Say NO to 20 cent charge by Sprint for call forwarding

Continuing from our success in the UK to have T-Mobile call forwarding premium charges droped for our users, we have launched a petition on behalf of our USA users on Sprint to do the same.

HulloMail and other 3rd party voicemail providers use conditional call forwarding to divert incoming messages away from the carrier's voice mail system. All major carriers AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile except for Sprint provide this feature for free and allow you to set it up yourself via your phone.

Sprint customers are required to call customer service to activate this type of forwarding, and then it costs you 20 cents per minute.

HulloMail strongly believes there should be an open market for 3rd party voicemail providers and we would like to champion this cause and welcome all industry players and consumers to join us .

Please sign our Petition.

Google Contacts for everyone and HulloMail web portal for US subscribers

Today sees the release of both Google Contacts integration for all HulloMail subscribers and the HulloMail web portal for US subscribers.

Google Contacts

Up until now only HulloMail users that had a GMail/GoogleMail account with 'HulloMail Sync' enabled were able to benefit from having contact information from Google Contacts associated with their HulloMail messages.

Now we have added further integration with Google that allows any HulloMail user, no matter what type of email account they have configured to store their HulloMail messages in, to enable Google Contacts support and enjoy the same experience.

This feature is simply enabled through the 'Contacts' settings screen in the Android mobile app. There the user is redirected to Google for authentication and then authorisation of HulloMail to access their contacts. Enabling this feature will soon also be possible through the HulloMail web portal.

HulloMail web portal

Like their UK counterparts, existing US subscribers can now access and manage both their HulloMail messages and account settings through the HulloMail user web portal while away from their phone.


The HulloMail team.

"Green me up, Scotty"

Voicemail isn't just good for shaming freaky guys. Voicemail can save the planet too.

The original Captain Kirk, William Shatner, is helping Greenpeace with their campaign to stop Hewlett-Packard using toxic chemicals in their computer products.

Hear his voicemail to HP below or read more about his campaign on The Guardian site.

The greatest voicemail ever?

I heard about this meme years ago but never got round to experiencing its full horror until yesterday. Don't spare a thought for Dimitri "The Stud".

Saving voicemail's a great way of shaming the scary people out there. I don't know whether to laugh or cry, but I'm definitely cringing.



Visit http://dimitrithestud.com/ for more on the man.

Avoid roaming charges

Hear your voicemails for free when you're overseas. HulloMail user, Jon Bradford, tells you how.

T-Mobile support visual voicemail

T-Mobile USA are launching their own visual voicemail service to coincide with the arrival of the MyTouch3G handset. Their app allows users to listen to messages in any order and save them to the handset. It will be available by the end of the month.

Like us, the operator believes that visual voicemail is a reason to buy an Android handset. However, the T-Mobile app fails to embrace all the technological possibilities. Unlike the our app, there’s no contact sync and no email functionality. The T-Mobile app's just a small step in revolutionising voicemail in contrast to HulloMail's great leap.

The operator joins tech giants like Apple and Google in developing visual voicemail systems. Voice-prompt systems are gradually becoming a thing of the past and we believe HulloMail's the best solution for the new telecommunications landscape.Today, people expect voicemail to be as flexible as any other form of digital communication and that is precisely the experience that our Android app's delivering. Go to market, search for HulloMail and download.

"My voicemail's mine to keep!"

Meet Travis, from Cincinnati, OH - our first US subscriber. We asked him a few questions about Android and HulloMail.

Why are you an Android user?
I love that it’s an open source project. It attracts a giving community.

Android's powered by Google. Most of my apps are neatly integrated and safely backed up by them.

What are the best apps?
Locale, Shazam, TuneWiki, Twidroid and, of course, HulloMail.

Why did you switch to HulloMail?
My previous voicemail solution, PhoneFusion, relied on SMS for voicemail alerts. I have a limited SMS plan. It sucked that I had to waste a SMS every time I got a voicemail. I am glad to see there are lots of other advantages to HulloMail too.

What are your favourite?
Voicemail goes immediately to my email inbox - it's awesome! With my previous solution, there was like a 50mb limit and the messages lived on their server. With HulloMail my voicemail's mine to keep!

I also like the flexibility of HulloMail. I don't have to use the app to access my messages because I can check my email for them.