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visual voicemail

A smartphone app that downloads voice messages from the carrier into the phone. Instead of dialing a voicemail phone number and entering a passcode as has been done for decades with cellphones, users open their app and see a list of messages with phone numbers and times. Also unlike dialed-up messages that are played sequentially, visual voicemails can be listened to in any order, and the messages are always available because they are already in the phone. Apple popularized visual voicemail with the iPhone, but the "visual" only refers to the list of messages, "not" viewable text. However, "truly visual" voicemail, wherein messages are converted to readable text, is available from several sources for most smartphones (see YouMail). See virtual voicemail.
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YouMail's completely free flagship Visual Voicemail Plus application offers a true multi-platform, unified and social voicemail experience for its users on Android, iPhone, Windows Phone 8, and Windows Phone 7, and is being increasingly adopted by consumers and by carriers as either the default or recommended voicemail service.
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Finnish messaging solutions developer Tecnomen Corporation (OMX Helsinki: TEM1V) said on Tuesday (22 July) that it has implemented a Visual Voicemail application for Swisscom AG, supporting the company's launch of the Apple iPhone.
It also gives the user visual voicemail, with the names and numbers of callers who leave messages appearing in an on-screen list.
Another great feature is the Visual Voicemail. Rather than forcing you to call your voice mail and waiting to browse through multiple messages to hear the one you want, Visual Voicemail displays all the messages you have in a list, similar to an e-mail in-box.
The Unwired Planet name and logo, Visual Voicemail, and all terms carrying the "UP." prefix are trademarks and uplanet.com is a registered trademark of Unwired Planet, Inc.
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