YouMail Introduces Android Update With Social Voicemail

To enhance the communication between various departments and channels, YouMail Inc. has updated its free Android (News - Alert) Visual Voicemail Plus application. The application now allows users to easily share voicemail not only through e-mail or text messages, but also by posting them directly to Facebook and Twitter. These new social features make YouMail the most comprehensive and feature-rich visual voicemail service anywhere.

YouMail's Visual Voicemail Plus is the company's flagship, a state-of-the-art mobile voicemail service, with applications available for the Android, iPhone, BlackBerry (News - Alert), Palm, and Windows Phone 7 platforms. According to the press release, with this new version users can now easily post voicemail on their Facebook wall, and tweet voicemails using existing Android Twitter clients, like HTC's (News - Alert) Peep.

YouMail automatically maps incoming phone numbers to e-mail addresses, so users can easily reply to an incoming voicemail with an e-mail or text message, either directly through the YouMail client itself, or through other messaging clients like Gmail –with the reply automatically including a link to the original voicemail to provide context. Whenever a caller leaves a message, YouMail pulls and displays incoming caller photos from the phone's address book and the user's Facebook account –giving users a truly visual voicemail.

 Alex Quilici (News - Alert), CEO of YouMail commented that YouMail is “leading the way in integrating voicemail into the age of social media and voicemail is migrating from a standalone experience into one that's social and intertwined with the rest of a consumer's daily communications.”

The average U.S. YouMail user receives 50 or more calls each month that they are unwilling or unable to answer. YouMail's free service allows voicemail to be easily accessed, managed, and shared from any smart phone, tablet or web connection. YouMail can also be used to unify a user's mobile voicemail with their voice messages from VoIP service providers such as Google Voice, MagicJack, OOMA, and Vonage (News - Alert).
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Edited by Jennifer Russell