Sorely want visual voicemail? take a peak at me

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I've been using this service for quite some time, and just like much of google is driven, its an ad based service thus free... Heres a small in review for the people that have not heard of this service... and forewarning, this is not an application developed for the android platform, but is useful nonetheless and my hopes are that a simple application will be produced in order to directly access your voicemail...

Once you create an account with youmail, you'll notice that the service is very graphically pleasing and simply put, an amazing time saver and extremely useful tool... Being flashed based, you typically can't use this on most windows mobile phones without the latest skyfire browser which is still in its beta stage, and you must sign up and wait in line in order to access the download for this... You set up the service, and its basically explained in the title of itself: visual voicemail... you can upload your gmail or outlook contacts to it, and any person that calls you and leaves a message, you'll be able to access quick and effectively through logging in on your computer (or hopefully the G1)... Not only can you upload your contacts, you can also:

- assign a picture to your contact
- make groups of contacts
- address a specific voicemail message for each person or group
- chose from a variety of premade messages you can use
- shorten your voicemail so when you call in you get instant access to them
- much faster than most cell phone carrier provided enhanced voicemail services
- have text messages sent to your phone notifying you of the person that left the message and at what time (or phone number)
- block numbers from your voicemail altogether

and tons more that I won't get into... They also have in the works a transcription service that will send you a text message (up to 4 messages i believe at this time) that does an admirable job at transcribing the message you just received into text message form so you can see if its important or not...

As you can see if you've experienced the visual voicemail service from the iphone and at&t, that its vastly superior feature wise than their service other than the lack of an applet that can run on your device natively...

so in summary, everyone should get it... its free, it works better than what you have, its an incredible time saver if you get a lot of voicemail, and quite simply it makes your communication life a lot easier...

if you decide to use it, support it and spread the word like i do when i find a product that i like a lot, let alone find a free one that this good...

Dan