On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:48:24 -0700, SMS wrote:
On 09/10/10 8:27 AM, AZ Nomad wrote:

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Why carry two devices when the cell phone can do everything the pager
does. Why have people leave a message on one device forcing you to manually
dial it on another device? Just leave the message on the cell phone,
and then call back later.

The cell phone can be set to vibrate when it receives a voice mail, and
of course in the "received calls" it will show who called unless they
have caller ID blocking. What you can't do, unless you send a text, is
to send a number to call back that displays on the screen.

All the cell phone companies have both 1) the ability to leave a number
instead of a message and 2) the ability to call back the person who left
the voicemail with a single command.

I don't see having to read the # off a pager to be manually typed into
a cell phone as a great feature.