Is there a market for Voice SMS

Voice SMS would allow people to send short voice messages over their mobile phones. "The technology behind this, called push-to-talk over cellular (POC), works like popular instant messenger software such as MSN Messenger and ICQ, but lets people send voice instead of text messages"

Ericsson says that up to 20% of the phone users interviewed in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Phlippines would be interested in such service. They said this is above the average user acceptance level for new services, which would be around 15%.

It is an interesting model, for sure, since it avoids the endless typing of SMS messages - no more worldrecord in SMS than.