Google Voice application arrives today for Android and BlackBerry phones
Posted on 15 July 2009, at 6:31 am, by Wayne Schulz
Users of Google Voice with an Android or BlackBerry phone will be able to download a free Google application to seamlessly route their incoming and outgoing calls. Google Voice is a free phone service presently in a closed beta test. The concept behind Google Voice is brilliant. You are assigned one phone number which can be forwarded to any of your regular phone lines (cell, home, work). Calls can also be made from Google voice though until these applications part of the challenge of working with Google Voice was an often lengthy series of numbers that you’d dial in order to access Google Voice and make your outgoing calls appear to originate from your new Google Voice number. There’s still no official iPhone application though GV Mobile is available from a third party and works quite well.
Google Voice coming to Android and BlackBerry (CNET) – download from http://m.google.com/voice
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July 15th, 2009 at 9:23 am
GoogleVoice is probably my favorite service at the moment (even “way back” when it was GrandCentral). Folks who are not using it (due to the closed beta) are going to flip for it. One number, ubiquitous for all of your devices. I really think the service will continue to be a to the current telecom structure
Forget local number portability in regards to having (or caring) to to try and move your number. GoogleVoice gives you one number “for life.” I have everything from office, home, and 3 other mobiles I freely “swap” between taken care of from GoogleVoice. Another bonus — I’ve altogether stopped caring about when I am “eligible” to upgrade devices. Why? I have my single GoogleVoice number. I can open another new acct with any wireless carrier I choose without having to notify every contact to change my number. To me, that is the “hidden” highlight. GoogleVoice makes it completely transparent. Want to upgrade to an iPhone 3GS but not eligible? No worries. New acct and use GV for my “primary” number and service. THAT alone makes GV a goldmine, in my opinion.
Sure, I may have to cancel one line (or go through a transfer of service to avoid a penalty) if I choose to completely drop a line on my acct — but the fact is I have that ability (freedom!) to make that determination at my own whim — not a 2yr date set by the carrier.
Given that Google has bought spectrum, and are slowly but surely opening GV to the public, I believe we are all in for a very exciting time. Coupled with Google’s Wave and other unified communications-type services, Google may successfully win the “sneak attack” on modern telecommunications services (emphasis on services, and not the actual network).
Consumers get freedom and transparency (GV to fwd your number to any line you wish, without impacting your friends, family, clients, or colleagues with “multiple number syndrome”). It may not be “flashy” but GV is huge — and the most beneficial “apps” / services I utilize on a daily basis.
Om Malik published another great piece on GV today, that really helps drive home all these updates we are seeing – http://gigaom.com/2009/07/14/m.....e-company/. I completely agree that the GV aplication(in his words) “reduces the cell phone carrier to a dumb pipe.”