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Voicemail can be a blessing and a curse.  When you are unable to answer the phone, it’s nice to have a place where people can leave a message.  But when you have to listen to message after message to get to the important ones, it can be frustrating.  For BlackBerry users, YouMail has developed Visual Voicemail Plus, an application that allows you to see information about voicemails before you listen.  It can even transcribe voicemail into text for when you are unable to check it.

The Visual Voicemail Plus app can be downloaded for free from the YouMail website.  Of course, you have to be a customer of YouMail to use it.  Once downloaded on your phone, you will be able to scroll through voicemail information like message length and when the call was made.  You can also play, forward, and delete voicemails from the app.

If you are or become a customer of YouMail’s transcription services, you can receive your voicemails as text messages that the app can post to a blog or even send to a myriad of social networking sites.  For you open source folks, the Visual Voicemail Plus API is available in a beta version, allowing you to create apps that add other functionality to the software.  We’ve come a long way from “leave your message at the beep.”

Read: [Press Release]