Google Voice

[Owen Densmore]

I just got my invite to google voice, and wondered about the second option: get a new google number that rings all your phones.  

Does anyone have any experience with this?  Recommendations?




    -- Owen



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[Bin Hu]

I tried the Google Number sometime ago. Google Number is just a phone  
number that you can give others so that when people call that number,  
you can answer it by using any other phones you have already have.  
Personally, I don't find this feature very useful. But for people who  
travels a lot, and for those who receive a lot of long distance calls,  
it may save their friends some money, because you can choose an area  
code for your Google Number different from where you live in.

Bin


On Jun 19, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:

> I just got my invite to google voice, and wondered about the second  
> option: get a new google number that rings all your phones.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this?  Recommendations?
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>    -- Owen
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[Chris Feola]

It's pretty brilliant stuff. Don't think of it as a phone service, a la
Skype. Think of it as a manager for all your telephoney. For example, you no
longer have to worry about phone number portability; give out your Google
voice number, and route it wherever you wish. Change carriers? Change
numbers? Doesn't matter. Use it to cover your calls; it will, for example,
go into Do Not Disturb mode or announce callers and let you listen as they
leave a message before you decide to pick up. Even better: it runs voice
mails through voice recognition and emails and/or txts the results to you.
This is as bad as most voice recognition, but surprisingly effective: if you
know who's calling and SOME of what they are saying you generally have a
good idea about what's going on.

Maybe the most fun, though, is that it allows you to handle SMS/TXTing from
your web browser.

Recommended.

cjf

Christopher J. Feola
President, nextPression
Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjfeola

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I just got my invite to google voice, and wondered about the second option:
get a new google number that rings all your phones.  

Does anyone have any experience with this?  Recommendations?



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[Owen Densmore]

So is there any reason NOT to get the google number (second option)?  I.e. Is the second option simply additional features rather than different ones?

One thing I'd like is a european number so that when traveling, european friends can call me cheaply. Hmm .. Better do a bit more research!

    ---- Owen


I am an iPad, resistance is futile!

On Jun 19, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Bin Hu <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I tried the Google Number sometime ago. Google Number is just a phone number that you can give others so that when people call that number, you can answer it by using any other phones you have already have. Personally, I don't find this feature very useful. But for people who travels a lot, and for those who receive a lot of long distance calls, it may save their friends some money, because you can choose an area code for your Google Number different from where you live in.
>
> Bin
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> On Jun 19, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
>
>> I just got my invite to google voice, and wondered about the second option: get a new google number that rings all your phones.
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with this?  Recommendations?
>>
>> <WebKit016.png>
>>
>>   -- Owen
>>
>>
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>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
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