Google bought a company called grand central in 2007 that offers you a phone number that you can use as your entry point to all your phone numbers. So your other numbers may change but your entry point number will be same for life. They stopped accepting new members after the purchase and promised to relaunch it after major improvements. It took them 21 months but they are now relaunching the service as ‘google voice’.
I have been using grandcentral from almost the beginning. It is a pretty handy service and worth checking out. Here are some of the cool new features:
- Text messaging
- Voice mail transcription
- International calling
- Conference calls
Here is a video on google voice:
[...] launches google voice in the US, google is expermineting with vilalge noticeboard a voice service for indian village [...]
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The main problem with this is how to get all your friends and business contacts to start using your google number instead of your normal one!
I think Avakit can solve this though!! It helped me a lot when I changed jobs… otherwise it would have been a nightmare to sit and think of every person in the world who I need to send my new contacts to! Now I just need to add my google number. Highly recommend it
Comment by Avazed — March 20, 2009 @ 10:57 am