One Ring to Rule Them All: Google Voice
One Ring
Well, here’s google’s attempt to gain another foothold in conquering the world. They have one ring to rule them all. Grand Central users have now been upgraded to Google voice. Invites are not available yet, but the features are quite rich… You have voicemail, SMS, ability to transcribe voice mail to text, 1.00 of free credit. They have this feature called ListenIn which allows you to listen to voicemail being recorded. You can either pick up or just let the call be recorded… similar to screening answering machine.
I’ve connected my wife’s cell, my cell, and my office number to the number google gave me, so that whenever someone calls that number, all our phones will ring. You can also set it up so that only some ring or have the person directly sent to voicemail.
I’ve also included a link on Geezlouies.net so that you can call me. No international calls yet.
Under your contact information, you can group your peoples into various groups and then have different greetings for each group. So basically you can use this for both business, pleasure, whatever… and conceivably have a different greeting for whatever you want.
Another use that Grand Central allowed was forwarding to a Gizmo number (another free internet phone service). Google Voice has incorporated that as well.
It looks like your standard Google Application. Simple. Smooth. We’ll see how far it goes.
For more infomation on Google Voice, you can go to their online help.
Article in CNet talks about Google Voice.
Venturebeat.com has this article-Google Voice: a killer phone application – has a list of other services…
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