Looks they have assembled a list of all vmail numbers.

There is no technology for SlyDial. They are making two concurrent calls on your behalf with a .5 sec gap in between. Call #1 dials – hangup in .5 sec and then Call #2 goes to the mobile VM. How do you do that on a landline connected to an answering machine unless they are on a corporate VM or Carrier’s VM?

Stop the dumb @ss question.

“you can simply launch the application and select a contact from your address book. From there you’ll be….”

I have tried to tell Jajah reps for years this is they should initiate calling. Simply launch Jajah app, choose contact, and wait for an incoming call.

Who wouldn’t do this to save big money on overseas calling?

If anyone knows how slydial can do this please let me know.

Yeah, I could send him a text message, but I don’t know if he’s hip to SMS… but everyone seems to understand voicemail. So there’s your use case.

It’s a nifty app that will come in handy for us all on occasion, but let’s look at the economics:

They need to terminate a call, and then either dial out via VOIP (presumably) or pehaps somehow avoid telco outbound entirely and use bandwidth to “send” voice mail to cooperating systems. I doubt it’s the latter as calls show-up as missed calls. But it’s unavoidable that there are marginal costs for inbound and outbound.

Rev model? Audio advertising in the call could work well, and is probably the only option as the number of folks willing to pay for this service is likely small. Or, most likely, this is a proof of concept and they want to show people will use it, and then sell tech to carriers who will bill on usage as they do SMS. Idea being if people will pay for asynchronous text communications they would presumably pay for a similar voice based service?

That’s a service I’d actually use.