YouMail's visual voicemail comes calling on iPhone

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YouMail's visual voicemail app for iPhone may look less sexy than the sleek, crafted app interfaces we've grown used to, but in its first effort, functionality will be more important than form.

This last weekend, users of YouMail's freemium Visual Voicemail Plus service were able to start reading and responding to voice messages from their iPhone. Like rival visual voicemail services, YouMail lets you manage voice messages like e-mail in exchange for making the service your default mobile answering machine. In addition to playing back voice messages in any order you choose, you're able to save, delete, and respond from YouMail. Full story...