Wednesday, January 14, 2009

iPhone and GrandCentral

So I am planning on using Grand Central ( http://ww.grandcentral.com ) to front-end my various phones. One oversight I made, was to not check out how Mobile GrandCentral and the iPhone felt about each other. Big mistake. The mobile stylesheet which looks great on Windows Mobile is practically unreadable on the iPhone. Then there is the dealbreaker of (GrandCentral) visual voicemail requiring Flash which the iPhone doesn't have.


So I did some googling, coming across one iPhone app ( http://www.google.com/search?q=granddialer ), GrandDialer, which enables you to route calls through GrandCentral. While cool, this does not address my problem. I also came across a web app for working with voicemail - iVoicemail ( http://rectu.ms/iVoiceMail ).


I am hoping that I can make the combination of the horrible-looking GrandCentral mobile web page (for admin) and iVoicemail (for triaging messages) works for me until something better comes along. It gives me the heebie-jeebies handing my account info off to a website in the .ms TLD with no usage or privacy page, but they have some respect in the Apple community ( http://www.apple.com/webapps/utilities/ivoicemail.html , http://www.appsafari.com/phone/6646/ivoicemail ).

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