It doesn’t seem to matter whether you’re a casual consumer, hardcore tech freak or even my personal God Maddox - everyone has an opinion on the iPhone. And after sorting through all 3,431 complaints/praises you’ll find that very few people have any beef with the Visual Voicemail feature. So it’s nice to know you can get the same damn thing using CallWave’s latest widget on your Mac. Sweet. Here’s a nice email that slipped through my spam filter earlier today:

We are the developers of the CallWave Text Messaging widget you use today. Now we’ve got another amazing widget we think you’ll want to try - the Visual Voicemail widget. We call it that because it lets you see and hear your mobile phone voicemail messages on your Mac - like the feature on the new iPhone. Best of all, it works with your existing mobile phone! And it’s free. No wonder we’re featured in the Top 50 on Apple’s Widget Gallery.

I own a Moto RAZR with Verizon and have already deliberately missed about three phone calls just to see how well this thing works. Once you get everything initially set it’s just a matter of punching in a string of confirmation numbers and then you’re all done. My only complaint so far is that CallWave changes your default voice greeting to some weird robotic crap, which prompted my second message to sound something like “What the hell is this? Call me back bye … freak.”

Download the widget here.

1. LT says:
   July 25th, 2007 at 7:32 am

   Adam K - If you’re into visual voicemail, you should also check out CallWave for it’s Vtxt service. It translates a voicemail on your phone into text. Pretty cool when you’re not at your computer to use the widget!

2. Maria says:
   August 1st, 2007 at 12:50 am

   Oh how funny, my best friend keeps going on and on about her iphone. Not necessary I told her, I can get visual voicemail for free through youmail and access it through any computer. Love to see other revelling in the same sense of “i dont need an iphone-ness”

3. pete says:
   August 1st, 2007 at 1:46 am

   i-hype is a sour apple. Sorry but i’m not sold on the hype. Can’t wait ’till all the noobs try to unlock their i-fones with gloves!
   Anyway, i digress.
   Yes there are other alternatives.
   YouMail is one of them and it is wildly cool–and FREE.
   GrandCentralGoogle is another (though you have to get a new number).
   Gotvoice–not so sure about them–ill pass.
   so even though i like GC the whole give out another number is way too much for me.