February 16, 2007 at 12:25 pm · Authored by Ewan · Filed under Mobile

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This rocks.

Bubble Motion (www.bubblemotion.com) the world’s first voice short messaging service (voice SMS) provider, today announced an agreement with Vodafone Egypt (www.Vodafone.com.eg) to launch its Mini Call BubbleTALK voice SMS to the operator’s subscribers. Voice SMS usage has been a recent messaging success story in the Asia-Pacific region with eight mobile operators offering the service to more than 100 million users to date.

This deal with Vodafone Egypt means that the operator’s subscribers will be able to record and send short voice messages to their friends, families or business contacts, in a very similar manner to sending text messages. Voice SMS fills a mobile communications gap by offering a more instantaneous, personal and language-agnostic alternative to text messaging, mobile email and traditional mobile voice calling.

I would love to try this out. I reckon it would be wickedly cool.

I’ve kind-of-tried-it by using Agile Messenger’s push-to-talk function. You push, record a quick message and it sends the audio through to the person you’re speaking to on IM — it actually sends a link that they click to then listen to the message.

I reckon if you put BubbleTalk in my hand, I’d be using it all day. Far quicker to knock off a quick voice note to someone than tap-tap-tap.

Obviously text has its advantages, specifically when you’re sat in a meeting or on an ultra quiet train carriage — but I really like the concept of voice messaging.