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    How To: Totally Overhaul Your Phones With Google Voice

    Google Voice About to Get More Amazing By Letting You Port Your Number

    Google Voice App Comes to iPhone and iPod Touch Soon

    GrandCentral Sputters Back To Life as Google Voice, Adds Voicemail Transcription, SMS Support

    Hands-On With Newber, The Location-Aware Call Redirector For Your iPhone

    PhoneTag "Hacked" For GrandCentral, Converts Voicemail to E-Mail

    GrandCentral Gives You One Number To Ring All Your Numbers
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    Image of rlee rlee
    12/13/09

    In reply to How To: Totally Overhaul Your Phones With Google Voice
    One other caveat: Your claim "you can forward to as many phones as you want" is not correct, at least for me.

    I had 6 phones on my list -- not all checked at that point -- and clicked "Add another phone". The response was, "Your account already has the maximum number of forwarding phones."

    I had to remove one of the 6 before I was allowed to add one.
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    Image of mullingitover mullingitover
    12/12/09

    In reply to How To: Totally Overhaul Your Phones With Google Voice
    This would be great if Apple weren't cockblocking the Google Voice app on iPhone for purely anticompetitive reasons. That, and the inability to port my number to GV. If it weren't for those things, I'd be able to cancel my voice subscription and have a data plan only, and barely use even that since I'm around wifi for 99% of my life. Even though GV isn't true VoiP, you can hook it up to other VoiP solutions like Skype and have a perfectly awesome voice service that cuts the telecos out of your life without sacrificing any of the features.

    Hurry up with the number porting, google!
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    12/12/09

    @mullingitover: Makes me glad I jailbroke my iPhone and installed the GV app, which is available in the Cydia store.
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    12/12/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: This would be the way, but I don't feel like hacking just to get basic functionality out of my hardware. I'm dropping the iPhone like a bad habit once the Google phone drops.
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    12/13/09

    @mullingitover: You're dropping one when the other drops? Slang vs logic on a tech gadget blog - Robot Santa's head just exploded.
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    Image of Gundem Gundem
    12/12/09

    In reply to How To: Totally Overhaul Your Phones With Google Voice
    awesome article.

    one of the big problems i have encountered with the cell phone app (blackberry):

    You don't automatically receive text messages. You have to constantly refresh (unless i missed something).
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    Image of Jacubious Jacubious
    12/12/09

    In reply to How To: Totally Overhaul Your Phones With Google Voice
    Another awesome service stuck below the 49th parallel. Sigh.
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    Image of ResearchZilla ResearchZilla
    06/15/09

    In reply to Google Voice About to Get More Amazing By Letting You Port Your Number
    i've had google voice for months, and grandcentral before that - it's great, but i will NEVER port my number until google is bulletproof (think gmail outages, now imagine a carrier simulation!)


    also, peeps forget that you lose your mobile2mobile unlimited and many other plan advantages if you were to port.


    for me, the big advantage is a unique number that i give out to ONLY certain folks and in turn configure to auto-ring me at all lines - kind of like a super emergency line - and allows for amazing spam control should the number fall into the wrong hands (can you say, "new once" keeps calling? ;)

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    Image of James Cooper - Chief Geek at TJSL James Cooper - Chief Geek at TJSL
    06/14/09

    In reply to Google Voice About to Get More Amazing By Letting You Port Your Number
    I'd be pretty stoked about this.


    I've had a Google Voice account since Grand Central let me in a couple years ago. I don't hand that number out to many people but do have an old 206 number from living in Seattle that I'd love to port. I waste a bunch of money every month keeping a low end T-Mobile account that forwards the calls to my new city since I'd had that number for 10 years.


    I'd be happy to hand out invites if only GVoice gave us any to hand out!

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    06/14/09

    @James Cooper - Chief Geek at TJSL: You do know you can save a few $$ per month by moving your number to T-Mobile prepaid? $100 a year. I have a home phone number my parents have had since the '70s I would love to put on my Google Voice account.
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    Image of gaius83 gaius83
    06/14/09

    In reply to Google Voice About to Get More Amazing By Letting You Port Your Number
    The Pre dialing screen is so much better looking than the iPhone's.
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    06/14/09

    @gaius83: If you love your Pre so much why don't you marry it?
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    Image of Monty Monty
    06/14/09

    In reply to Google Voice About to Get More Amazing By Letting You Port Your Number
    A couple weeks ago I ride my bike into work, get hit by a seizure, have a fist of gray blob pulled out of my skull - and when I finally come back it is to Google Voice allowing possibly allowing us to port our numbers over? Good news, sure - but, I guess I was hoping for something a little more exciting. Maybe some neon lights or something? Oh well.


    I have Google Voice but have only a couple of friends that know the number, so being able to port over my main number would be a nice trick. I think the larger issue, as Matt nicely raised, is the continued evaporation of these pipes we are all using to communicate. The more they open them, the happier we are - but the less power they have. Google's plan of world domination seems to continue according to their pink fuzzies group hug plan. Good for them.

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    03/12/09

    In reply to GrandCentral Sputters Back To Life as Google Voice, Adds Voicemail Transcription, SMS Support
    Does anyone know of another company/service that will (for free or a reasonable price) allow me to have a local number that I can forward to my cell phone? I just moved into an apartment and don't have a local number for the call box and this service would be perfect.


    I missed the chance to sign up for this back in the day, and and am eagerly waiting for this service to come back online.

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    11/17/08

    In reply to Hands-On With Newber, The Location-Aware Call Redirector For Your iPhone
    I thought Grand Central is still not taking any new customers and will not indefinitely.
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    Image of Jason Chen Jason Chen
    11/17/08

    @brutek: Oh right, forgot about that!
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    11/17/08

    In reply to Hands-On With Newber, The Location-Aware Call Redirector For Your iPhone
    Wow, the people behind Newber totally jacked Canonical's Ubuntu logo. I see a lawsuit on the horizon
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    11/17/08

    @VanniGreene: Yeah...wow. lol, that should be interesting.
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