Vodafone Germany surprises with its own visual mailbox {Engadget Mobile}

Aug 30th 2007 2:46PM Visual Voicemail was available in the U.S. for free before the iPhone launched. Check out the SimulSays beta by SimulScribe www.simulsays.com - it enables users to sort through and pick each voicemail to listen to as well as READ their voicemail - a step up from the iPhone's "visual voicemail". SimulScribe and Arizona Bay partnered up to develop the app for Windows Mobile and BlackBerry. It lets you listen to your voicemail in any order, receive e-mail notifications, archive your messages, and otherwise manage them in a visual way on your smartphone. It also integrates with your smartphone's address book. If you don't have Window Mobile or a late model blackberry you can always use SimulScribe, the voicemail-to-text automated transcription service that lets you read your voice mail messages as text. SimulScribe costs $9.99 per month, plus $0.25 per message over 40 for that month. You can integrate SimulSays with SimulScribe to scroll, click, listen and READ your voicemail.

Here's three reviews by PC Magazine:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2173819,00.asp
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2151175,00.asp

check out this iPhone visual voicemail vs. SimulScribe video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVAX5OtbllU