Bell has announced the Canadian introduction of Visual Voicemail on select BlackBerry smartphones from Bell Mobility, offering clients voicemail management and synchronization without calling into their voicemail box.

Visual Voicemail allows clients to listen to their voice messages in any order, and once received on their handsets, they can access them at any time, even in areas without wireless coverage, such as airplanes or subways.

The service automatically synchronizes voice messages on a client's BlackBerry smartphone with those in their voice mailbox, so if the client deletes a message on their handset, the message is also deleted from the voice mailbox.

By providing the flexibility to choose the order in which messages are reviewed, Visual Voicemail offers clients an easy and convenient way to manage voicemail according to their individual priorities. Clients can use Visual Voicemail to review, delete and forward messages as well as save important messages directly to the device's internal memory or MicroSD/SDHC memory card. The service also enables clients to respond to voicemail either by text message or a voice call.

Visual Voicemail works on both HSPA and EVDO networks in Canada and worldwide and is now available on the BlackBerry Bold  9700, BlackBerry Tour 9630, BlackBerry Curve 8330, BlackBerry Pearl 8130 and BlackBerry 8830 World Edition smartphones and is expected to be available on additional BlackBerry smartphone models in the future.

Visual Voicemail for BlackBerry smartphones is available for $8 per month.