It is actual Visual Voicemail. All of Sprint's Android phones have it and it works very well. It also let's you forward your voicemail to an email if you would like. It does not transcribe the Voicemail and email it like Google Voice or YouMail

 

Awesome! Visual Voicemail was super handy on my Instinct. I've missed it this past year on my Palm Pre.

 

In order to use YouMail or Google Voice as your Voicemail you would loose the ability to use Sprint's because you would be forwarding calls to YouMail or Google. Having said that Google Voice integration is brilliant on Android (it better be haha) and I have heard that the YouMail Android client is very very nice.

 

I have a Hero and use Sprint's Built in Visual Voicemail but I also have a Google Voice number that I use for business so i use the Google Voice app for that (allows me to make and receive calls and SMS as my Google voice number). So essentially I have two phones in one. I could just forward my Sprint line to google voice and just use that Voicemail but I like the separation between personal and business.

 

+1.

 

This is my first phone with Visual VoiceMail, so I'm not exactly sure how it works. I did a test message and it said that I needed to call voice mail to listen to it. After I connected to VM with my password and hung up, it was downloaded. How do you get it to auto-download?

 

It takes a few minutes. If you are on a phone call sometimes it will give you a call voicemail notification or an unable to download because cdma can't do data and voice at the same time but if you ignore it it should just download

 

Oh ok, I thought you would have to set your voicemail to skip your password to allow it to auto-download it.

 

I used visual voicemail but prefer Google Voice. If you add the number (Google #) to your all-inlcuded 3 (can't remember the name), then none of the calls to/from your Google number will count against your anytime minutes. Google will RULE THE EARTH!