users of the "voice SMS" service aren't trying to talk directly to the people they call. Instead they just want to send a message in the form of voice instead of text. The recipient's phone doesn't even ring for a voice SMS; the recipient is alerted with a beep and can retrieve the voice message by pressing the star key. The technology was developed in Bangalore, India, by Sunil Coushik and his partner, who dubbed the new voice-text service "bubble talk."
# posted by Unknown : Thursday, September 29, 2005
