Another Alpha project released, USA and Canada users only

Posts: 1327 · Vonage Forum **MVM** Joined: Nov 08, 2006 Posts: 1327

Vonage has released another alpha project, this time called Vonage Contact book. Please post on here what you think of it.

http://alpha.vonage.com/contactbook/sign_up

Vonage® ContactBook is an innovative communications center that allows you to have more control over how, when and where you communicate with your friends and family. From simple contact management to group calling, ContactBook will transform the way you think about your phone service. And best of all, while in Alpha, ContactBook is included with your Vonage service at no extra charge. Calls made using any of the features of ContactBook enjoy the same great rates as your other Vonage calls.

* Contact Management – Manage all your contacts in one centralized place. You can store all of your important contact information online including phone numbers, addresses, and e-mails.

* Import your Contacts – Easily import your existing contacts from Microsoft Outlook.

* Group Calling – Want to talk to friends or co-workers all at once? Vonage Group Calling allows you to talk with up to five contacts at the same time.

* Call Blast – Have a message that you need to send to a group of people? With Vonage Call Blast you can record a message and send it to up to 20 contacts with the click of a button.

* Click-To-Call® – Call a phone number with a simple click of the mouse. No memorization of phone numbers needed!

* Speed Dial – Create easy-to-remember speed dial numbers for your contacts. One more way to make your life easier with Vonage.

* Voice Activated Dialing – Simply dial *44 from your Vonage phone and say your contact's name and Vonage Voice Activated Dialing will place the call for you!

As Vonage® ContactBook grows you can expect to see a wide array of features being introduced . . . so stay tuned, we've only just begun!
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Posts: 1327 · Vonage Forum **MVM** Joined: Nov 08, 2006 Posts: 1327

Has anyone signed up for this yet?

Posts: 881 · Vonage Forum Evangelist Joined: Nov 05, 2005 Posts: 881

I like the idea and at some point I might sign up, but as of yet I have not signed up.

Posts: 1327 · Vonage Forum **MVM** Joined: Nov 08, 2006 Posts: 1327

As of now only for U.S customers, I would like to know what the interface is like. I am assuming it is like the GrandCentral setup.

Posts: 433 · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:00 pm Post subject:

Rumor has it.. Canada Vonage users can now sign up.

Since I do not live in Canada, I cannot say if this is true.

Good luck.

Posts: 1327 · Vonage Forum **MVM** Joined: Nov 08, 2006 Posts: 1327

I am now using the contact book.

I like the voice activated use. Just dial *44 and then say the name in your address book. Too bad this and other features don't work with Vonage talk. Also with *44 you have the option to call the number or send a message via email from your phone as a wav file.

There is speed dial, but I haven't figured it out yet.

Call blast will be a good idea for sport teams and such if an event is canceled.

I haven't used group calling, then again I haven't used 3 way calling before either.

I found it took awhile to import my contacts from Outlook.

Posts: 433 · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:04 am Post subject:

How did you get your contacts to import? I've tried to import both the vCard and CSV but both with no luck. What is the trick?

Posts: 1327 · Vonage Forum **MVM** Joined: Nov 08, 2006 Posts: 1327

I am assuming that you know how to export your contacts, then just import that file.

I found it kept on stating, importing.....importing....importing.

I opened the contact list in another tab and it was there.

Posts: 448 · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:38 am Post subject:

Oh for God's sake, here we go again with all these "other" features, yet we still haven't gotten Selective Call Block yet.

<sarcasm> Thanks Vonage...... thanks a lot. </sarcasm>

Posts: 1327 · Vonage Forum **MVM** Joined: Nov 08, 2006 Posts: 1327

That could becoming soon since there is now an address book and that is how Grand Central lets you block callers.