Yeah I got sprint2home added and FF1250 converted back to FF500 in one fell swoop, but I was still having to watch my minutes far too much. Even using MagiCall to automate the whole process it was still a pain. Plus long distance roaming is > *

10/28/2009 4:41:09 PM

ribbit mobile is a competitor w00t!

Reserve an account: https://www.ribbit.com/reserve.php?SSL=true

11/3/2009 6:05:38 PM

For some reason Google Voice is no longer forwarding sms/phone calls to my phone anymore. Has anyone else had this problem..

12/30/2009 4:20:55 PM

i'm having problems too - my apartment complex has my goggle voice number but when ppl use the front door to dial me i never get it - always rings to voicemail and never makes it to my phone

12/30/2009 9:39:43 PM

I too have been having issues with google voice as of late. SMS' I send never appear to reach their destination anymore.

12/30/2009 9:46:11 PM

Yeah, I wonder what the deal is. Do you guys have AT&T?

1/1/2010 9:46:15 PM

got ribbit!

1/2/2010 7:39:26 PM

Is anyone using GV Mobile on their iPhones?

Just curious about something, if I use GV Mobile to dial a number, the phone will show an incoming call from my google voice phone number, when I answer, I am connected to my dialed call.

The question is: if I add my google voice number to my AT&T a-list, will AT&T not charge against my anytime minutes?

1/24/2010 7:54:17 PM

Before the A-list got on Att I believe the folks with My Circle wondered the same thing. I think the carriers sniffed it out and blocked all the google voice numbers from the free anytime minute list. How I have no idea, but it sounds too good to be true, so most likely it is.

1/24/2010 11:43:28 PM

I'm not sure if the google voice program actually dials your GV number or at least it doesn't on my Droid. It shows up as another number on my bill but I was able to add that to my Friends and Family list and it seems to be working that way. Incoming calls pass through the caller id so I'm not sure if you can get free incoming or not.

1/25/2010 7:38:06 AM

I did some pretty crazy testing on this theory back when GV was first transitioning from grand central. I think I came to the conclusion that I had to lose my CID features and have it only show my GV number, BUT if I was roaming outside of the Sprint network for whatever reason, the call would not be considered Mobile2Home.

1/25/2010 7:52:27 AM

FYI google voice is on the iphone, kinda. If you have the mobile page bookmarked on your home screen it turns into an app. Pretty useful and it finally stops doing the call back to make outgoing calls. All you need to do is click the + on the safari screen from google voice and click add to homepage.

1/26/2010 5:49:39 PM

google voice supports LNP now

1/26/2010 6:44:10 PM

So does that mean I can get my att number ported as my google voice number?

1/26/2010 9:50:57 PM

that would be the definition of LNP.. i think

1/26/2010 9:57:27 PM

how?

1/27/2010 11:54:15 AM

Do any of the GV-like services let you import your phone number yet?

3/23/2010 7:34:33 AM

google voice does

3/23/2010 7:59:30 PM

i re-state

HOW?

3/23/2010 8:20:50 PM

http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115102

?



[Edited on March 23, 2010 at 8:26 PM. Reason : i dunno, i've found ones saying you can take your google # with you but not the othre way around]

3/23/2010 8:24:10 PM

^^No, he's wrong, it's still not available:

Proof: http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115102

Supposedly it was available to limited beta testing users last summer and is coming, but just not available yet.


^And...you beat me to it.

[Edited on March 23, 2010 at 8:26 PM. Reason : ^^]

3/23/2010 8:25:42 PM

anyone have any extra invites? I'd love one

3/26/2010 1:13:24 AM

pm sent

3/26/2010 1:21:48 AM

If anybody has Google Voice invites, I would reeeeallly appreciate one; trying to get a boat detailing business off the ground for this summer...

4/4/2010 10:07:07 PM

http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html

Quote :

"Use Google Voice with your existing number and get: Google voicemail: voicemail like email Voicemail transcription: read what your voicemail says Custom greetings: vary voicemail greetings by caller International calling: low cost calls to the world Notifications: read voicemail messages via email or SMS Share voicemails: forward, embed, or download voicemails"

4/4/2010 10:13:43 PM

Yeah I requested an invite, I'm just really impatient.

4/4/2010 10:30:32 PM

I've got 2 invites, PM me your email if you need one

4/4/2010 10:32:23 PM

i use the voicemail, as a warning the transcriptions are not designed for people from the south

4/4/2010 11:06:05 PM

Invites gone until they randomly spew out some more


^LOL Definitely not. My mom called one day and said something like "just wondering what're you doing" and GV somehow translated it as "what the hell are you doing"

[Edited on April 5, 2010 at 11:08 AM. Reason : .]

4/5/2010 11:06:57 AM

I've got 2 invites available if anyone else needs one.

4/5/2010 11:38:46 AM

can someone hook me up with an invite?

4/19/2010 6:18:29 AM

Pm me your email. I should have one left..will send when I get to work

4/19/2010 7:12:45 AM

Ive got three if anyone wants them, just pm me your email address.

4/19/2010 11:49:32 AM

so with google voice, if I didn't have service on my cell, but was within wifi and someone called my phone would i get the call via wifi/internets?

5/18/2010 11:21:51 PM

haha via carrier pidgin if you didnt have wifi

5/19/2010 12:26:39 AM

^^Only if you have a VOIP client such as skype installed and running on your phone and have your GV number set up to ring that number.

[Edited on May 19, 2010 at 5:46 AM. Reason : Otherwise they might as well call it google magic instead of google voice.]

5/19/2010 5:45:44 AM

FREE invitations for students or teachers with a .edu email

http://www.google.com/googlevoice/students.html

5/19/2010 6:54:02 AM

If i reply to a text email on my CELLULAR and hit enter it terminates the rest of the message. also <3 generates some random garbage to the receiver. anyone else run into this?

Example :

Yeah that was fun. <3

Would you like to go for a walk?

Reciever gets :

Yeah that was fun. ntld% ; nbtl& (i dont know if the ntld% is exact but its similar )





Its a good way to think youre being ignored hahahaha

6/14/2010 12:44:48 PM

there are a ton of bugs in the systems that translate characters from one carrier's SMS system to another (in that case < to whatever the http lessthan code is). SMS is pretty terrible.

6/14/2010 1:29:03 PM

You can now use Google Voice to make and receive calls directly in Gmail:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/call-phones-from-gmail.html

8/25/2010 3:16:32 PM

so it's basically free VOIP within the US.

[Edited on August 25, 2010 at 8:18 PM. Reason : s]

8/25/2010 8:18:28 PM

What I'm wondering is if you travel abroad and find a wifi hotspot, if you call the US, is it still free? I would assume so since the call is still going through Google's servers and terminating in the US.

8/25/2010 9:05:20 PM

I tried this, voice quality is superb. Would a bluetooth work well with this? I've never used skype but I assume this will work in a similar way and I see there are bluetooths that can answer/hang up skype calls directly from the headset.

My cell service blows at my home and I've been thinking about what service to get for awhile now and this gift just dropped in my lap.

8/25/2010 10:15:52 PM

I have a few questions for you guys. I haven't found straight answers via google.

I have an iphone and use google voice. When I have my GV texts sent to my phone the number that's associated with that person is like random, but consistant with that number. So how is google handling this? Like if I text someone using my GV number, then they text me back, it's not my friends number but some random weird number but always the same for that person. So I just added that number as a second number for that friend. Does anyone know how google uses these numbers?

I just hope Apple allows google to come out with a better GV app. The web app is alright but not good enough for every day use.

oh and:

http://gizmodo.com/5622675/gmail-voice-is-about-future-search-not-free-calls

that's smart.

[Edited on August 26, 2010 at 2:39 PM. Reason : s]

8/26/2010 2:33:51 PM

What do you mean how does Google use those numbers? From what I understand, it's kinda like a unique identifier assigned to that person. If you text it, it gets relayed to that user and appears to be from your GV#.

That link is pretty interesting. Doesn't bother me that they are using that data but I guess some people might freak out.

8/26/2010 2:49:31 PM

i was under the impression apple didnt allow a GV application because they were in bed with AT&T who thinks they can charge an arm and a leg for SMS messages. Same reason why the messaging system on the iphone is crippled.

8/26/2010 3:27:30 PM

Quote :

"it's kinda like a unique identifier assigned to that person. If you text it, it gets relayed to that user and appears to be from your GV#. "

Yeah that's what i was thinking. So google has a set identifier (a phone number) set for every person that gets texted via a GV number (assuming they don't have a GV number already)? So i'm alright assigning that number to that particular friend so when i receive texts from them sent with my GV it shows up as them.

Friends with GV numbers shows up with their GV number obviously.

Quote :

"i was under the impression apple didnt allow a GV application because they were in bed with AT&T who thinks they can charge an arm and a leg for SMS messages. Same reason why the messaging system on the iphone is crippled."

No i read somewhere it wasn't AT&T that wasn't allowing the GV app it was Apple. Apple said they'd review it. It had to do with it dupplicating features of the iPhone. There's already plenty of free SMS apps out there that apple DID approve that use data so I don't know why this one wasn't approved. It's not like it was VOIP.

8/26/2010 3:44:27 PM

Quote :

"I have an iphone and use google voice. When I have my GV texts sent to my phone the number that's associated with that person is like random, but consistant with that number. So how is google handling this? Like if I text someone using my GV number, then they text me back, it's not my friends number but some random weird number but always the same for that person. So I just added that number as a second number for that friend. Does anyone know how google uses these numbers? "

https://www.gvmax.com/ + any IM client with push notifications that supports gchat (i use Beejive). Thank me later.

[Edited on August 26, 2010 at 3:53 PM. Reason : :]

8/26/2010 3:53:06 PM

^What's the point of that when you can just set up push gmail and forward your texts to gmail?

I guess for desktop chat clients and stuff, nm

[Edited on August 26, 2010 at 4:02 PM. Reason : meh]

8/26/2010 4:01:29 PM

Quote :

"https://www.gvmax.com/ + any IM client with push notifications that supports gchat (i use Beejive). Thank me later."

Um i understand what this is but how is it different then what gvoice already does? I use Beejive for chats but why would i want to use it for texts? Google voice already sends my texts to my phone as texts. Why would i change that? In fact i turned off email text notifications and only have the Gvoice texts go to my phone so i don't get two notifications at once.

Quote :

"^What's the point of that when you can just set up push gmail and forward your texts to gmail?"

What's the point of that when you can just set up google voice to send texts to your phone as texts? lol. Why over complicate it?

[Edited on August 26, 2010 at 4:03 PM. Reason : s]

8/26/2010 4:02:27 PM