Google Voice: The Messiah or false Prophet?

Just got my invite and got my number.
Anybody else doing this?

what is it??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Q9MJdT5Ds
plus cheap international calls and so forth.
basically big g is taking on the telecoms

Will it suck less than skype? How do you get and invite?

invite available at https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googlevoiceinvite/
No idea how exclusive this will be

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

212 and 917 prefixes unavailable.
You can search by words to see if anything's available; I wussed out and went with a 201.
In retrospect, I should've found a good seven letter word.
Suggestions if I get another chance?

argh, i'm an idiot; my name has ten letters. why do i think of these things so late in the game.

It has voicemail transcription? If Google started offering a general audio transcription service I would gladly offer them my firstborn.

this seems awesome, but is it worth it if i only have a cell phone?

wait
i should totally get this
i could get a seattle number
and then not have to change my number
and theoretically
my doorbell would work

I requested an invite now I guess I just wait?

i entered the email address and it told me none were valid \(o_O)/

maybe i was kicked out of gmail

i entered three!

you must just suck a lot cause it liked mine just fine

i think i was suggest banned from google

maybe you could go do a google scavenger hunt and they'd let you in?

maybe i shouldn't have chose the email address drmorb✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧

i signed up for this like a year ago and just got my invite the other day and forgot why i was interested in the first place

why do i want this along with/instead of my phone or w/e somebody remind me?

I got my Gvoice number (323 area code) last week. I've slowly been changing to it as my public number (basically anyone I don't know and/or for clients) and selectively having it forward over to my real phone number. It's already been helpful in the few places where I needed to make a call but didn't have a land line or a mobile signal (but did have a Wi-Fi signal).

Admittedly, I feel like that if you can't defeat SkyNet then you might as well join SkyNet.

got my invite.
what do i make my number?
everything i've searched so far is not avail.

i found a number that ends in 4TZA

y/n?

I signed up back when it was Grandcentral. Never use it though, since I don't really talk on the phone.

y!

got my invite today, too

i got a number not sure im goona use it - if u could answer calls w/a usb phone like on pay skype then youd be on to something - apparently theres a work around if u use gizmo5 but who wants the added complexity

interface looks nice - its just like gmail

btw there were no 212 718 or 917s when i signed up - just 646 and 347

Apple to Google Voice: f.u.

getcha popcorn ready

yeah this is gonna be interesting...

Jesus Christ, what is with the "block culture" these days. Vincent's neighbour is probably very lonely and misunderstood.

http://i26.tinypic.com/6fxw8j.jpg

http://i25.tinypic.com/167t3te.jpg

Got my number, application downloaded, considering using it as my "work number"

i got my invite but still havent read this thread or anything else to really understand what it is

getcha popcorn ready

Good call:

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has resigned from Apple's board of directors as the Internet search leader increasingly develops products that compete with Apple's core businesses, including the popular iPhone.

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said Schmidt would have had to recuse himself from large portions of the company's board meetings to avoid potential conflicts of interest.

fuck yeah, shit's bout to get brolic
in a business way

"Don't be evil...unless those bastards down the road go down."

so i attempted to text someone via the google voice app on my phone but i'm pretty sure it went via my normal phone #, because the sms convo is not showing up in my google voice history. grrrrrr.

so i attempted to text someone via the google voice app on my phone but i'm pretty sure it went via my normal phone #, because the sms convo is not showing up in my google voice history. grrrrrr.

Actually, the mobile-optimized Google Voice page is pretty useful (never got around to getting the app) was able to send SMSes directly from there.

hmmm will have to check it out

this is crazy useful for recording phone calls... good quality and now i can do it from anywhere on my iphone

i wish it had automatic transcription for recording calls, not just for voicemail :(

love the voicemail transcription!

lol except it transcribed 'hi theresa' as 'hi jason'

Hello.

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/google-shakes-it-up-again-with-free-phone-calls/

https://www.google.com/voice/rates

I'm, uh, between phones right now, so this is pretty fucking awesome.

so how do I shot this thing

totally shocked more people don't use this.

it's kind of annoying tbh

many friends still can't grasp how I can get txts w/out a phone

I love it.

I have no cell phone, but I'm able to text, receive voicemails, read transcripts of said voicemails and get e-mail alerts.

I give out this number to my doctor, my dentist, the guy at the garage, parents of my daughter's friends for RSVPs…. no one has to call my work number and ask for my extension to pass along a message.

AND IT'S FrEeeee!

Don't ever change, Google Voice Transcriber.

This is a reminder that you have an appointment Monday October the 15th at 120 with Dr. Lefthanded at U. A. M. S. Shopping Center. Thank you.

is it normal to get an assload of 'wrong number' calls/texts on the first day of setting one of these up?

I got about 10 calls from someone in Colorado, and then a call and a "hey sexy" text from someone in Lauderdale. and as of yet, I haven't given this number to anybody.

I know usually this happens when you acquire a number that belonged to someone that's been in disuse a while, but this is pretty soon!

Jesus, ANOTHER one.

I've blocked them as they come in (usually after explaining that they have the wrong number) but this is getting whack-a-mole

i think you mighta picked a short straw somehow?

To answer your first question, no, at least not in my experience.

I gave up and just paid the $10 to get a new number in a diff area code and it seems to have done the trick.

I have to wonder if the number was close to the number for a sex line or something as every text message was stuff like "hey sexy" or "how much?" from diff people.