So you’ve heard all about the new Google Voice, and just received your long awaited invite, but what about the application already out there, YouMail??
Unlike Google Voice, YouMail turns missed calls & voicemails into emails with caller info & MP3 audio attachments. YouMail includes an MP3 in an email format. All you have to do is open the email, listen to the attachment, archive (or don’t), and your done! Google voice however, gives you a written transcript of the message which is often inaccurate so you have to listen to the audio of the voicemail anyways, but the quality of the audio message is like listening to a robot!
Some features to point out about each:
-It has a visual voicemail application for the Blackberry, a big plus!
-You can set different outgoing voicemails and personal greetings for different contacts
-You can listen to your voicemails from anywhere online in MP3 quality
-You can block any of those annoying unwanted callers
-You can share your voicemails with others.
Google Voice:
-You get written transcription of all messages (although not always accurate)
-You get to pick 1 centralized number for all of your phones
-You can listen in to voice mail as it’s being recorded
-When your busy, you can just set your calls to do-not-disturb mode
-It’s from Google!
So let’s see, with Google Voice you will have to: get a new phone number, read your voicemails via a transcript, and probably after all that listen to the original voicemail anyway to get the real gist of the message.
The bottom line here is, do you go with your first instinct and use YouMail, or give Google Voice a try?
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