T-mobile has been releasing a ton of new goodies in anticipation of the launch of their second Android phone, the MyTouch. Us old G1 users can also take advantage of the slew of new apps, including T-Mobile’s Visual Voicemail. It’s pretty cool, and something that we’ve been waiting for a quite some time. IPhone users have had visual voicemail from long ago (my buddy Mikey replied to my tweet by saying “@barron Welcome to iPhone 2007! 
(Happy for you, though!)”. Fair enough. Android still has a way to go, but it’s definitely picking up steam.
The app itself is pretty straightforward. You just launch it from the icon, then your inbox opens up and you can see all your voicemails in a list, with phone #, time called, duration, and Name and Icon of the person if you have that listed in your Contacts. From there, just select a message, and you get the message screen where you can listen to the message. You can also delete it from here or call back the person. There’s a handy button to switch over to speaker phone as well. Other features that can be accessed via the Menu button are Add to Contacts, or Reply via phone or Text Message. All in all, it’s a really nice feature to have, and it’s free! All you have to do is call T-mobile and tell them to activate it. It won’t cost anything, and you can stay on the plan you are on, without losing any of the features you already enjoy.
It’s so nice that new features are added to the phone with pretty good frequency. The fact that Google can update core functionality to their phone via Market updates is also really neat. Seems like a quick and easy way to deploy cool stuff to Android users.
You can get the T-Mobile Visual Voicemail app from the Android Market on your phone, from the T-Mobile AppPack bundle, or you can visit Cyrket and point your camera at the QR Code (use the free app “Barcode Scanner”.