Google Voice
Google Voice users have been waiting months for the service to go live. The free service,
announced in March, 2009 lets users unify their phone numbers, allowing them to have a
single number through Google Voice that rings a call through to all their phones.
People who have been using Google Voice for a few months, say that it's completely changed
the way they use voicemail and communicate in general.
Google Voice has a number of unique features including call transfer between a user's
devices, multi-party conferencing, conversion of voice calls to text messages, cut-rate
international calling, and call transcription.
Google also has integrated the Voice service with Gmail contact lists.
But the gem is the fact that a user can have one phone number people can dial to reach them
regardless of where they are located, either home or mobile. Google Voice uses VoIP to link
collections of phone numbers.
Google Voice is a product of Google's March 2007 acquisition of GrandCentral. TechCrunch
reported that Google would add number portability later this year to Google Voice, which
would let users keep one of their existing phone numbers as their Google Voice number. For
example, users could make their cell phone number their Google Voice number.
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Google Voice users have been waiting months for the service to go live. The free service,
announced in March, 2009 lets users unify their phone numbers, allowing them to have a
single number through Google Voice that rings a call through to all their phones.
People who have been using Google Voice for a few months, say that it's completely changed
the way they use voicemail and communicate in general.
Google Voice has a number of unique features including call transfer between a user's
devices, multi-party conferencing, conversion of voice calls to text messages, cut-rate
international calling, and call transcription.
Google also has integrated the Voice service with Gmail contact lists.
But the gem is the fact that a user can have one phone number people can dial to reach them
regardless of where they are located, either home or mobile. Google Voice uses VoIP to link
collections of phone numbers.
Google Voice is a product of Google's March 2007 acquisition of GrandCentral. TechCrunch
reported that Google would add number portability later this year to Google Voice, which
would let users keep one of their existing phone numbers as their Google Voice number. For
example, users could make their cell phone number their Google Voice number.
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