YouMail Delivers Free Visual Voicemail For Smartphones

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--YouMail (www.youmail.com), the only generally available, free, customizable cell phone voicemail service, today announced the public beta of visual voicemail for smartphone users. The new mobile platform allows users to access YouMail from their smartphone home screen, enabling them to listen to voicemail messages, forward messages on to other people, or reply via SMS without ever having to dial into their voicemail service.

“Since the launch of the iPhone, consumer appetite for visual voicemail on smartphones has been growing”

“Since the launch of the iPhone, consumer appetite for visual voicemail on smartphones has been growing,” said Alex Quilici, CEO of YouMail. “Our new visual voicemail service represents one more free and useful feature in our powerful and unique product offering. At a glance I can see all of my voicemails and choose which to play and in what order. For people who get a lot of voicemails per day, this provides an organized way to determine priority. In a world where we seem to find bite-size messages in SMS or Twitter form preferable, many people find this approach better than spending time listening to and often forgetting an audio message.”

To begin accessing YouMail’s visual voicemail service, users visit http://youmail.com from their cell phone browser and log in with their YouMail user ID. The user can then easily bookmark the site from their smartphone home screen for easy one-click access in the future. Visual voicemail from YouMail allows users to easily view, listen and forward their most recent voicemail messages, while viewing the callers photo, name, city and state. These features are available through the mobile Web so the user never has to call their mailbox.

YouMail’s new visual voicemail service works on nearly all smartphones, including the most popular handsets like Blackberries, Treos and the iPhone, and devices manufactured by Palm, Nokia and others.

YouMail offers the ultimate flexibility for accessing voicemail with three useful options: email, on the web, or over the phone. In addition, users have the ability to receive transcriptions of the voicemails sent in e-mail or text messages. YouMail is the only service currently available that allows users to choose which greetings a caller hears based on caller ID - recording greetings themselves, choosing from a large and growing library of user-generated greetings and away messages, or even using YouMail’s “Smart Greetings,” which automatically personalizes the greeting for the caller. Users can even treat voicemails as digital content they own, easily saving them forever and effortlessly sharing them using popular sites like MySpace, Facebook, Digg and Del.icio.us.

About YouMail

YouMail, Inc is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA. YouMail provides a free, dramatically better cell phone voicemail service that allows users to better express their personality and be more productive through a collection of unique and powerful features, and the leveraging of the YouMail community of users. The service has a growing set of distribution partnerships with major mobile service and content providers. To learn more and sign up for the free YouMail service, go to http://www.youmail.com.