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YouMail is soon coming to the iPhone as a native app! If you haven’t heard of YouMail yet, it’s a service that promises to replace your voicemail on your iPhone.

Official iPhone carriers already does offer Visual Voicemail, but YouMail introduces a host of other features, including transcription (for a free), email notifications, and it’s accessible from anywhere! I use it myself to set personal greetings for calls.

Of course, the downside is that you won’t get notifications in your Phone app, but once push comes with 3.0 OS, it will hopefully be just as seamless.

It’s out now in the AppStore for free, and here are some of the features:

The free, native iPhone app allows users to do the following:

· ALWAYS know who is calling: Full caller-id information, even for mobile phone numbers that aren’t in a user’s address book

· Read voicemail: Save time by simply reading a message in just a few seconds vs taking the time to play it

· Easily forward a voicemail to anyone, right from the phone: Now your message can become some else’s problem 

· Change greetings on the fly: Now callers know when the person they are calling is in a meeting, on a plane, or just out surfing

· Save voicemail forever, recover accidentally deleted messages, and even organize voicemails right from the phone

In addition, YouMail’s Visual Voicemail Plus app is connected to the full YouMail desktop service which lets users have even more control managing their voicemail in the following ways:

· Choose to pick up voicemail however and wherever it’s most convenient – your phone, your desktop PC, your outlook or web e-mail – even when there’s no data connection to your phone or it’s in the charger

· Choose who can leave you a message – automatically ditch blocked/unknown callers, telemarketers by caller id, or even callers other users have indicated are spammers

· Choose to greet every caller by name with just one click, or have special greetings for every caller that can be personalized and recorded or select from a large set of user-supplied greetings on the YouMail web site