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Google Voice with your existing Mobile Or Landline number

Google Voice with your existing Mobile Or Landline number

You might have remember my last post about Google Voice. They have changed the way one can make and receive calls in America And Canada. Now the latest from Google Voice according to their blog is choosing a Google voice number with your existing mobile or landlines number.

Now what’s this?

It’s simple. You always don’t want to change your number. And if you have existing or new Google Voice number, you don’t need to change your number for Google Voice sage. You can choose to keep your number and still get Google’s upgraded voicemail features. If you are new to Google Voice you need an Invitation from Friend or request yourself. Once you are registered You can choose full new number from them for voicemail, SMS, selective call forwarding, making calls etc. or with your existing number go through Google’s forwarding setup for your cellphone. Simple isn’t it.

Your voice mail can be reached to you either in form of SMS, Email or on your voice webpage, or it can be playable in Gmail.

See this video for more understanding..

This new feature will help you with the transition to your new number, as you can now forward unanswered calls to your mobile phone to your Google Voice account. Possibilities will many if you connect Google voice number with your existing mobile number. Imagine and enjoy.

Related Link:
Google Voice Blog: Google Voice with your existing number [Google Voice Blog]

Google Voice – Free Calls To Alaska And Hawaii

Google Voice – Free Calls To Alaska And Hawaii

Google Voice is of the leaders in Voip calling Industry and was trying many things since its been launched. Firstly it was launched only for USA people, and only they can make and receive free calls through it. But now according to Google voice blog, Google voice now offers free calls to all his 50 states including Alaska and Hawaii. You can get this free calls through your inbox online, from their mobile applications, or by just dialing your Google Voice number from one of your regular phones and selecting option 2 to place a call. You can also forward your calls through this. Let me mention that Google voice service is currently works only in the United States and on invitation only. If you use Google voice you will soon see a link “Invite a friend” on the left-hand side of your inbox.

You can also make free voip calls in the Canada continental will Google Voice.

The idea of Google’s service is simply to offer a single phone number that redirects to all we have, whether mobile, fixed, private, work, … but offering additional services like storing our calls and transcribing them into our Gmail mailbox. You can sms, do call screening, block calls, do conference calling, can do call record – Record calls and store them online, call switch etc with this service.

Certainly though we still see where will this service will go, but imagine a telephony service 100% free and can store up our calls in audio and transcribed to text (need to see the legal implications of privacy and record everything). And to finish the job a Google stronger with more information about each of us to insert advertising and a little more concentrated. It’s a little afraid of the truth.

All and all Google Voice will be a good Voice platform for the worldwide calling if it will extend to other countries.

Google Voice + GrandCentral Voip Tie Up = Great Voip Calls

Google Voice + GrandCentral Voip Tie Up = Great Voip Calls

Grandcentral was rechristened google.com/voice a few months back from now. Today, there are thousands of Americans who are using a great VOIP call forwarding and Phone Service that is provided by the new player, Google Voice.

Google Voice maintained a low profile for a while. It was away from any kind of news and so the people thought that the company would shy away from the VOIP Phone Service market. But people were highly mistaken as the Google Voice Team was actually busy getting over 1 million phone numbers reserved for Google Voice users. All numbers reserved at this stage will be geographic and reserves with Level 3.

Most of you are aware that Google Voice is the old Grancentral. It enables you to use a single phone number for multiple phone numbers by porting through the platform of the company. When you call on any particular number, it rings back to you. Google Voice had added a lot of interesting features to the already existing list of features. The new features include call transfer, call conferencing, call routing, and call switching. Google Voice had kept the service of free calls to USA alive with the new brand name.

Some strong rumors are doing rounds in the VOIP community that Google Voice might open for everyone in the month of June. And that may be the reason for Google Voice to buy these 1 million numbers. The company might have done it as a part of its launch preparations. Whatever may be the case, let us hope that everyone is able to use the fantastic VOIP services provided by Google Voice. The services from Google Voice are expected to help VOIP Guide users in a big way. In addition to various other features, routing the calls and hacking into SIP via Google Voice would be made extremely easy. There are strong chances that Google Voice may also adopt a Paid model. The Paid model will be used for the heavy users or the corporate customers.

If you have been using the services provided by Google Voice, please let us know your feedback.

Some Related Articles:

http://lifehacker.com/5304800/google-voice-is-cool-but-do-you-need-it
http://lifehacker.com/5311254/how-to-ease-your-transition-to-google-voice

GrandCentral Voip Is Now Google Voice

GrandCentral Voip Is Now Google Voice

GrandCentral, a phone management service which was first launched in 2006 and was
acquired by Google in year 2007 hasn’t been in the news much lately.

Google has finally rebranded GrandCentral into Google Voice after a very long time. GrandCentral is a powerful VOIP integration service . It is a service integrating flexible Internet-based voice calling and routing features, voice mail, text messaging and other applications.

This move of Rebranding GrandCentral into Google Voice would really open up multiple avenues for google in the coming years mainly in the integration space. It would rather be interesting to see if they would integrate Google Talk into Google voice or they would add Google voice to Google talk.

Unlike other VoIP and Internet-based voice applications, Google Voice is mainly based on a centralized voice calling and messaging system which enables users to use any phone to call into a system that allows them to initiate other calls and functions. The offering is being seen as a challenge to Skype, though it also ups the competitive ante for telcos and other voice service providers that have been exploring new ways to offer voice or to integrate it with other applications.

Below listed are few of the salient features of Google Voice.

Google number – One number for all your calls and SMS

It has a distinguishing feature of announcing and screening callers
It has the feature of Listening before taking a call
It Keeps unwanted callers at bay
It sends, receives, and stores SMS
It Calls US numbers for free
It Answer on any of your phones and add phones and decide which ring

Google voicemail – Voicemail as easy as email, with transcripts

It reads what your voicemail says
It checks online or from your phone
It Receives voicemails via email or SMS and Forwards or downloads voicemails

Voice features – More cool things you can do with Google Voice

Enables to Join people into a single call
It Records calls and store them online
It helps to view your inbox from your mobile and check directory assistance
It sets preferences by group

One of the important feature of Google Voice is obviously allowing totally free calls any USA number including mobile.

Also the quality of the calls doesn’t change with Google Voice. Getting your calls through Google Voice won’t affect call quality or reception, since you’ll still be taking calls from your existing phones.

Currently at this stage, Google voice is restricted to existing GrandCentral users only. However, if they open up the doors to this existing VOIP service to anyone anywhere in the world , one can leverage the benefit of having one number for call management.