Google Voice SMS (free?)

[dbutters]

How much slower is texting via google voice rather than the regular verizon texting? Is it worth cancelling your texting plan?

I found the delay in receiving GV txts unacceptably slow. It took 15 minutes for me to get a txt once, so I went back to VZ's messaging.

The shortest notification time on GV is 5 minutes, so that might be more acceptable. It would be nice if it had push notification like the gmail app.

--edit: Ask and ye shall receive - http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=36ee0d7f551343de&hl=en

 

[mostawesomestusername]

Actually, I wrote about how this thread helped me out. turns out after I unchecked the box, nothing changed and I am still getting sms' in teh GV app as well as my phone's inbox (from the GV number). Is there anything else I am supposed to do or am I doing something wrong?

 

[gsDroid]

Sign in to your Voice account on a computer at google.com/voice. Go to Settings > Voice settings. Choose the Voicemail & Text tab. Uncheck everything and you should stop getting additional sms messages in your phone inbox and stop getting e-mails forwarded with the sms message.

 

[takeshi]

SMS forwarding is actually under the Phones tab. Hit the Edit button for the phone and uncheck "Receive text messages on this phone".

"Text forwarding" under the Voicemail & Text tab is for forwarding text messages to email and the other checkboxes are just for voicemail notifications, not text messages.