iPhone Recognizes Audio Email Attachments
Dan at UneasySilence points out that if you’ve upgraded your iPhone to the latest version (1.1.1) the email viewer application now supports wav and mp3 files in your email. This is surprising to me that it wasn’t inherently in the iPhone to begin with…
Dan points out that this is useful if you’re using a voicemail service such as CallWave, but also if you’re a Vonage user like myself where your home voicemails come to you in email/wav format. Of course I’d love to get your feedback as to how well this new functionality works on the iPhone – does it actually play the files? I ask because it didn’t work natively on my Windows Mobile BlackJack until I upgraded it to version 6 of the platform – something about the wav file encoding that the player didn’t recognize… I’d assume Apple wouldn’t fall into the same mistake, but would love to hear verification from iPhone and Vonage users…
EDIT: According to Chris, although voicemail wav files are recognized on the 1.1.1 iPhone, they aren’t playable. Thanks Chris!
Chris on October 2nd, 2007 at 10:31 am
I receive the .wav attachments in my Vonage email message. The Mail app on the iPhone highlights it as a playable attachment with a QuickTime logo.
However, when I touch the attachment icon, and the iPhone QuickTime player lauches, a “This movie could not be played” error dialog is displayed.
Frank on October 2nd, 2007 at 10:34 am
What I’d really like to see is the ability to forward my visual voicemail as an MP3 attachment to an email. That’d be pretty neat.
Nick Santilli on October 2nd, 2007 at 11:00 am
Chris – dang! I’m surprised Apple has fallen victim to the same misstep that Microsoft. I’m sure they’ll rectify that soon…
Frank – Your bring up a great point that my father in law once mentioned. he wants the ability for his MacBook Pro and his iPhone to be in [bluetooth?] contact while near each other – or maybe linked via wifi – so that when an SMS message or voicemail comes in, he can quickly access on his laptop rather than his iPhone.
An interesting concept…
Thanks for the responses!
J.B. Malik on October 2nd, 2007 at 11:19 am
I have not yet used Callwave with an iPhone, but I do use Callwave with a regular iPhone and have found Callwave to be an indespensible, very helpful ‘tool’. You can read my review of the service here:
http://small-business-phone.com/?p=6
WG on October 2nd, 2007 at 11:54 am
I use PhoneValet and just noticed my iPhone will now play 3gp email attachments.
Kevin Zdyb on October 2nd, 2007 at 2:10 pm
I also have Vonage and when I get a voivemail I receive an email attachment that tries to get me to spend .25 to be able to read it. That would add up rather quickly. When I saw this blog I got excited to think that the 1.1 upgrade would fix this only to get let down. I get “This movie could not be played” when I try to play the .wav file.
DARN….
bingeboy on October 2nd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
this was in the old version. I had friends email me songs and it would show up in the email like a qt file.
Adam on November 12th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
I can’t play wav voicemails either.
does anyone know if the almighty apple are going to sort it out soon? I assume it is a codec thing?
Adam
Gilles on December 12th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
I’ve added support for this on http://www.vm2wm.com, it will convert the WAV attachement to an MP3 that can be played on the iPhone.
Rod Parmenter on December 13th, 2007 at 12:13 am
Can you use CallWave with iPhone and still get the iPhone visual voicemail?
Mario on February 4th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
If you have a JB iPhone, you can install the iPhone Native App for Vonage – Vonagent at http://www.vonagent.com. It allows you to listen to your Vonage (wav) voicemails and manage your call forwarding/simulring.
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