Apple iPhone brought many revolutionary features when it was launched last year.  One of those features was Visual Voice Mail and it made you think, why no cellphone maker/carrier thought about this before. Now every carrier that doesn’t have the iPhone wants to compete with it. One of the ways they are doing this is by adding Visual Voice Mail to their phones. Sprint started supporting Visual Voice Mail for Samsung Instinct few months ago and today, Verizon officially launched their Visual Voice Mail service. The service is similar to the iPhone’s Visual Voice Mail, but adds new features like ability to add an unknown caller as a contact, forward messages, or store permanent copies to the phone.
The service also offers up to 40 messages stored on the server for 40 days and users can have 10 different custom greetings. The service will be first launched for LG Voyager – an iPhone like touchscreen phone. Verizon will introduce the service for other phones later. The new LG Voyager phones will come preloaded with the necessary software for Visual Voice Mail, while the existing users can bring their phones to retail shop for a software patch. Verizon customers will be charged $3 per month and also data fees, if you don’t have a data plan for Visual Voice Mail.