Visual Voicemail On The Edge Of Becoming The Next Big Trend

Since last February, I've been getting my home voice mail by email and I love it. Browsing and picking which messages to listen to is much better than hearing a robovoice say "To delete, press 9" for the 2749th time.

The iPhone innovated this year with "Visual Voicemail", a cell phone equivalent of email voicemail that lets you browse messages on your phone and listen to those of your choice only. And now it seems like they set the trend...

Recently, a software company launched a Java, BREW and Windows Mobile program that brings visual voicemail to most cell phones and even converts voice to text. And this week, Vodaphone, in Germany, announced that their handsets will also have a similar service called Visual Mailbox.

Here's an easy prediction: Visual voicemail will be a big trend through 2008 and will eventually become standard. Unless I'm totally over-enthusiast about visual voicemail. So what do you think?

Would You Prefer To Check Your Voice Mail Visually Or Through Audio Prompts As Usual?

a) I prefer the standard audio prompts
b) I prefer or would prefer visual voicemail
c) I like the visual voicemail concept so much, I think it will become a standard one day

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