Most likely there will be no extra charge for visual voicemail. It is not the same as the visual voicemail that VZW provides on other phones.
I guess we'll find out in about a week!
Yeah from my understanding the voicemail is all on your phone so VZW doesn't incur any costs which is most likely why it will be free. Same thing on AT&T. Visual VM with other phones cost an additional amount because not only does AT&T have to provision your account they also have to house it like regular Voicemail. The carriers don't incur the same charges with iPhone voicemail.
Ah.. I didn't know that. Being it was an iPhone only (meaning not iPod touch) feature, I never really looked into it. Does it also transcribe like Google Voice or Youmail?
No it does not translate. I'll be going with Google Voice anyway. That's where I've been getting my mail for the last year and want all my mail to go there. And I love the translation.
The man said tranSCRIBE, not transLATE. i.e. does it convert the voicemail into texts? From what I've seen no.
As for Verizon charging you, I'm all but assured they won't. I just watched a video on how to use it and if you watch it you will see that it would be kind of hard to charge for that feature. It is just a tab in the phone menu. You press it and it displays your voicemail. I HIGHLY doubt that you'd press that tab and the next thing you'd see is "PLEASE PAY US TO USE THIS PART OF YOUR PHONE!"
Yes you're right. I typed the incorrect thing. Sue me
Oh it's much worse than that. If flat out humiliated you in the eyes of us high-class Internet folks. How will you ever continue? xD