Comments on: Introducing Google Voice (formerly GrandCentral)

By: mike

mike — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:38:35 +0000

Thanks very much for the reply–and for one that actually answered my question. You don’t know how long I’ve been trying to find someone who could answer this definitively for me. That GV doesn’t charge for incoming calls forwarded to Hawaii numbers is fantastic news. I’m hoping to use my toll-free Toktumi number as a front-end to my GV once I get my invite (hopefully before the NEXT millennium). Hoping too, should that work, there’s not too much of a delay (or distortion) with the double forwarding.

Also, you have a very cool site! Nice work.

By: Ann

Ann — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:02:41 +0000

Luckily incoming calls forwarded to my Hawaii number aren’t charged. Didn’t even realize until last month that Hawaii was considered long distance.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:28:19 +0000

So does Google charge you for incoming calls routed to your Hawaii phone?

By: Ann

Ann — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:24:58 +0000

Hi Justin, thanks for checking out my blog and for your suggestions! (I also remember you from WordCamp, and incidentally, I also missed the after-party.) I post here pretty infrequently so sorry if it’s taken me so long to reply.

Anyway I checked out the receptionist service you mentioned:
http://mobile.ringcentral.com/receptionist/

It looks interesting but I don’t own an iPhone. :p Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person who works in tech who DOESN’T own an iPhone… and I don’t care, either! I am attached to my laptop most of the time and when I’m not, I prefer a good book! I think there are certainly a lot of great, useful services out there, but I personally don’t need all that much beyond a local number forwarder. I don’t think I’ve needed to receive a fax ever! However I will occasionally make use of http://faxzero.com to send one out.

By: justin williams

justin williams — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:03:37 +0000

should be at the wordpres party now but went to bed at 4:40am yesterday and got up at 7:00am (complete with hangover) and just decided no way! two cool phone services: (1st for iphone but i think you can even use it on your desktop) “receptionist” by att assigns you a free unique 800 number and allows you to route it through several of your other phone numbers, in the order you prefer, and ulitmately you decide which voice mail (or its own) it bounces to. if you have an iphone it’s a no-brainer – the first 100 minutes/month are free out of your iphone plan. after that – there is a charge so you need to be careful. the second is another att (no do not work for them!) that lets you aggragate all your email from multiple sources along with fax and voicemail to access from the web. the vmails come in .wav files and show you the number, etc…so you can skip if you want. they also send you an email when you get a new voice mail. damn i do tend to ramble on – ‘pologies again! hope you had fun at the party! jjw

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:06:43 +0000

don’t know if links work here or not, but there is a request up on the google site for this, so people should add their names:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/voice/thread?tid=33737a25346e10fd&hl=en

If links don’t work, them, umm, maybe a search will do on the google voice support site.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:02:49 +0000

I second that. I have a cellphone that is currently blocked from receiving or sending SMS messages. For those of us, or for those who don’t want to fork out the 15 cent sms charge, a forward to IM would be great. If nothing else, at least forward to email with replies being sent back out as SMS messages for a simulated SMS experience (well those of us with data plans anyway (ie. blackberry users)).

By: Ann

Ann — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:16:28 +0000

I bet they’ll be rolling out a mobile app soon at the very least for Android. In the meantime I guess the only way to initiate an SMS right now is through the site, which actually has a mobile version that is fairly usable. I’m also hoping for some kind of API, but if not then what I’d really love to have is the ability to forward SMS messages to IM! It would be REALLY sweet and even make a lot of sense to give users the option of forwarding Google Voice SMS messages to Google Talk… interoperability between the two can only be a good thing for all.

By: Wardell

Wardell — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:36:45 +0000

I just upgraded to, the new service is very cool I love the SMS but now I only wish there was a way to initiate a GoogleVoice SMS from my mobile phone, as you can with voice calls.