Google Voice
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I might have a invite or two. Basically, what I use google voice for is:
1) visual voice mail that I can access on my computer or phone
2) If I put a for sale (or something public) up, I use my google voice number that way if I get someone spamming me or anything, i can block them.
3) You can link your google voice number to ring multiple phones. So if someone calls your voice number, it can ring your cell and house number, stuff like that.
4) you can send text messages on your computer using your voice number.
I dont use #3, but thats a pretty good overview of what it does.
1) visual voice mail that I can access on my computer or phone
2) If I put a for sale (or something public) up, I use my google voice number that way if I get someone spamming me or anything, i can block them.
3) You can link your google voice number to ring multiple phones. So if someone calls your voice number, it can ring your cell and house number, stuff like that.
4) you can send text messages on your computer using your voice number.
I dont use #3, but thats a pretty good overview of what it does.
#22
I use google voice a lot for business.
Three main uses:
1. voicemail on my droid. Verizon allows you to have like 5 voicemails before you have to start deleting them. Google=unlimited.
2. voice to text. Reading a voicemail takes about 1/10 the time that listening to someone drone on and on. Also, google voice does a better job figuring out what the Indian guys I work with our saying than I do!
3. It's integrated with contacts, so dialing from PC is very fast.
4. when someone calls my google number, it rings in my office, my cell, and my home office at once.
Three main uses:
1. voicemail on my droid. Verizon allows you to have like 5 voicemails before you have to start deleting them. Google=unlimited.
2. voice to text. Reading a voicemail takes about 1/10 the time that listening to someone drone on and on. Also, google voice does a better job figuring out what the Indian guys I work with our saying than I do!
3. It's integrated with contacts, so dialing from PC is very fast.
4. when someone calls my google number, it rings in my office, my cell, and my home office at once.
#23
Makes sense that this would kick *** with the Droid. The more I use this phone the happier I am with it. Integration is great, and this is from someone who's been a diehard Mac user for nearly a decade.
Glad someone resurrected this. If you have an invite PM me and I'll shoot you my gmail addy. Thanks.
Glad someone resurrected this. If you have an invite PM me and I'll shoot you my gmail addy. Thanks.
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Google bought Gizmo5 which had some amazing integration with Google Voice for inbound calls. I'm more then certain that Google is going to release SIP/VoIP calling shortly!
#28
Woot, I got an invite today. Dunno if it was from someone here (thanks, if it was), or my request to google finally went thruogh, but now I'm trying to decide...
...should I keep my mobile number, or go ahead and sign up for whole shebang with new google-supplied phone number?
From what I'm reading, I don't see any real disadvantage to signing up for a new number, other than having to notify all my contacts that my number has changed.
Anyone gone through this process and have some advice?
...should I keep my mobile number, or go ahead and sign up for whole shebang with new google-supplied phone number?
From what I'm reading, I don't see any real disadvantage to signing up for a new number, other than having to notify all my contacts that my number has changed.
Anyone gone through this process and have some advice?
#29
If you keep your current number, you loose many of the nicer features:
http://www.google.com/support/voice/...?answer=164819
If you're using any iPhone, you can use prowl to send push messages for text.
http://googlevoice.ub3rk1tten.com/voicegrowl/
http://www.google.com/support/voice/...?answer=164819
If you're using any iPhone, you can use prowl to send push messages for text.
http://googlevoice.ub3rk1tten.com/voicegrowl/
Last edited by joshwastaken; 06-16-2010 at 04:55 PM. Reason: added iphone info
#37
I used this for a while back in beta and it was useless. All it did was make it more complicated for people to call me and for me to check my voicemail.
Here's the idea:
"With google voice you can use the phone you have now but with another number and voicemail box to make things completely confusing!"
Here's the idea:
"With google voice you can use the phone you have now but with another number and voicemail box to make things completely confusing!"
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If I had more than one phone number, I would use it so it would ring more than one phone at a time, but having only one phone really sort of makes google voice pretty useless. I have it, and I used to use it on my blackberry, but I don't any more. I might also consider using it if it had good iphone integration like I have heard it does on the Droid, but it doesn't.
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I used this for a while back in beta and it was useless. All it did was make it more complicated for people to call me and for me to check my voicemail.
Here's the idea:
"With google voice you can use the phone you have now but with another number and voicemail box to make things completely confusing!"
Here's the idea:
"With google voice you can use the phone you have now but with another number and voicemail box to make things completely confusing!"
See above. the integration is so good the GV app has a place in the settings where it has your number in case you forget.
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