Android is finally starting to get built-in visual voicemail. The next version of Android, Android M, will include native visual voicem...
Android is finally starting to get built-in visual voicemail. The next version of Android, Android M, will include native visual voicemail support in the dialer, rather than requiring each carrier to build its own visual voicemail app. But there's a big caveat: it seems as though each carrier still has to add support for Google's visual voicemail service, and it doesn't appear that most of them will just yet.
Visual voicemail has been a long time coming on Android. It's been available on the iPhone since the original model launched in 2007, while Android users have largely had to rely on their individual carrier's app or services like Google Voice. Carriers sometimes charge extra for visual voicemail, which may explain why they'd prefer to get customers using their own app.
