With this feature, all your voicemails will be in one convenient place, where you can check and retrieve messages using any phone, from the web, or via email. Plus, receive notifications on your mobile phone when anyone leaves a voicemail on your home-office line or cell phone, showing who called, when they called, and how long of a message they left.

Connect the PhoneGnome box to your home-office line and activate Premium Voicemail (only $19.95 per year, or approx $1.66 per month). PhoneGnome Premium Voicemail includes a free US direct-dial number for accessing Voicemail from any phone easily. You can use this number with the “Conditional Forwarding” feature of your mobile phone service to use the same PhoneGnome Premium Voicemail for your home-office line and cell phone.

For GSM phones (AT&T or T-Mobile), on your mobile phone, dial the following sequence:

*004*1number*11#

For instance, if your PhoneGnome Premium Voicemail direct-dial number is 253-555-4321, you would dial the following on your call phone: *004*12535554321*11#

For Verizon, you would dial: *7112535554321

Now when someone calls your cell phone or home-office number and leaves a message, it will go to your PhoneGnome Premium Voicemail. You can receive the message in email, so if you have a cell phone that supports email, you can listen to the message immediately using the phone’s email app. If you have an iPhone (or Android phone), there is a custom interface to select and play specific messages without having to navigate a voice menu. Or, retrieve and listen to messages via the web on your PC:

Finally, you can always retrieve messages the “old fashioned way” simply by dialing the direct-dial number from any phone, or dial **123 on your PhoneGnome phone (home office phone).

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PhoneGnome allows users to enjoy many benefits of a house phone, with no monthly fees.

• Greater Reliability – avoid problems with weak wireless signals, dead batteries, and other limits of cell phones.
• Clearer Quality – call around the world with crystal clear reception
• Save Money – avoid burning cell phone minutes when at home

There are other free SIP services – the advantage of PhoneGnome is easy automated setup. Simply connect the PhoneGnome box and complete a simple automated web site registration and you’re up and running in minutes. Other services require complicated manual configuration of the hardware, such as SIP proxy, STUN server, port mapping etc. With PhoneGnome, it’s all automatic. Plus, you get all the other free benefits of PhoneGnome service, like free voicemail-to-email, call recording, softphone, on-line call logs, missed call notifications, mobile phone integration, hop-on/hop-off, PBX integration, free auxiliary accounts, and more.

There’s even a “Bring Your Own Device” option if you already have compatible hardware or want to purchase the hardware elsewhere.

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PhoneGnome allows users to use their Vonage, cable TV, ooma, or other phone service from a PC or other SIP compatible device or software – even iPhone or Android phones.

Open SIP credentials allow users to use an existing phone service as a “trunk” with an Asterisk or other PBX. Share it with frends and family!

Buy the PhoneGnome box and create free accounts for your friends to use with the free PhoneGnome softphone so you can all each other free.

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1. Lower costs
2. Additional Features and Benefits

1. Lower Costs

Get the absolute cheapest landline service, and still have Three-way Calling, Call Forwarding, Call Transfer, Speed Dial, Telemarketer Screen, Do Not Disturb, and more, free with no monthly fees.

Use VoIP for long-distance calls seamlessly and automatically. Lowest possible rates – as low as free for many calls. Nothing to learn. Save on all calls made in the household. No computer needed and no software to install. No special phone or training of the household required – they won’t even know it’s VoIP.

2. Additional Features and Benefits

There are many features provided with PhoneGnome, but here are a few of the most liked:

1. Missed call notifications – get an SMS when on your mobile phone when you miss a call on your home phone.
2. Telemarketing Screening and Do Not Disturb Family-time features.
3. Softphone to place and receive calls anywhere you have your PC and an Internet connection. Use the free PC software or use the PhoneGnome Open SIP credentials with any softphone, ATA, Asterisk, iPhone, Android, etc. SIP software of your choice.

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These blog posts will describe some of the most common ways that real people are using PhoneGnome to improve their lives in one way or another.

We will put all these articles into a separate “How To” Category so they will be easy to find and use as a reference.

Current PhoneGnome Owners

If you are an owner of the PhoneGnome add-on, you can create a supplementary account for your mobile or other auxiliary phone by clicking the following link: Create a supplementary account.

Activate an Account

If you are not an owner and would like to use PhoneGnome service without the PhoneGnome hardware, you can activate an account simply by opening an account with an initial balance using the following link: https://secure.hhonegnome.com/newsignup.cgi

Voovox

For a completely “BYOD” VoIP Service Provider, may we also suggest Voovox.com

Voovox offers affordable Voice-over-IP services for end-users and businesses

Voovox Voice over IP (VoIP) communication services include: A-Z Termination, Virtual Calling Card, Callback, Personal Numbers, Toll-Free Numbers, Conferencing, and SMS services.

The new iPhone interface for PhoneGnome

The new iPhone app for PhoneGnome offers calling using your PhoneGnome account, or, in other words, remote access to your fixed, cable, ooma, Magic Jack, or VoIP phone service. Place calls directly using the iPhone-styled dialer, or by selecting from your My PhoneGnome contacts. Listen to your voicemail with random access, and without making a phone call, directly on your iPhone. You can also send international SMS at low PhoneGnome rates.

David Beckemeyer, leading the PhoneGnome iPhone project, said, �It’s got a great new look and has some great new touches that will make your PhoneGnome experience on iPhone a bit more fun and a lot more useful.�

Across the bottom are shown four primary configurations of PhoneGnome service, split between US and International (non-US in our case) and customers using the PhoneGnome-box (add-on device), shown in blue, and those using the service without the PhoneGnome-box hardware.

Within each configuration are the listed benefits to the user corresponding with that configuration.

At the top of the chart is the flowchart decision tree that arrives at one of the possible configurations.

I think from this chart, it make it pretty obvious why PhoneGnome is really hard to message and explain to new customers. First, the four configurations have different value stories. Second, even within a single configuration different customer segments will prioritize and value the benefits differently.

The two blue boxes, labeled “Full Impact” and “High Impact” represent “PhoneGnome 1.0″ – the initial 2005 focus of PhoneGnome, users connecting the box to their fixed-line (home) telephone service to obtain new benefits. Our early research broke these users into three main groups: Traditionalists, Globalists, and Gurus.

Traditionalists value plug-and-play simplicity, safety of real 911, and mostly care about the benefits of cheap calling and telemarketer screening. Globalists have high usage and enjoy the benefit of free and cheap calling, along with voicemail. Gurus are more tech. savvy and value cheap calling, voicemail, telemarketer screening, and other features (softphone, online call logs, etc.)

In late 2006, we introduced “PhoneGnome 2.0″ and the option to use PhoneGnome service without the PhoneGnome add-on device (no hardware). This added the other two configuration options shown on the chart. This expanded the addressable market, but made describing PhoneGnome even more complicated.

From the chart below, it’s no wonder that it’s difficult to boil PhoneGnome down to a single simple sentence – and that’s a recipe for disaster in terms of marketing.

So what would you do? Let us know in the comments below.

Comprehensive service and support

• Extends email technical support from 90 days to up to three years from original purchase date
• Extends hardware repair coverage to up to three years from original purchase date.

Quality and convenience

• Expert PhoneGnome personal technical support through email.
• Repairs performed by PhoneGnome-authorized technicians using genuine PhoneGnome parts.
• Service plans are renewable if submitted 30 days prior to the original plan’s expiration.
• Service plans plans are 100% transferable.
• No deductables – we are committed to cover 100% parts and labor costs on any authorized claim.

Available Plans

Plans purchased within 30-days of original sales receipt
Coverage Term	Cost	Buy
One year – 12 months	$20.00
Three years – 36 months	$40.00
Plans purchased more than 30-days after date of original sales receipt
Coverage Term	Cost	Buy
One year – 12 months	$55.00
Three years – 36 months	$75.00

Learn More About PhoneGnome Protection Plans

If you want to call a Skype user named echo123 you simply call SIP address sip:echo123@opensky.gizmo5.com

Enter the opensky.gizmo5.com SIP address, formatted as above, into the “Quick Call” field on your My PhoneGnome home page, and click ‘Call’. You can also enter the address into a contact in your PhoneGnome Phone Book and dial directly from your PhoneGnome connected handset (for box users) with a speed-dial code.

With the free service, calls are limited to 3-5 minutes.