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Ribbit Mobile Wants to Be a Better Voicemail (and Better Google Voice) [Screenshot Tour]

Source: Lifehacker

Nov 05, 2009

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Ribbit Mobile is challenging Google Voice as the trusted receiver, organizer, and transcriber of your phone calls and voicemail. How does it stack up to Google's voicemail services? Aside from a few missing pieces, Ribbit looks like a serious rival.

At a glance, Ribbit Mobile, a currently in-beta, invitation-only VoIP and voicemail service recently bought by British Telecom, looks like a direct value-added challenge to Google's one-number-many-phones service. To a certain extent, it is a true direct competitor in the voicemail and phone-routing service, with a good list of unique features that we'll get to in just a bit.

Ribbit doesn't offer SMS services at the moment, however, and obviously doesn't offer the kind of integration with Google Contacts, Gmail, and a single Google account log-in that Google Voice does. It also lacks person-by-person message rules, allowing you to send certain callers to voicemail and hear a particular greeting,, while letting more important people through and giving them a different greeting. If none of that is particularly impor

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