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Ribbit Mobile brings voicemail transcription to the iPhone

By | December 22, 2009, 9:38am PST

Summary: A new app called Ribbit Mobile brings voicemail transcription to the iPhone.

A new app called Ribbit Mobile (free, App Store) — not to be confused with iRibbit Plus, the eBay client — brings voicemail transcription to the iPhone.

Ribbit Mobile is a voicemail and call routing service and competitor to Google Voice. Its new iPhone app provides voicemail transcripts, embedded call-back and SMS links and to-call list generation.

Lifehacker notes that in addition to having better transcription accuracy than Google Voice, Ribbit Mobile was allowed into the App Store by not offering in-app calling, SMS, or address book features. Google Voice was rejected from the App Store for bypassing Apple’s Phone and Messages apps in favor of in-app communication — a no no.

On the other hand, Google Voice (for Android) allows you to hide your personal number and create a separate call-tracking list.

Tip: Stuart Pomerantz, via Lifehacker

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Jason O'Grady is a journalist and author specializing in mobile technology. He has published six books on Apple and mobile gadgets and his PowerPage blog has been publishing for over 15 years.

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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So it appears they are taking people's names and numbers and putting
them on a waiting list rather than actually letting them use the app? How
could the reviewers here miss that point? Too good an opportunity to
take a poke at Google? (Something that does have merit, but really.)

And most of the 5 star reviews sound like astroturfing rather than real
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I think I'll wait and see.
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Okay, sorry for the double post, but I just went to their website. This
"beta" period is in preparation for a $30 a month subscription in the
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