January 2011
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
15h 36m
English
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Visual Voicemail
The Droid X has built into it all the usual voicemail capabilities you’d expect. You know the drill: Dial in to your voicemail, enter a password, and listen to voice messages. To dial in to voicemail on the Droid X, tap the Voicemail icon on the Home screen, and you’re ready to go.
Looking for something niftier? The Droid X has it—for a price, that is. For $2.99 a month you can use visual voicemail, which lets you see all your voicemails in a simple, chronological list, listen to them in any order you want, delete them, and otherwise manage them. For example, if you’ve got 17 messages, and you want to listen to number 17, you don’t need to listen to the other 16 first. Just tap message 17.
Setting Up Visual Voicemail
You can turn on Visual Voicemail either directly from the Droid X itself or from your Verizon Wireless account on the Web. If you do it on the Web, log into your account, click Change Features, and then turn on the Visual Voice Mail checkbox. Click Continue.
To save yourself a trip to the Web, on the Droid X’s Home screen or Application Tray, tap the Voicemail app, and then tap the “Subscribe to Visual Voice Mail” button. After reading through the incomprehensible license agreement gobbledygook, tap Accept.
The next screen tells you that your voicemail inbox isn’t yet set up and asks if you want to go ahead. Tap OK. You get one more screen telling you that you’ll be charged $2.99 per month; tap Subscribe. And then, yes, you’re faced with yet more license ...
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