Bell offers up $8/month Visual Voicemail for select BlackBerry devices

Posted in News. Written by admin on December 23rd, 2009

BlackBerry devices aren’t an exclusively item for carrier these days especially in the case of the Bold 9700 which is available on all three major carriers in Canada. Bell, however, is now setting themselves apart from the rest of the pack with the introduction of Visual Voicemail for BlackBerry devices, the first carrier to offer up such a service in Canada.

Bell Visual Voicemail for BlackBerry

With Visual Voicemal, you can now see the date/time and sender of the message, and since it’s delivered as an audio file to your phone, you can also listen to it whenever you’d like to even if you’re no longer within the coverage area. Visual Voicemail for BlackBerry smartphone is available for an additional $8/month for those who are already subscribed to a basic voicemail plan.

Compatible BlackBerry smartphones include the Tour 9630, Curve 8330, World 8830, Pearl 8130, and the latest, Bold 9700. You can find out more about it by heading on over here.

Bell first in Canada to launch Visual Voicemail service on BlackBerry smartphones

Service allows Bell Mobility clients to visually manage voicemail on their BlackBerry smartphones, without calling into their voicemail boxes

MONTRÉAL, December 23, 2009 – Bell today announced the Canadian introduction of Visual Voicemail on select BlackBerry smartphones from Bell Mobility, offering clients easy voicemail management and synchronization without calling into their voicemail box.

“Visual Voicemail provides Bell Mobility clients a convenient way to manage voicemail by being able to choose which messages to listen to according to their own priorities,” said Adel Bazerghi, Senior Vice President of Products at Bell Mobility. “Being first in Canada to deliver the Visual Voicemail service on BlackBerry smartphones is another example of how Bell Mobility enables clients to do more things in more places.”

Visual Voicemail allows clients to listen to their voice messages in any order, and once received on their handsets, they can access them at any time, even in areas without wireless coverage, such as airplanes or subways. The service automatically synchronizes voice messages on a client’s BlackBerry smartphone with those in their voice mailbox, so if the client deletes a message on their handset, the message is also deleted from the voice mailbox.

By providing the flexibility to choose the order in which messages are reviewed, Visual Voicemail offers clients an easy and convenient way to manage voicemail according to their individual priorities. Clients can use Visual Voicemail to review, delete and forward messages as well as save important messages directly to the device’s internal memory or MicroSD/SDHC memory card. The service also enables clients to respond to voicemail either by text message or a voice call.

Visual Voicemail works on both HSPA and EVDO networks in Canada and worldwide and is now available on the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700, BlackBerry® Tour™ 9630, BlackBerry® Curve™ 8330, BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8130 and BlackBerry® 8830 World Edition™ smartphones and is expected to be available on additional BlackBerry smartphone models in the future.

Visual Voicemail for BlackBerry smartphones is available for $8 per month. Please visit bell.ca/visualvoicemail for more information.

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