What
new features are you guys working on?
A lot. You can use it to:
· Create
& send quick voice notes to people
· Send
contacts from your address book to others
· Attach
a voice note to a contact, like “This is
the guy I met at the club in Cancun at spring break’09”
· Send
a contact with one or more voice notes attached to it, like “Jake, this is the CPA dude that I was
telling you about. He did a great job on my taxes last year. Here’s his
contact. Give him a call or email him about that tax issue you were asking me
about.”
· Just
record and keep “notes to self” voice memos
· Record
conversations, meetings, party sounds, live events; things you don’t want to
forget, or want to capture & send to someone
· Attach
voice memos you previously created, to contacts
· …..…and
more stuff like that
Most
of all, it is a fast, easy way to send someone a voice message, a contact or
both. Think of it like instant messaging or texting for Voice and Contacts. Why
use cell minutes, why waste time listening to the phone ringing at the other
end, or listening to a voicemail greeting, when you can just “push to talk” and
“fire & forget”.
With
VoxNotes, you can go:
· What
are you doing this evening?
· Honey,
can you get a can of milk on the way home?
· What’s
up dude? Call me
· We
need to talk
· Hey,
just a reminder, don’t miss that show I told you about on TV tonight
· Tracy,
here’s the contact of the plastic surgeon that did my nose job.
· and
other equally important communiqués
Sound
familiar? There are a hundred times a week that you need to text or call
someone you know and give them a short message. Well, now you can VoxNote them.
Some
new features we’re working on include:
· Reply
to Voxnotes, with another VoxNote
or by email
· Receive
VoxNotes directly, without email. So if both parties
have VoxNotes they can conduct a two-way push to talk
conversation
· GeoVoxNotate a location: Create a voice memo and
attach to a location. Decide whether others should be able to hear it when they
pass through that location.
· VoxNotate an app: record your comments about an app in
your voice
· Send
your comments on an app or a place to others
· Set
up voice reminders/alarms
It’s
simple, and it’s flexible.
You
can record a voice note and just save it. Or you can send it to someone in your
contacts. Or you can save it, and then later select it from a list, and send
it. You can delete a VoxNote, attach it to a contact
or detach it from a contact.
Or
you can start with a contact and send it to someone else. If the contact has
one or more VoxNote(s) already attached to it, you
can send them all together, or just the contact. You can listen to the VoxNotes attached to a contact directly from within your
main Contact list in the iPhone phone app as well.
QuickVox is just our name for a fast and easy way to
record and send voice messages to people, with the fewest clicks. To use QuickVox, you simply:
- Touch
the QuickVox button on the Home page
- This
will bring you to the Recorder
- Immediately
start speaking your message
- When
done speaking, press Stop on the Recorder
- This
will bring you to the contact list
- Choose
the contact you want to send the message to
- That’s
it. You’re done.
- The
message will arrive in their inbox as an email with an mp3 attachment that
contains your voice message
When
you choose to press Create on the Home page, you get an option to “VoxNotate a Contact”. This lets you select a contact, and
then record a voice note (VoxNote) and attach it to
the contact. You can use this when you want to store some information about the
contact or a reminder about that person, like “This is the guy who I met on the
train from London to Paris”, or “ This is Rosie’s
nephew”, or whatever.
When
you send a VoxNote, it is sent over the internet to
our servers which send it over as an email with an mp3 attachment to the email
address of your contact. If the contact you are sending the VoxNote
to does not have an email address in your address book, you can type in an
email address on the fly.
Tip:
You can even send a VoxNote to someone that’s not in
your address book, by selecting a contact that has no email address, and keying
in the recipient’s email address when prompted.
When
you send a contact, it comes over as a “vcf” card
attachment. The recipient can simply drag and drop it in to their address book,
if they are using one of the popular desktop mail clients, like Microsoft
Outlook® or Lotus Notes®.
When
you send a contact that has VoxNotes already attached
to it, you get to choose whether to include the VoxNotes
in the message or not.
You
can send a contact from your address book to any email address. To send a
contact:
- Touch
the Send button on the Home page
- Choose
“Send a Contact” on the slideout menu
- This
will bring you to the Contact List
- Select
the contact that you want to send. Note this is the CONTACT THAT YOU’RE
SENDING, not whom you are sending it to (that comes later)
- You
will see the Selected Contact. If the contact you chose to send has any VoxNotes attached to it, they will be shown at the bottom
of the page with an On/Off button next to each
- If
you wish to include these VoxNotes in your message
along with the contact, then press the On button, else leave it Off
- Press
Send
- This
brings you to the Contact List again! Yes this could be confusing, but this
time you are selecting WHOM TO SEND THE SELECTED CONTACT TO. Choose the
recipient.
- If
the recipient has no email address in your address book, the app will ask you
for one.
Tip:
You can even send a VoxNote to someone that’s not in
your address book, by selecting a contact that has no email address, and keying
in the recipient’s email address when prompted.
The
most important thing to know about the Recorder is that for best results you
should hold the phone close to your
mouth.
SAVE: You can not only record and send a VoxNote but you can also save it for later use. When you
save a VoxNote, you will be asked to give it a name,
BUT THIS IS OPTIONAL. You can just hit Save without entering a name, and the
app will use the current time as the name.
SEND: When you press Send, you will be
taken to a contact list. There you must choose who are sending the VoxNote to.
ATTACH: You can attach
a VoxNote to a Contact. This lets you record audio
information about the contact like “This is the guy I
met on the train to Paris”, etc
DETACH: You can detach
a VoxNote from a contact. This makes a Standalone VoxNote.
You
can come to this screen in two situations:
1.Create
>> VoxNotate a Contact
2.Send
>> Send a Contact
In
both cases, you can click on any phone number to call it. You can click on any
email address to send it an email.
VoxNotate a Contact
In this mode, click on the Plus sign to add a VoxNote
to this contact. Note that you can add up to VoxNotes to one contact
Send a Contact
- In
this mode, if the contact you chose to send has any VoxNotes
attached to it, they will be shown at the bottom of the page with an On/Off
button next to each
- If
you wish to include these VoxNotes in your message
along with the contact, then press the On button, else leave it Off
- Press
Send
- On
the next page you can select whom to send the contact to
When
you send a VoxNote or contact, the name that you
enter on this screen will be used to let the recipient know that the message is
from you.
The
Email address you enter here will be included in the message sent to the
recipient of your VoxNote or contact, so they can
reply to you at this email address. If you don’t fill these fields, messages
coming from you could be confusing because they won’t have any sender
information.
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