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.

A few blog posts ago, we mentioned how people were using GotVoice in their international travels, as a way to check their Voicemail from an Internet cafe rather than having to pay expensive roaming charges.

So in the spirit of Travel Tips and Tricks, but from the opposite perspective, we send along a tip from Mobile Crunch about how to make cheaper international calls from your Mobile, using a service called Mobile Talk from Packet 8.

According to a part of the story: “Calls can be made to China, the UK and Mexico for 3 cents a minute or less. Not bad if you are an international person of mystery on a budget. Packet8 costs $10.00 a month with a one time $10.00 activation fee. The service works on over 400 handsets and most carriers.”

Let us know if you run across any other technologies that help with travel or international communications.

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