Features
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License:
Free to try; $3.95 to buy
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Editor's Rating:
Not rated
- Average User Rating:
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Downloads:
218,032
- Requirements:
Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
- Limitations:
30-day trial
- Date Added:
December 13, 2002
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Publisher's description of Internet Answering Machine
From CallWave:The CallWave Internet Answering Machine allows you to receive, listen, and even answer incoming phone calls while you're online. The software uses the call-forwarding feature on your phone line to answer calls while you are connected to the Internet. When someone calls you, they will be redirected to the Internet Answering Machine message service. After hearing a brief greeting that you can personalize, the caller is able to leave you a message. Messages are sent directly to your computer and played over your PC speakers or headphones. You can even answer the call at anytime, or let CallWave continue to take the message for you.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.7 stars out of 109 votes
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Internet Answering Machine 3.07.6
"Dial-up user? Get this or pay for a 2nd phone line"
Pros: Receive calls while being online, play them back again and again if you want to.
Cons: New features, one time I chose to try a trial feature which said after it expired it would go away and I wouldn't be billed for it unless I paid. Well, I didn't pay and wanted the original service level, I had to contact them specially and had it sorted out. Also, at least with the service level I have used, when a call comes in and when you launch your dial-up connection, the callwave internet answering machine takes up space on the screen and can get in the way. I have to minimize it everytime. They need to come out with one that is automatically minimized, if anything, until you get your first call, then pop it up.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Internet Answering Machine 3.07.6
Cons: Everything! The worst product in the world! Do not get it! a waste of 1 MB!!
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Version: Internet Answering Machine 3.07.6
Cons: Stay away from Callwave. I became a victim of their bait and switch tactic.
Don't get used to their free services because they eventually becomes a premium service and they will only give you very short notice.
Luckily, I was able to port my fax numbers from them when they start charging me $8/month. It was very difficult to cancel my account with them and they continuously charged my credit card after cancellation. They don't have a published tech support phone number on their website, so that really tells you something. If you are currently a Callwave subscriber, yes you can port your phone number to another provider.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Internet Answering Machine 3.07.6
"definite NO - credit card for FREE to try software?"
Pros: NONE unless you have too much $$$
Cons: smells like scam - they ask for a credit card advertising FREE to try....
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Internet Answering Machine 3.07.6
Cons: That I needed to submit a credit card number for one month's free trial just about ended my interest right then and there. Then there were the daily email reminders from the company that I needed to activate the trial for my CallWave. I use excellent anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-pop-up packages and haven't had any problems for months, however, right after I opened each of their emails, pop-ups appeared on my screen reminding me that I needed to activate my trial version. Then I touched base with an acquaintance who told me they tried CallWave and although they informed the company that their service doesn?t work in our country, their credit card continues to be charged each month, with one month showing two CallWave charges. Written requests to stop charging their card are seemingly ignored, and there?s little point telephoning them because no one there speaks English clearly, [I?m told the profuse apologies in broken English got tired fast].
Believing I had heard enough I decided to uninstall this program. CallWave requests an internet connection before it will proceed with an uninstall. After gently removing the telephone wires from my surge protector (my internet connection suddenly refused to disconnect), I removed all CallWave related entries from my registry, individually dragged the contents of the CallWave program folder to the Incinerator (some wouldn?t go), restarted my computer, incinerated the remainder of the CallWave folder, double checked my registry, and placed CallWave?s email address on my blocked list.
I've entered CallWave in my ?Do Not Use Under Any Circumstances? list.
I consider myself to have gotten off very lightly.
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