Got My Yackie Card - And It's Working Fine

snidely · 09-07-2006, 19:37

My review:

Incoming call, about 3 min., was surprisingly good quality. Not landline quality, but pretty damn good. If it is this good most of the time - Yackie will be excellent to use. System passed ID of originating phone.

Outgoing - about 2 min. was not as good as two very short test calls I made a few days ago. Voices broke up a little - but after 30 seconds quality did seem to improve. Since outgoing calls are twice as expensive - if you know the call will be more than a minute or two, you should have the party call you back.

There is a long period of dead air (10-15 seconds) when calling the Yackie number. They seem to have now installed a recording asking you to wait while the call is being conneccted - BUT - the recording doesn't kick in until after 10 seconds of dead air.

Voice mail - The default recording says something like "you have reached number xxx (numbers have no relationship to anything) please leave a message". Very easy to put in a personal greeting. VM pickup and prompts were landline like quality.
Important feature: If someone calls and doesn't leave a msg., you get an SMS in a few seconds saying "call recvd. fm. number xxx, no msg. left". If a msg is left, the SMS will say "call recvd. fm. number xxx, dial *151 to listen".
This feature saves you the expense of listening to the msg. before calling!
I assume there is no way of accessing VM other than via the Yackie phone.

SMS: Test msg. to/fm. my U.S. T-Mobile phone went thru in just 2-5 seconds.

The only way I found out the Israeli number which is needed to send an SMS to the Yackie phone - was to send an outgoing SMS to my T-M phone. It displayed the Israeli number on the incoming SMS. (If you try voice calling that 972 Israeli number you get a recording that says "the number you have dialed is not connected".)

My Yackie SIM is presently in an SE r520m tri-band phone that requires I menu dial outgoing calls. That was/is no problem what-so-ever. Direct dialing fm. my Moto V330 worked well last Monday.

When you get the callback on outgoing calls (delay 5 to 10 seconds), the caller shows as "unknown". You then get a voice saying something like "please hold while your call is connected and you hear a ringing tone". On the test call this AM, it was picked up by Stan so fast it was before the recording finshed.

Would be glad to run any other tests members here suggest.

...mike

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snidely (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 451 Join Date: 09 May 2005 Location: Berkeley, California and Miami Country:	09-07-2006, 19:37 My review: Incoming call, about 3 min., was surprisingly good quality. Not landline quality, but pretty damn good. If it is this good most of the time - Yackie will be excellent to use. System passed ID of originating phone. Outgoing - about 2 min. was not as good as two very short test calls I made a few days ago. Voices broke up a little - but after 30 seconds quality did seem to improve. Since outgoing calls are twice as expensive - if you know the call will be more than a minute or two, you should have the party call you back. There is a long period of dead air (10-15 seconds) when calling the Yackie number. They seem to have now installed a recording asking you to wait while the call is being conneccted - BUT - the recording doesn't kick in until after 10 seconds of dead air. Voice mail - The default recording says something like "you have reached number xxx (numbers have no relationship to anything) please leave a message". Very easy to put in a personal greeting. VM pickup and prompts were landline like quality. Important feature: If someone calls and doesn't leave a msg., you get an SMS in a few seconds saying "call recvd. fm. number xxx, no msg. left". If a msg is left, the SMS will say "call recvd. fm. number xxx, dial *151 to listen". This feature saves you the expense of listening to the msg. before calling! I assume there is no way of accessing VM other than via the Yackie phone. SMS: Test msg. to/fm. my U.S. T-Mobile phone went thru in just 2-5 seconds. The only way I found out the Israeli number which is needed to send an SMS to the Yackie phone - was to send an outgoing SMS to my T-M phone. It displayed the Israeli number on the incoming SMS. (If you try voice calling that 972 Israeli number you get a recording that says "the number you have dialed is not connected".) My Yackie SIM is presently in an SE r520m tri-band phone that requires I menu dial outgoing calls. That was/is no problem what-so-ever. Direct dialing fm. my Moto V330 worked well last Monday. When you get the callback on outgoing calls (delay 5 to 10 seconds), the caller shows as "unknown". You then get a voice saying something like "please hold while your call is connected and you hear a ringing tone". On the test call this AM, it was picked up by Stan so fast it was before the recording finshed. Would be glad to run any other tests members here suggest. ...mike Make use of T-M's UMA/wifi free calling from any place in the world with access to wifi. I use an LG G6, wife an S7) A/o Oct 20, 2013 no need for intl prepaid as T-Mobile U.S. includes voice roaming at 20¢/min (in and out)., unlimited text (in and out), and unlimited data in 140+ countries. My Plan -[6 lines] U.S. T-Mobile unlimited minutes (incoming and outgoing), unlimited text, fast data on each line. that $145/mo. total! . (In U.S. no surcharge for calling a cell.) If a line exceeds 2G of data in a month, pay $10 more for that line. [That only happens a couple times/year.