VV is random-access voicemail with a visual interface that presents a list of messages for playback in a nonlinear fashion, rather than a traditional sequential listening required using voicemail, and may include a transcript of each message.
In 2007, Apple's iPhone was the first cell phone promoting this feature. Read more about the Apple iPhone introduction of Visual Voicemail here: http://www.dialogic.com/den/developers/b/developers-blog/archive/2007/07/02/iphone-and-visual-voicemail.aspx
