andymellon4
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What is Google Voice?
just info
cause quite frankly I am confused?
just info
cause quite frankly I am confused?
I just got it. You can pick one of two options. 1) Keep your number and basically get free voicemail translated into text and emailed to you with the sound file, or 2) A whole new number where you can give it to people as your primary number and connect all your other numbers to it. That way you have one number which combines many.
Honestly in this day when most people just have a cell # I would think #1is preferred.
Good question.
Your existing number:
-- Gotta figure out how do do that....
- Google voicemail: voicemail like email
- Voicemail transcription: read what your voicemail says
- Custom greetings: vary voicemail greetings by caller
-- I never go overseas for now at least..
- International calling: low cost calls to the world
-- SMS unnecessary since it tells the google voice app tells you.
- Notifications: read voicemail messages via email or SMS
-- If I have a need for it I suppose it's ok.
- Share voicemails: forward, embed, or download voicemails
Google number uses all of the above as well as:
-- I have just my cell and work phone. If I'm not at work then generally I don't want to be bothered. If someone leaves a VM on my work phone I can listen to it on my cell through my service anyway.
- One number: a single phone number that rings all your phones
-- If I was younger maybe SMS would be more used but since I'm in my 40's I find it fairly unnecessary...
- Free SMS: send, receive & store text messages online
-- Might be useful. But at the same time a swipe off when you see them calling does the same thing with minimal effort.
- Block calls: send unwanted callers straight to voicemail
-- I don't see a use for this at least in my life.
- Record calls: record phone calls and store them online
-- That comes with my phone account... and I still don't use it.
- Conference calls: join several people into a single call
-- That's a part of the phone again... it shows the number or name.
- Screen callers: hear who is calling before you pick up
Google Voce also now allows you to upgrade to a google number at any time.. so worth it in my opinion, changing your phone number is not that huge of a deal as people make it out to be, plus it's this number for life, no matter what new phone or carrier I change to later on! (provided Google stays in business longer than I live)