Hurrah! I got an invitation to sign up for Google Voice. I immediately registered and got a local (San Jose) number. I fiddled with the application for some time and it has lot of cool features. I haven't tried all of them yet, but few. 1. Voicemail - Nice voicemail feature with the transcript. Notifications sent as email and SMS to your mobile. Transcript was mediocre given my accent. Perhaps, I was spoke too fast. But the cool thing, is you can "read" the voicemail and helps you if you are in "boring" meetings (which happens very often in today's corporate world), but couldn't really call your voice mailbox and check it. :-)
2. Incoming call - rings "all" your phones depending on the setting. This is quite handy if you are running out of your mobile phone minutes. You can pick up the call on your home or office phone.
Google Voice is still in beta and hope it would get better and better. Boy! those folks in Google are really innovating. Go Google!
Oh! wait, did I mention that you can place calls within US for FREE using Google Voice? Whatz your experience with it?
2 comments:
Google voice is cool. The free US calls work well for me. But I am not a heavy user of GV. You can sign up for gizmo5, use voip ph and have it linked to GV. Check it out when you get the chance...
GV is way cool. Tough I have to say that this was not Google's original innovation. They bought the company called Grandcentral and modified with more interesting features. I have been using GV when they were Grandcentral and it worked pretty good. Combined with iPhone app (now got removed by Apple) this makes a killer feature to have.
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