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We’re not talking about hamburgers.  MobileCrunch reports that in 2007, more than 1 Billion Mobile phones were sold to consumers. At GotVoice, more mobile phone sales means more people can receive voicemail as text messages, so these stats are very interesting:

The article quotes:

According to figures from Gartner, sales of mobile phones surpassed 1.15 billion units in 2007. This number is a 16% increase from 2006’s numbers of 999 million units sold. Much of this growth is due to emerging markets like China and India where many people are buying their first handset.

Nokia is still the world’s alpha male of mobile phone manufacturers. It sold 435 million handsets last year. Throughout 2007, Nokia controlled 37.8% of global market share. For the first time, Nokia accounted for 40% of all sales in the fourth quarter.

If you are going to be at TMIA next week, please feel free to contact GotVoice VP of Marketing Colin Lamont. Colin will be speaking on a panel entitled, “Voice to Text” on Thursday.

If you have ideas for partnerships, co-marketing opportunities or just want to talk about Voicemail tools, Colin will be available most of the week.  Shoot him a quick email from here.

Web Worker Daily does a nice write up of GotVoice this week. The article does an excellent job of explaining some of the difficulties of trying to develop a Voice-to-Text Platform. Rather than just complain about some features that are notoriously hard to accomplish, WWD tells the reader why they are hard, and focuses on the positives. One great line was, “If you get a lot of (voicemail) though, being able to avoid listening to all your messages in linear form saves lots of time.”

Anyway, thanks to the folks over at the Giga Omni Media Team for putting the story together.

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As if the city of Phoenix didn’t have enough going on with the Super Bowl last weekend, the town was also busy throwing the biggest party / golf tournament on the PGA Tour - the FBR Open.  Over 4 days more than 500,000 went through the gates.

Now technically, you cannot bring phones into the event.  If you are caught talking on your phone, you can have the device confiscated - or worse.  Plus, since everyone had to have the ringers turned off, it made it nearly impossible to get incoming calls.  And with 170,000 people at the event Saturday, getting separated from your friends created real logistical nightmares.

So the GotVoice Voicemail to Text functionality was a real lifesaver.  Rather than having to listen to a long line of voicemails from people trying to find us, we could just look down and see the message.   Very useful.  And no cell phones were confiscated in the process.