VOXOX Blog

The fax machine is alive and well. Just look around. Notice the scarcity of trees? Okay, you probably don’t live in a forest and aren’t watching the destruction of over ten million trees daily, but it’s happening around the world. About 35 percent of cut trees are used for making paper. Here in the United States, we are the top consumers, with each American using an average of over one-third ton of paper each year.¹

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, iPhone, Voxox, VoIP, Android

In October of 2012, Solenne San Jose received a bit of a shock.

Solenne, who lives near the Bordeaux wine country in France, had terminated her service contract with Telecom Bouygues to change to a different provider. She was told by her old carrier that she would be required to pay a cancellation fee on the following month’s bill.

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, iPhone, Voxox, VoIP, Android

My stepfather, Bob, is 89 years old. To get your brain around what it means to be 89, consider this: As a young adult, he was one of the brave soldiers who landed in the D-Day invasion at Normandy.

He is literally a part of history. He’s also an “early adopter.” Which is why he was the first person — way back in the 1990s — from whom I’d ever heard the term “VoIP.”

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, iPhone, Voxox, VoIP, Android

The Voxox app is packed with a ton of really cool (and really free) features, and we would love for you to share your favorite feature with us in the community. I know it can be hard to think of one specific Voxox feature, and there may be some you don’t know about, so let’s take a look at some of our most popular features, including free calling.

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, iPhone, Voxox, Messaging, Android

Everyone loves to get something for free. We’ll even pay to get it. “Spend $75 today and get a free gift!” It doesn’t even matter what it is. It could be free shipping or a free piggy bank. I was once the happy recipient of a plastic dog food cap. Often freebies are things we’ll never use. But we can all use free phone calls! And that’s just one of the features to expect when choosing a mobile VoIP app.

Topics: Communication, iPhone, Voxox, Messaging, VoIP, SMS, Text Communication, Android

Barriers

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

This iconic phrase from President Ronald Reagan’s 1987 speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin echoes through recent history — a call to break down the infamous Berlin Wall and unite a country separated by war and politics.

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, iPhone, Voxox, Messaging, VoIP, Android

You deserve a vacation! But sometimes taking a vacation is more work than staying on the job. There’s the planning, tuning up the car, scheduling flights, coordinating the kids’ school breaks, finding a pet sitter. Then there’s all that packing (“What if I forget something?”). You may start to think it’s too much trouble, but the promise of new experiences keeps you on track. In the end it’ll all be worth it.

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, iPhone, Voxox, VoIP, Android

In this digital age, for better or worse, we are bombarded with data. Since the advent of smartphones, the only thing we need to do to write a paper or solve an argument is reach into our pockets and pull out the phone. Information is readily available. But time was when mnemonics were used prodigiously to retain information not yet available on small devices living in our pockets.

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, iPhone, Voxox, Messaging, VoIP, Cost Savings, Android

In Jules Verne’s 1873 adventure novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg travels by train, steamer ship, elephant (and anything else he can find) to advance his journey and win a bet he’s made with his friends. Graphically, Around the World in Eighty Days has been consistently linked with images of hot air balloons. Surprisingly, however, Verne’s hero never uses one in the novel — it’s merely a marketing invention to help sell the movie.¹ And, like the fictitious Phileas himself, I’ve also never taken to the skies in a balloon.

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, iPhone, Voxox, VoIP, Android

Gossip Group

If you want something to be known by everyone, just tell my sister. She can’t keep a secret. This can work to my advantage or disadvantage. If there’s a surprise party being planned, I can usually winkle it out of her. If I need her help with surprising someone, beware! In any surprise-planning situation, there’s a 50-50 chance of an information leak. If there is a leak, there’s a 95% chance it was my sister.

Topics: Voice Communication, iPhone, Voxox, Messaging, VoIP, Text Communication, Android