I’ve seen gladlyCast around for quite awhile but only decided to give it a try. I’ve never wanted to try because Internet was almost available to me anytime.
My short experience with gladlyCast was smooth, but not so smooth too. Here’s why.
That’s not my number!
I purposely tested the server with a few mobile numbers. After sending in, I clicked on “That’s not my number!”, I was redirected back to the same “Confirm your number” page within seconds. That wasn’t so helpful. I don’t know why this happened and I’m making a guess that the page already discovered that I’ve sent a message to the service with the “secret message”.
Phone number display – could be improved!
I verified my mobile number with a Singapore line. Why did the site show me a Malaysian number and expected me to mouseover to find the other. I thought since the site was so sweet and simple, they could lay it side by side.
Oh, when I was shown the secret message, I was given the same screen whereby I could mouseover and select a number and click. I clicked on the Malaysian number, but confirmed with a Singaporean line. Amazingly, everything worked! I thought this would be alittle misleading. Heh.
What mobile network?
+6012795 9876 looks like it’s running on Maxis, but since Malaysia telcos allow number porting, the number could be on DiGi or even Celcom. gladlyCast, will you be able to specify the network, and maybe expand on the mobile lines? I’m on Digi and I am willing to sponsor a Digi prepaid card for a year or two. (I do know Digi has a plan that allow free smses after first 50cents each day!) 
P.S I’m not trying to find fault, but my first secret message was “Jack likes Brian”. Isn’t that gay?
Category: Technology
Tagged: celcom, digi, gladlycast, malaysia, maxis, review, SMS, tweet, twitter
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i’ve already sent my secret message to gladlycast but they said they have’nt receive it yet.Its been 30 mins.Why? This is fustrating.geez.Help me^^
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Felix, thanks for your review and your kind and honest feedback.
We are glad that your sign up is working.
Regarding the feedback:
1. We will look into the issue on the clicking of “That’s not my number”. We did not have that many phone numbers like you do to test that. We’ll definitely go and loan some to test it. Haha.
2. Phone number display: We are listing the various phone numbers that we support on the homepage. At the instructions, we decide not to list that many because it can get messy and confusing. You probably have guessed that simplicity and user experience are very important to us.
To aid in that, we have automatically place country-detection to detect which country you are in and present you with the number from the country that you are visiting the site from. In case that is wrong, we still allow you to switch the phone number by using the drop-down menu. As far as we know, not that many users visit different countries very often.
3. Our Malaysian number is with Maxis.
Thanks again for your feedback and hope you’ll like our service.