Verizon Wireless today introduced Visual Voice Mail, an application that works much like Apple’s iPhone Visual Voicemail. The application is available for the LG Voyager, an iPhone-clone of sorts, that gives the Verizon user the ability to check voicemail right on their phone. Going beyond the iPhone’s simple listen at your conveniences, Verizon’s Visual Voicemail allows for customers to forward voice mail messages in addition to the ability to listen, delete, and reply to. The non-linear system allows a Verizon customer to retain up to 40 messages for 40 days on their LG Voyager.

Verizon also notes that customers can create up to 10 greetings, 20 distribution lists and 50 distribution members to receive messages.

Verizon relies on the Alcatel-Lucent 5150 Messaging Applications Broker (MAB) for visual voice mail, “Which provides enhanced notification and content delivery services for voice, text and video messages through an intuitive visual interface.”

2 Responses to “Verizon Matches iPhone with Its Own Visual Voicemail”

1. Sean Rafferty, CMPS Says:
   August 15th, 2008 at 22:06

   It’s official, Sven’s little bro has entered 2.0

   I think this is the first comment I’ve left on SOT …perhaps HyperSven, no?

   Well, I’ve added you to my A list in Google Reader

   You must be beaming with glee!

   I for one will still likely abandon VZW once I’m unchained in a year or so. Great service and network, but yeah… I want an iPhone too

2. Sven LL Rafferty Says:
   August 16th, 2008 at 8:50

   I am indeed beaming! Sweet!

   You had me wondering on the VZW thing. I’m like, ‘Dude, you love VZW as much as me,’ but then I saw the iPhone desire, too. Yup, on a crappy network but a great phone. Can’t wait for the VZW iPhone. Heck, if the Google phone is as good as it looks, I may just get that over the iPhone to get back to VZW.