Ok, so for other new folks that might have wound up with the Bold and are frustrated: according to handago's website bbalerts is NOT compatible with this Bold 9650. According to the nice Sprint Tech guy (and he was nice) you can't make voicemail alerts be treated like SMS. The work around that is working for me is something called youmail. Youmail has popped up in some of the searches I've done. I thought it was because you could customize a lot of things that folks used it. But it will send an email with your voicemail as a mp3 or wav attached. You can also have it alert you as a SMS. Both of those things will alert on the Bold. So I think I'm going to keep the Bold, it is a very nice phone in a lot of ways, but my Mom & Aunts in their 80s are not going to learn to send text messages when they can't reach me by phone ;)
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