MIR Show – Week 44 – HulloMail, voicemail that’s yours to keep

By on November 10, 2008 in News

Andy Munarriz, top chap at HulloMail, dropped in the other week to say hi and tell us about their rather nifty and revolutionary voicemail system. Andy’s rather passionate about voicemail — and whilst HulloMail offers you the standard voicemail-by-phone features, it’s got one huge, huge difference. You now own your voicemail. Instead of messages residing on some server in the middle of nowhere, they’re actually sent directly to your email for you to listen to.

And if you’re a Gmail user (for example), the power and potential of HulloMail really begins to shine through. You can keep every voicemail yourself. You don’t need to worry about constantly dialing up to retrieve messages. If you’re an iPhone user or, better, a G1 user, it’s gorgeous — because you simply click on the attachment and it plays on your handset.

Get a free account at HulloMail now and check it out (it’s free for the time being and they’re aiming to offer premium services and fund the free service with advertising).

You can see it working in the video below…


MIR Show – Week 44 – Andy from HulloMail from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo.

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  • barneyc

    An interesting and disruptive play on voicemail – enjoyed it. Subtly different to Spinvox in making the VM actually your content to do with as you please. Transcription would be nice.

    Great to now see two VM alternatives in the marketplace moving the value out from the operators.

  • http://www.hullomail.com andy munarriz

    we are planning on offering transcription as an option with a 3rd party very shortly… andy @ hullomail

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  • http://www.carsonified.com Dominic

    Signed up this morning.
    All seems to be working fine with a pop gmail account too.
    Good stuff.

  • barneyc

    tried signing up but failed on creating association with Google Apps domain email. Suggestions before I retry?

  • barneyc

    Scrap that. Hadn't seen the email from Chris Beauchamp (Ops Mngr) 3 minutes prior detailing that I had obviously had a problem signing up, what the problems was and suggesting a solution. Farking outstanding proactive customer / potential customer care.

    Well done HulloMail.

    Right now you will get another 15 minutes of attention.

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Ewan @ MIR

    That's rather impressive!

  • barneyc

    So far so good on the communication although the registration process has failed me thus far. Will update.

  • http://www.labjuice.com Peter Santiago

    Does it work in the US?

  • http://www.golivesms.com Michael

    Can’t wait until you bring this to the States. Product and website look good

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Ewan @ MIR

    Peter I understand it's UK only for the time being

  • http://www.labjuice.com Peter Santiago

    Awe shucks….

    Any idea when we'll be live in the US?

  • http://www.labjuice.com Peter

    Does this service work for US clients?

  • http://www.hullomail.com andy munarriz

    definately part of the plan and I hope sooner rather than later. will keep you posted

  • http://www.rickyc.co.uk Ricky Chotai

    you got to love tmobile for their divert charge that does not come out of allowance. I will give Hullomail ago when i switch operator.

  • http://www.joshuapr.com PatrickatJPR

    Very interesting to see Spinvox interview HulloMail!

  • http://www.kcjhdesign.co.uk Kip Hakes

    Wondering if Chris Webb wants his numbers and stuff shown? ;)

  • barneyc

    Quick update. After a little but very useful conversations with HulloMail all up and running just fine. Chat with Andy last night after MoMo informative and these guys will hopefully provide Spinvox with some much needed competition.

  • http://www.hullomail.com Chris Webb

    I will be commencing legal action very shortly

  • http://whatleydude.vox.com James Whatley

    You didn't see SpinVox interview HulloMail.
    You saw James Whatley of MIR interview HulloMail.

    I thought that would've been clear by the 'MIR interviews Andy from Hullomail' billing we gave it.

  • http://www.joshuapr.com PatrickatJPR

    James, I thought you might say that and to be fair that's what it looked
    like.

    Still interesting though …

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  • http://www.smstextnews.com/author/Ben.Smith Ben Smith

    James Whatley != SpinVox shocker – full news at 10.

  • http://www.joshuapr.com PatrickatJPR

    Ben, I thought as far as the social media world was concerned that was the plan.

  • http://invalid.name DanLane

    *sigh* I'll grease up the MIR lawyers :(

  • Mike42

    Never grease a lawyer – you both end up covered in grease, and the lawyer enjoys it.

  • http://invalid.name DanLane

    Not only that, but he'll bill you for it too!

  • http://www.smstextnews.com/author/Ben.Smith Ben Smith

    The first rule of lawyer greasing is “don't talk about lawyer greasing”.

  • http://www.rossderrick.com Ross Derrick

    spinvox + hullomail would = ultimate in voicemail access & managment.

    I use spinvox and love it. It saves me so much time. But having voicemail as an email would be great too. Although, for me, transcription is more important atm. I would really love a merge of these two systems.

  • Mary

    I am really sorry, but I don't see the business case here. Why do users need that? It is way simpler to press 1 (or whatever) to connect to your voicemail. When will you ever have a computer handy when you are not at home or at work or you don't own an iPhone etc? I don't think that this is a winning product… sorry.

  • Mary

    I am really sorry, but I don't see the business case here. Why do users need that? It is way simpler to press 1 (or whatever) to connect to your voicemail. When will you ever have a computer handy when you are not at home or at work or you don't own an iPhone etc? I don't think that this is a winning product… sorry.

  • Mary

    I am really sorry, but I don't see the business case here. Why do users need that? It is way simpler to press 1 (or whatever) to connect to your voicemail. When will you ever have a computer handy when you are not at home or at work or you don't own an iPhone etc? I don't think that this is a winning product… sorry.

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