Comments on: GrandCentral showing signs of life; Google releases Vocito

By: max

max — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:46:04 +0000

whenever and if ever they open it. Please share an invite with me.

Thank you in advance.

By: Juan

Juan — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:41:33 +0000

keymaker – you must have a good way of getting that number. Share it with us

Been looking to have a GC number for a while now.

By: Hardyr1

Hardyr1 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:35:53 +0000

If you want to record phone calls, get a foreign GSM phone. Most of them have phone recording option

By: Zach Epstein

Zach Epstein — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:07:53 +0000

I think the plan is to keep current functionality free and ad premium features but who knows at this point… Regardless, if it’s a business line then a reasonable monthly fee shouldn’t be much of an issue.

By: jp

jp — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:54:03 +0000

what? i have a GC account and there is no way to send invites anymore. would you like to share how you got your wife a number 2 days ago?

btw, should i be afraid the Google is going to add fees to what is now my primary business number? or that they will drop the service altogether. i mean why would they put the thing on hold for this long?

By: d

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:18:14 +0000

No love for windows users? Looks like my GC account will stay dormant…

By: keymaker

keymaker — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:13:14 +0000

@blake no is not close, i just got a # for my wife about 2 days ago

By: blake

blake — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:21:32 +0000

the beta is closed dummy. You can’t get in until they reopen it.

By: Roger A

Roger A — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:09:38 +0000

Have GrandCentral, have had it since the day it started… I mainly use it for calls to Canada (its free that way)….

Its also great for using toward ad’s on Craigslist for selling phones or electronics, and giving to people at the bar (when I wanna block them later on).

By: keymaker

keymaker — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:57:00 +0000

@Brandon, Check your spam email folder, sometimes the invites go there

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:38:16 +0000

I thought GC had put a hold on new numbers? I found out about it about a couple of days after Google bought it and entered my info, but haven’t received anything since. That must have been at least 4 months ago.

By: kevad

kevad — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:02:53 +0000

Google and Apple need to fix the inability of the iPhone to playback the voicemail messages which can be downloaded via links in e-mails sent to your phone right after the call, or via link in their mobile version web page. Once you download the message file, which is a specific type of Mp3, it opens the Quickktime media player but then says it cannot play the format. This has been the same since day one of the iPhone with many complaints being ignoed by both Apple & Google. How hard is it to add the audio codec or have Google use standard mp3 that does play on the iPhone? I agree, this being for MAC maybe Google will resolve the issue FINALLY!

By: MadMike

MadMike — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:48:25 +0000

I’ve used GrandCentral before Google bought it out. There are only three things I want: SMS capabilities, record a phone call without the warning message & better caller ID that even identifies callers that block/spoof their number.

The recording could be a legal issue, but in PA only one side of the conversation needs to know that it is being recorded without a warrant.

I also wish their was an iPhone app to record calls.

By: keymaker

keymaker — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:43:00 +0000

This same thing has been on the iPhone App store for the longest, it goes under the Name of Granddialer though, but it connect your calls the same way using your grandcentral account, this is cool cause you no longer have to give people your real phone # to call you, just give them your grandcentral # and everytime they call it grandcentral forward the calls to your real #, grandcentral also gives you the option to display your real # or your grandcentral # when calling people back which is nice too. If you don’t have a Grandcentral account just visit the site and reserved your # and within 2 to 3 days you should receive a email from them with a invite, this is also good is you want a business # where people can reach you but you can block annoying people or just turn off the line on week ends

By: Colby

Colby — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:37:28 +0000

I don’t have an issue with spam on my GrandCentral number, but the lack of ability to receive SMS is STILL preventing me from making my GC number my primary one.

By: Taco

Taco — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:21:24 +0000

It may be a nice service if they could do as good of a job filtering the spam calls out as they do with the GMail service.

By: hpduong

hpduong — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:07:01 +0000

i wish i could get in on the grandcentral action….