Acision has announced the launch of Visual Voicemail, a fully integrated, easy-to-use graphical multimedia interface it said dramatically improves the mobile voicemail experience. Developed in partnership with Action Engine, Visual Voicemail is designed to let operators offer simplified and enhanced viewing, playback and management of voicemail. Acision said its solution offers an evolutionary path to other advanced messaging services through the company's convergence platform.

Visual Voicemail is slated to be available on a variety of Java, BREW and Windows Mobile handsets (at press time, the company could not provide a timetable for likely release). There are also a few wrinkles to Visual Voicemail not available on the iPhone including the ability to forward voicemail text alerts to any e-mail address, deletion of individual messages and support for "confidential" and "priority" flags on voicemail messages. Another potential differentiator (for better or worse depending on your viewpoint) is the ability to insert advertising in messages.

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