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  • Offline Sam

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on: October 21, 2009, 03:11:41 AM
Anyone else got a google voice number yet ?

You choose your own phone number (so I choose a good repeating number (areacode) 229229) and then you download google voice app for your android phone. Now, when someone calls your google number its seemlessly routed to your Android phone. And when you make outgoing calls you can choose to dial from your proper number or your google number. Now if someone leaves a voicemail google transcribe it into text and send you an email, along with the wave file. Pretty clever stuff. So you can ring me, leave a message, I can see your message in my inbox, and my phone might be a 1000 miles away.
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Reply #1 on: October 21, 2009, 07:05:00 AM
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Anyone else got a google voice number yet ?

You choose your own phone number (so I choose a good repeating number (areacode) 229229) and then you download google voice app for your android phone. Now, when someone calls your google number its seemlessly routed to your Android phone. And when you make outgoing calls you can choose to dial from your proper number or your google number. Now if someone leaves a voicemail google transcribe it into text and send you an email, along with the wave file. Pretty clever stuff. So you can ring me, leave a message, I can see your message in my inbox, and my phone might be a 1000 miles away.


Not tied to just Android (on iphone if it gets approved as well) but a word of warning.
Voice stuff is appearing on google search results, lol!
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Reply #2 on: October 21, 2009, 08:39:33 AM
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Anyone else got a google voice number yet ?

You choose your own phone number (so I choose a good repeating number (areacode) 229229) and then you download google voice app for your android phone. Now, when someone calls your google number its seemlessly routed to your Android phone. And when you make outgoing calls you can choose to dial from your proper number or your google number. Now if someone leaves a voicemail google transcribe it into text and send you an email, along with the wave file. Pretty clever stuff. So you can ring me, leave a message, I can see your message in my inbox, and my phone might be a 1000 miles away.


Not tied to just Android (on iphone if it gets approved as well) but a word of warning.
Voice stuff is appearing on google search results, lol!


Only the people that selected the option to make it available to public search.

I have a GV number, but its pretty much useless in the UK. Cant connect it to non-US phones. Cant SMS internationally OR receive international texts. I can use it as a pure voicemail box though. Also, since I made www.twitlonger.com I am amazed at managing to get 626-TWT-LONG :)
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Reply #3 on: October 21, 2009, 10:14:52 AM
Yer bit usless for us UK people at the moment but I love the idea :)
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Reply #4 on: October 21, 2009, 10:35:43 AM
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Anyone else got a google voice number yet ?

You choose your own phone number (so I choose a good repeating number (areacode) 229229) and then you download google voice app for your android phone. Now, when someone calls your google number its seemlessly routed to your Android phone. And when you make outgoing calls you can choose to dial from your proper number or your google number. Now if someone leaves a voicemail google transcribe it into text and send you an email, along with the wave file. Pretty clever stuff. So you can ring me, leave a message, I can see your message in my inbox, and my phone might be a 1000 miles away.


Not tied to just Android (on iphone if it gets approved as well) but a word of warning.
Voice stuff is appearing on google search results, lol!


Only the people that selected the option to make it available to public search.

I have a GV number, but its pretty much useless in the UK. Cant connect it to non-US phones. Cant SMS internationally OR receive international texts. I can use it as a pure voicemail box though. Also, since I made www.twitlonger.com I am amazed at managing to get 626-TWT-LONG :)


It is and will be the other way around, you got to opt out not in of the google search listings. It is google :) They like the archive EVERYTHING! lol
Not a big deal but I found it funny when I read the article of the guy who found his voice chats on google. He wrote it well. :rofl:
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Reply #5 on: October 21, 2009, 12:28:49 PM
Its one of those things that people will be up in arms about privacy and all that crap again (like with google maps & latitude)

If you dont like it, turn it off OR DONT USE IT! idiots :P
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Reply #6 on: October 21, 2009, 18:03:05 PM
Google wont make it opt out. That would be silly. But I dont mind them archiving my messages, couldnt care less.

I see you went for CA area code Goblin :)
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Reply #7 on: October 21, 2009, 18:04:06 PM
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Not tied to just Android (on iphone if it gets approved as well) but a word of warning.
Voice stuff is appearing on google search results, lol!


I didnt say it was only on android. But android is the only phone at the moment with the proper integration. The others you cant dial out using it. I always dial out using my google voice now, so I dont have to give out my proper NJ number.
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Reply #8 on: October 21, 2009, 20:23:59 PM
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Google wont make it opt out. That would be silly. But I dont mind them archiving my messages, couldnt care less.

I see you went for CA area code Goblin :)


Twas the only one available for the twt-long, but I certainly wasnt complaining about it making me look I was at least near the Valley. Well, Pasadena area, but better than Bumsville Iowa.
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Reply #9 on: October 22, 2009, 04:26:17 AM
I went for a Texas area code to confuse my mates here.
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Reply #10 on: October 22, 2009, 07:20:47 AM
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Google wont make it opt out. That would be silly. But I dont mind them archiving my messages, couldnt care less.

I see you went for CA area code Goblin :)


Books is opt out, several other stuff currently in beta etc is all opt out. They do opt out not in as standard.
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Not tied to just Android (on iphone if it gets approved as well) but a word of warning.
Voice stuff is appearing on google search results, lol!


I didnt say it was only on android. But android is the only phone at the moment with the proper integration. The others you cant dial out using it. I always dial out using my google voice now, so I dont have to give out my proper NJ number.

I know, was just saying. they are going to push it to come up against skype.
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Reply #11 on: October 22, 2009, 21:00:00 PM
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Books is opt out, several other stuff currently in beta etc is all opt out. They do opt out not in as standard.


This is a discussion on voice tho.
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