Picture this - you wake up tomorrow morning, turn on your Mango powered Windows Phone (since this is entirely hypothetical), and what do you see? The voicemail alert. You open up the built-in voicemail manager and out-pops Chuck Norris. He's round-kicking his phone and informing you to give him a ring back at some point to discuss gardening tips.
According to a relatively reliable leaker in a DM to us, this is to be a reality in the next major update. To add to this, a tweet was published shortly after the visual voicemail leak which announced that with the addition of Skype and Live Messenger on the Windows Phone platform, when sending a text to a contact who is currently online on either service, the text will be sent via that available channel of communication.
Too good to be true or just logical next step for Microsoft? Perhaps we'll find out on May 24th, won't we?
Source: WP8 Twitter
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Logical step, but a much needed one. Visual voicemail is one of the greatest features of smartphones. I just hope they don't have to pay out the #%^ to Klausner Technology Inc. like many others have had to.
This is the one major feature I miss when I swapped from an iPhone to my Quantum. If this is true I will be a very happy person.And if this is true, what will Apple have that Mango won't? Only thing I can think of is a front facing camera, but that could also be announced on the 24th.
maybe they'll buy Klausner Technology Inc. for $8b
adding skype to the people hub and facebook chat would be huge!
Would not be surprised at all seeing as the hooks are already present in the registry.