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Google Voice on Android Is Now Much, Much Prettier

The Google Voice app for Android got a significant update today, unveiling a fancy UI facelift for Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich and finally implementing offline SMS queueing. The offline SMS queueing features means you’ll be able to compose and save messages when you don’t have a mobile connection. Once you emerge from whatever signal-free…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Google Voice for iOS Opens the Party Line with Group Texts

Group texts can be liberating and educational, as long as it’s done with consenting, trustworthy partners. So rejoice, iOS Google Voice users. With today’s update, you can finally be an SMS swinger. Other app improvements include integration with Sprint iPhones, an expanded text entry field, and one-touch copy/paste in the dialpad. They’re welcome upgrades to…

Tech News Brian Barrett

You Can Make Free Calls on Gmail Through 2012

Google just announced an extension to free domestic calls using Gmail and the Google Voice web app. I’m currently calling every phone in America. So yeah, I’m pretty excited about the news. The free domestic calls are for the United States and Canada only. Sorry Mexico. North American users can continue to make free calls…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Google Voice for Android Adds Group Messaging, Offline Voicemail, and Other Goodies

If you use Google Voice for Android you got yourself a pretty sweet little update today that adds offline voicemail, group recipients for text messages as well as “improved” text message notifications. This update is actually a big deal that adds long-overdue features to Google Voice for Android. If you’ve ever tried to send a…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

How To Make Your Apartment Buzzer Ring Every Phone in Your Home

You ditched your landline years ago. Smart! Because the one thing it was good at—buzzing people into your building—can be done better with your smartphone anyway. Here’s how to have that buzzer ring any phone you want. First, you’ll need a Google Voice account. If you already have one, you’re halfway there. If you don’t…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

MMS Almost Works on Google Voice

The lack of MMS support causes much gnashing of teeth for those of us who use Google Voice extensively. Now, Google has started the process of addressing this shortcoming…for Sprint Android users. Any MMS message sent by a Sprint user can be received to a Google Voice inbox, or email inbox. No doubt this is…

Tech News Adrian Covert

BlackBerries, Fast Fives, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. You Can Suck Up Your Voicemails as a Zip File Now Google Voice is now a part…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Google Voice Gets Full Honeycomb Support

Engadget reports that Google just planted the latest version of Google Voice into the Android Market, fully optimized to work with Honeycomb. Took them bloody long enough, no? [Engadget]

Tech News Kwame Opam

Google Spam Filtering Now Works for Your Phone

Google spam filters have been a godsend to my inbox, eliminating the 500 or so unwanted emails I receive per day before they ever sully my inbox. Now, Google’s doing the same to telemarketers. The new “Report Spam” button in Google Voice does exactly what the “Report Spam” button does in Gmail— it keeps the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Like All Their Other Services, Google Voice Is Only Around to Collect Our Data

When Google launched their Voice service a couple of years ago, people made a big deal about what their move into the telecom world meant. In a print-only interview with New Scientist Peter Norvig, Google’s head of research, said the main reason they launched the service was so they could better learn how to transcribe…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Sprint Is Basically the Official Google Carrier With Full, Awesome Google Voice Integration

This is how Google Voice would work, in an ideal world: Sprint’s totally integrating Google Voice with their network. What’s that mean? It means you can use your existing Sprint number with Google Voice, without porting it to Google first. Porting your number to Google is normally a mildly complicated affair, involving multiple phone numbers…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

gHome Replaces Your Landline with Google Voice for Only $5 a Month

Replacing your landline with Google Voice is light years mo’ better than paying monthly dues to a telco, we already know that. But there’s always been a certain tradeoff in whether you’re paying too much money or doing too much work for a Google Voice landline. gHome is a $5/month service (cheap!) that is easy…

Tech News Casey Chan

Should I Port My Number to Google Voice?

The one last barrier for you using Google Voice full time—number porting—just got knocked down. But should you use Google Voice? Almost certainly yes. To quickly summarize, Google Voice is like a layer inbetween your regular cellphone/landline and the outside world. It can block calls, route calls on a schedule, record calls, transcribe voicemails, ring…

Tech News Jason Chen

You Can Now Port Your Own Number to Google Voice (Updated)

Yes-oh-yes-oh-yes! You can now finally port your own mobile phone number over to Google Voice. Only catches are that you’ll have to pay $20 and have to deal with potential early termination fees being assessed by your current carrier. Updated. Definitely worth the trouble for those who have been itching to use their current mobile…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Use These 8 Apps To Ditch Your Expensive Texting Plan

With bloated fees for everything on your cell phone carrier, it’s easy to get frustrated when you or someone on your family plan goes over your text message limit. To combat this, app developers have taken advantage of mobile broadband access to bring free texting to your smartphone. And they’re not-surprisingly some of the most…

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Google Voice is Now Available For iPad and iPod Touch

Following Google Voice’s arrival on the iPhone, it seems Touch and iPad owners can now get in on the action—for free. What’s Google Voice? Check out our video of the app working on the iPhone. [iTunes via TechCrunch] https://gizmodo.com/google-voice-for-iphone-its-here-5691490

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Google Voice. For iPhone. It’s here.

Google’s official Google Voice app is here. For the iPhone. Hot. Damn. And guess what? It’s free. Updated. It has what you think an official Google Voice app has: push notifications for new texts and voicemails, something prior GV apps couldn’t quite handle without a third-party workaround. Get it now! Will update the post in…

Tech News Jason Chen

Boxcar 4.0 Is the Indispensable iPhone Notifications App

Currently, Boxcar is a most excellent app for that straightforwardly pushes notifications from services like Twitter and Facebook to the iPhone. Boxcar 4.0 is going to make your iPhone feel like it has a million, constantly connected tentacles. Boxcar 4.0 not only adds support for a ton more services—Google Voice, Buzz and others—the app’s been…

Social Media Matt Buchanan

Apple May Have Quietly Approved The Official Google Voice iPhone App Already?

We’ve seen several third-party Google Voice iPhone apps make their way into the App Store, but we’ll be seeing Google’s official version soon too according to a report by TechCrunch. Apparently Apple may have even approved the app already: https://lifehacker.com/apple-finally-approved-a-native-google-voice-iphone-app-5641271 [TechCrunch has] gotten word that the official Google Voice application is on its way to…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

The GV Mobile+ iPhone App Is Free For The Next Few Hours

GV Mobile+, one of the third-party Google Voice apps available for the iPhone, is free right now. This deal will only last until about 1:00am EST according to the app’s developer, so hurry up and save yourself three bucks. [iTunes] Update 1: Seems that the deal’s over, folks. Apparently the developer’s intent was for only…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Google Voice on Android Is Now Much, Much Prettier

Google Voice for iOS Opens the Party Line with Group Texts

You Can Make Free Calls on Gmail Through 2012

Google Voice for Android Adds Group Messaging, Offline Voicemail, and Other Goodies

How To Make Your Apartment Buzzer Ring Every Phone in Your Home

MMS Almost Works on Google Voice

BlackBerries, Fast Fives, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

Google Voice Gets Full Honeycomb Support

Google Spam Filtering Now Works for Your Phone

Like All Their Other Services, Google Voice Is Only Around to Collect Our Data

Sprint Is Basically the Official Google Carrier With Full, Awesome Google Voice Integration

gHome Replaces Your Landline with Google Voice for Only $5 a Month

Should I Port My Number to Google Voice?

You Can Now Port Your Own Number to Google Voice (Updated)

Use These 8 Apps To Ditch Your Expensive Texting Plan

Google Voice is Now Available For iPad and iPod Touch

Google Voice. For iPhone. It’s here.

Boxcar 4.0 Is the Indispensable iPhone Notifications App

Apple May Have Quietly Approved The Official Google Voice iPhone App Already?

The GV Mobile+ iPhone App Is Free For The Next Few Hours

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