Verizon Wireless introduced Visual Voice Mail, an application that manages voice mail on phones. It’s only available for LG Voyager owners at the moment, but more phones are surely to follow. Alcatel-Lucent is deploying their 5150 Messaging Applications Broker (MAB) to deliver voice, text and video messages through the intuitive visual interface. The big news is that it is not free as reported previously but confirms earlier rumors: it will cost $2.99 a line per month plus airtime or megabyte charges and messaging fees. Visual Voice Mail from Verizon provides an easy-to-use display screen with one-touch access to listen to voice mail messages. Without having to listen, you can delete, reply and forward their voice mail messages,to prior messages or voice instructions. Visual Voice Mail is really ideal for busy professionals who want a more effective way to manage and respond to messages. In order to prioritize and efficiently manage voice mail messages directly from phones, with Visual Voice Mail, customers can see a list of all of their voice mail messages with important information, such as date and time of receipt, as well as message duration. When a caller leaves a new voice mail message, the Visual Voice Mail application pops up, alerting the customer that a new voice mail message has been received. From the phone display, customers can select from a number of options, including call back, reply, forward, add to contacts, and archive message (to internal or external memory). The goodies, customers can store up to 40 messages for 40 days – double the storage capacity and nearly double the retention time of Basic Voice Mail. In addition, customers can create up to 10 greetings, as well as up to 20 distribution lists and 50 distribution members to receive messages.
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