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Good news, everyone! Visual voicemail on BlackBerry, a feature heretofore unseen north of the border, is now available to Bell Mobility customers. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, it allows you to cruise through your voicemail messages in a list, complete with dates and caller IDs, and listen to them on-demand, rather than having to chew through a call-in service with dialtone commands. AT&T has been offering VVM on the Bold 9000 since the summer, but Bell’s rollout will span a considerably wider range of devices: the Bold 9700, Tour 9630, Curve 8330, Pearl 8130, World Edition 8830, and whatever else they release in the future.
The catch? Bell is dinging you $8/month for the privilege. Man, for that much, you might as well get SpinVox or PhoneTag and get the added bonus of transcription, especially considering AT&T is giving it out for free. Still, if you’re interested, go to bell.ca/visualvoicemail for more info.
[via CNW]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
