YouMail for BlackBerry updated to v2.5.17 – New Features!

by Jon Destouche

21 September 2011 No Comment

YouMail has been a long time favorite app of mine. Visual Voicemail is becoming even more popular, with the ability to see your voicemail, and choose which ones you want to listen to, as well as also visually seeing your voicemail instead of having to listen to it. YouMail has definitely been a leader in this field. You can find YouMail on just about any platform but this latest update for BlackBerry users is something that will catch the attention of current users as well as potential new users.

YouMail released a statement on their Blog about the new release and its new features which include:

Visual caller id: Now you’ll really know who your callers are – even when they’re not in your address book! You’ll see a picture, name, city and state, and number for almost every call!
Contact uploads: Now you can upload your contacts, link them to Facebook, and get even better Caller ID and smarter greetings. To upload contacts, hit Menu, Settings, and Upload Contacts. To connect to Facebook, hit Menu, Settings, Account, and Connect to Facebook.
Faster playing: You can now hit the “space bar” to play a message- no more scrolling to the play button

With these new features everyone should jump on board with YouMail. Oh and a little disclaimer this update is only for BlackBerry users running OS 5.0 and higher.

I personal have used YouMail service for quite sometime and I really like how voice mails can be emailed to you in an MP3 format so you can save them if you need to for later use, and it is in a format that can be played on just about any device. Alerts and notifications to let you know if you missed a call (even if you have had no reception). The ability to transcribe your voice mails for you (the voice mails are read back to you) which is included in their premium services, and so many different ways to customize your voicemail greetings, and the ability to set custom groups where specific people get one greeting, and others will hear another. The list goes on with YouMail’s services.

You can check the app out here for FREE. However if you want to check out the premium services plans start as low as $1.99/month.