Building Bridges: Voice, Web And Text
There are a lot of new voice services around these days. Some promise international calls with no extra charge than using your mobile minutes, others take your voice calls and convert them to text. Financial Times recently did a good review of the various services to bridge the gap between voice communications, text messaging and mobile web. In Pakistan we have a few similar services such as voice 2 text. Some (edited) excerpts from the FT article are presented below:
JAXTR
Jaxtr, which is free, is designed to link your fixed or mobile phone to the web, so you can hear from callers worldwide while keeping your number private. You need to sign up for a free Jaxtr account.
To call your friends with Jaxtr, you click on their Jaxtr link using a PC and enter your phone number. Jaxtr connects the call by dialling their number and calling you back on the number you entered. If they do not have an account, you can invite them to sign up.
Calling Jaxtr numbers is free from any long distance or international toll charges if Jaxtr supports local numbers in your area - currently it has numbers in the major metropolitan areas of 51 countries (including Pakistan). Each account comes with unlimited voice and text messages, and the service allows you to forward up to 100 minutes of incoming calls to your phone a month, depending on your country and the kind of phone.
GRANDCENTRAL
Although its application is not limited to mobile phones, GrandCentral, a start-up recently acquired by Google, is worth taking a look at though the service is currently only available as a beta or trial service by invitation.
GrandCentral lets users consolidate all their phone numbers, including home, office and mobile numbers, into one new number provided by the service. New voicemail messages on any of the old lines are forwarded to your GrandCentral number and kept as audio files and consolidated into a single online mailbox.
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