It’s hardly the top reason well-heeled consumers are clamoring for the iPhone, but its voice mail management is one of the device’s cooler features. Instead of having to listen sequentially to voice mail messages, you can pick and choose which voice mail message to listen to. Now other cell phone makers are going to be able to offer a similar feature and a few other extras the iPhone doesn’t offer.

Acision has announced the launch of Visual Voicemail, a fully integrated, easy-to-use graphical multimedia interface it said dramatically improves the mobile voicemail experience. Developed in partnership with Action Engine, Visual Voicemail is designed to let operators offer simplified and enhanced viewing, playback and management of voicemail. Acision said its solution offers an evolutionary path to other advanced messaging services through the company’s convergence platform.