RMS is like voicemail for cellphones. Except that we already have that.

First it was SMS, which is just basic text messaging. Then there was MMS, which is like text messaging except you can send pics and video clips (and still has yet to really catch on here), now a company called HeyAnita is trying to push RMS, or Rapid Message Service, which, believe it or not, basically lets you send a voice message to another person. We liked it better when it was called "voicemail". We can sorta see why it'd be helpful, like if you don't want to tap out a message AND you don't actually want to have a conversation with someone (we've all prayed for the machine to pick up at one point or another, but there's a much simpler solution — the cellphone carriers should create some sort of special prefix that you can dial if you want your call to go straight to voicemail. It'd be way easier than this. Don't tell us this can't be done.

[Via GigaOm]