Verizon Launches Visual Voicemail–On One Phone

Bowing to competitive pressure from AT&T and various third-party services, Verizon has finally added Visual Voicemail to its lineup, although the service is currently limited to just one handset: the mobile-TV-equipped LG Voyager.

Engadget reports that the service will cost an extra $2.99 per month on top of your usual bill, and you’ll be able to store up to 40 messages for 40 days, with an option to create up to 10 greetings and 20 distribution lists as well.

Verizon didn’t take the opportunity to announce “any firm plans for a roll-out to any of the other phones supposedly in line to get the service,” the report said, with it only going so far as to say that additional devices will be getting it in the “coming months.”

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