Visual Voice Mail  

When I had blackberry 9700, it was part of free service from t-mobile. When I changed the phone & looked into "youmail" service, it said something about sending the voicemail via email. I have Sony Ericsson TM717. It's not what you'd consider smart phone like droid or blackberry but it does come with "push email" capability. I was wondering if "youmail" or services like it would work with my phone since my phone can get emails.

"Youmail" or services like it utilizes 3rd party email account to access voicemail & emails, not through built-in or dedicated server like blackberries. What I was wondering is if my phone has capability of getting "push emails", then will those servies work with my phone & if there was any other services like that other than "Youmail".

Well, if you look at the site for "youmail", it offers to regular land-line phones. It said something about emails. Basically it implies if your phone can access emails or can receive emails on your phone, it can be used. Smart phone isn't the only phones that can receive emails. Basically, what seperates smart phones from regular non-smart phones is that the speed & the full internet access instead of dumb-down version of the website. Also the amount of the apps that are avaliable for them. From what it sounds like, there are companies out there that can forward the voicemails as an "audio files" & send them to your phone. As long as the phone has mp3 capability, or similiar software, it can access the audio file, or in this case, voice mail. Just can't seem to find it.