Windows Phone Mango visual voicemail demo [video]

By Tom Warren, on 8th Jul 11 10:11 pm with 9 Comments

Microsoft has built a visual voicemail feature into Windows Phone Mango.

The software giant hasn’t detailed the feature officially but bloggers at pocketnow.com have managed to activate it fully inside the latest Windows Phone Mango beta. The feature works as you’d expect by allowing Windows Phone users to play their voicemail messages in a visual way. Phone users typically have to dial their voicemail number and use the keypad to access messages. Visual Voicemail will display your voicemail history in a list and allow you to play and pause your messages. Users can also select multiple voicemails to easily delete them.

Visual Voicemail is currently available natively on Apple’s iPhone devices and through third-party applications on Google’s Android devices. The feature allows users to listen to voicemails without having to dial a special voicemail service. Visual Voicemail is particularly useful for seeing who has left you messages and being able to rewind or fast forward them easily.

Visual Voicemail in Windows Phone Mango can be toggled with an on/off switch in the Phone settings of Windows Phone Mango and the feature requires support from your mobile operator.

  • Grannyville7989

    Neat.

  • Kanelp

    Looks good.  I’ve just setup Google Voice myself on my Samsung Focus which does this.  But it would be nice to have it directly built into the phone instead of having to use an app.

  • Anonymous

    Much needed function. Great job Microsoft! I’m going back when we get newer models,

  • http://twitter.com/theloz Loz Lowe

    Bear in mind this is carrier-dependent. I think O2 are the only network that support visual voicemail in the UK at present.

  • http://twitter.com/quentez Quentin Calvez

    I have the Visual Voicemail option activated on my Orange France account… Yet I can’t enable this feature on Mango… I so hate carriers -_-

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure Apple is flattered.

    • Anonymous

      or samsung even, I believe they had it first on a feature phone..

    • Anonymous

      Yep, Samsung had it on the Instinct before Apple had it.

  • Anonymous

    I updated my Focus yesterday to Mango, but I don’t have that Visual Voicemail yes/no option in phone settings. Not sure thsi is a hacked feature or Mango feature..!