Replying to Google Voice

I love this service. I was invited to join Google Voice a few years ago but never took advantage of it until recently. I was going to be traveling overseas so I figured I'd just get a number so I could use the texting feature and make calls.

Little did I know.. Google voice uses your phone to make calls. The texting feature, however, works great whether your phone is working or not.

However, a hidden feature I discovered.. was in Gmail. It doesn't happen all the time, but occasionally, and being overseas, the "Call Phone" button is available.. and I can make a free call from where I'm located to the United States.

I love this service. I'm hoping they keep it free. Awesome to have, awesome to keep in touch, and best of all -- UNLIMITED TEXT MESSAGES!

Important to note: Don't sign up using your phone connected to your existing plan. There are more benefits to just creating a new number with Google Voice.

Who knows in future they'll mix google voice and google talk. That will be kill of skype in my opinion. Like this will be a way to use IM and calling to phone from withing messenger. What more we need ?

The number of features offered by Google voice and all this for free is really amazing. Hoping if it would be released in more countries.

Quatrux, Google talk and Google voice are every different even though they serve the same purpose, that is communication. In google talk, we cannot call a real phone number or vice versa. It can only be used for peer to peer voice or text communication online. I use gtalk, and I must say the quality or rather the connectivity of calls is very poor compared to skype. Sometimes the network signal of gtalk suddenly cuts off. And the funny thing is that, if I have been on an intermittent chat with someone on a single call, I wouldn't know when the signal got cut off. I would be keep on wondering why is this pal not answering and when I see the network on the chat box, its gone.

Never used Google voice, but as I remember Google talk has the same thing or is it something different? :?

I think with Skype and with google voice you can ring a home wired phone. You cannot do this with google talk.

Never tried any other VoIP in a real situation only Skype, because here in my country it's so popular that everyone has it, so it's easy to talk and use video while talking, but for sometime I don't use it as much as I used to, nor do I want to see video of someone else nor I want to talk with no reason anymore, because sometimes it may look stupid talking to yourself if somebody doesn't know you're talking through a computer to someone else Same as people speaking in public bus or trolleybus with their hands free, looks like idiots until you understand

Never used Google voice, but as I remember Google talk has the same thing or is it something different? :?

I think Skype is better.

i also need google voice over in india

Sounds nice will check it out soon

Hmmmm.... Well that sounds pretty interesting. I really don't know anything about the Google Voice. All I know is from your postings. But I think it sounds like a good deal, and I will have to check it out after I am done posting. To me is sounds like Microsoft Sam, but that is just me. I will have to see what the excitement is about!

I will repost afterwards with my critique.

- skedad -

This is another gift from the google to its user.
thankx to google for such tremendous features...

and thankx for the information...

keep posting..