Comments on: Mobile sites show us where Google Voice might be going

By: alex

alex — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:49:17 +0000

how i can download google voice on my windows mobile divice

By: natasha

natasha — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:56:46 +0000

google voice web site doesnt work with my blackberry curve 8310. perion no links work!! useless im sms blind when im mobile. buch baloney how great it is

By: mm-kuuyy childrun

mm-kuuyy childrun — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:27:17 +0000

@ everyone with the M2M problem: would it not work to have the few people you want to use M2M for just bypass the GV #. Presumably the phone retains its ability to function as it did before GV so you could just let GV manage all the other multitude of calls you get.

By: Raff

Raff — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:54:26 +0000

Just setted up my ATT (bb Bold) voicemail with GV… Awesome. http://www.blackberryforums.com/wap/GetThread.php?f=14&t=183445&bat=lp&nrp=1

By: Don Louie

Don Louie — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:08:05 +0000

By the time this site was found by me Google had bought GC and no more signups, this would be an awesome addition to my gmail account

By: backbeat

backbeat — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:47:03 +0000

^Screwed yet again, DonVinnie?

By: Don Louie

Don Louie — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:38:01 +0000

You would think now that they’ve put thier name on it, gmail subs would be the 1st ones to be invited to the party

By: Vince Lawry

Vince Lawry — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:51:28 +0000

When I sign in it’s still the same GC mobile, is this only for the actual site because I been looking for a new messaging #

By: ronx

ronx — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:07:44 +0000

trust me, vzw is making plenty of profit on me… i have the lowest amount of minutes, but my wife and are both on the blackberry data plan so that’s an extra $60/month right there. google voice would be really nice to use if i can figure out a way for it to indeed be “free”… paying $14 more per month (which is what it would cost me) for more minutes that i don’t need just so i could make calls through google voice does not qualify as “free”. Granted, it definitely WOULD be a good deal for someone who used a bunch of minutes calling non-verizon numbers since, as you mentioned, it would basically be unlimited free calling to anyone. For me, though, it doesn’t work out that way. Plus, that still doesn’t solve the problem of the calls not being free for my family members that would call me through the GV number unless they, too, increased their minutes and added my GV number to their friends and family list.

By: waynester

waynester — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:02:52 +0000

I’ve had GC/GV since the day google bought it.
As GC i could access some features via a feature phone.
I could at least see listing of who called on my voyager and dare.
All i get from mobile site now with GV , on dare, is the basic template, absent of messages.
None of the links are “clinkable”.
I’m hoping the omnia i receive tomorrow allows full use.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:30:35 +0000

well i understand your account doesnt qualify for friends and family but for probobly another 10 bucks you go from 700 minutes to basically unlimited mintues since all communication could be done through your GV number, worth it in my opinion. I mean vzw cant just give people friend and family with the lowest call plan as they need to make a profit too!

By: ronx

ronx — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:12:26 +0000

dave, unfortunately, I do not qualify for friends and family. as for your first point, yes, others calling me would probably be free for me since their mobile number would show in caller ID, but it won’t be free for them. hopefully one day verizon will open up friends and family to all customers.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:48:32 +0000

well for incoming calls since the caller id shows up as the VZW person calling you then you are not wasting mintues… as for calling out, if you use the method of calling you GV number then pressing option 2 and dialing out like that then you can just add your GV number to the friends and family list and your set =)

By: Maikel

Maikel — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:45:16 +0000

I like the way they make it possible to listen to the voicemails straight from the browser.
Kudos to you, Google.

By: Mikee

Mikee — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:41:50 +0000

Pfft. Who says ‘Bah’? That’s so 1920’s…

By: ronx

ronx — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:26:09 +0000

I just checked and I’m not eligible to use friends and family… I believe you have to have a monthly plan with either 700+ minutes for individual plans or 1400+ minutes for family share plans. I have a family share plan with 700 minutes and am not eligible.

By: D

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:06:01 +0000

I don’t know about the minutes limit. I have 900 minutes and I can use the Friends and Family (i.e. Fav-5). Check your account again or call Verizon to see what the issue is.

As it pertains to using the Fav-5 on Verizon (or any provider), from what I’m told, the new GV uses a specific “406-XXX-XXXX” number that is associated with a specific contact in your list. Therefore, you can add your GV number to your fav-5, but adding that “406-XXX-XXXX” will be hard since each user gets a specific “406-XXX-XXXX” number. I’ve yet to CONFIRM this, but I will try and see later on…

By: ronx

ronx — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:48:36 +0000

I was also excited to be upgraded last week… the only reason I hadn’t ever given out my GC number since I joined a couple years ago was because of the lack of SMS capability. Now that they have that working, I’ve discovered one more snag — how to handle free mobile-to-mobile. My wife and I share 700 minutes on our family plan with Verizon. The primary people we talk to are also “IN” so we get free mobile-to-mobile. It seems like if I make calls through the website, it would not qualify as M2M for either me or the person I’m calling. I’m thinking that if someone on Verizon called me and I answered on my mobile, it would probably qualify as free M2M for me (since the caller ID would show their Verizon number) but still wouldn’t qualify as free M2M for the person calling me since they had to call my google voice number.

I’ve read a few places where people are using the Friends and Family plan that Verizon just introduced as a solution to this problem, but I think I read that you can only use Friends and Family if you have 1400 shared minutes or higher (for family plans)… since we only pay for 700, I don’t think we qualify to use that.

Has anyone else run into this problem? Any clever ways around it?

By: urmomFTW

urmomFTW — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:06:30 +0000

Bah! “World Wide Web”…..who says that? Soooo 1990s…..

By: CollegeBasketBallBettingLines

CollegeBasketBallBettingLines — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:00:59 +0000

That is a great idea, I hope is out of beta soon.

By: Carnell W

Carnell W — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:00:54 +0000

Nevermind. Once you actually log in it goes to the mobile site.

By: Carnell W

Carnell W — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:59:26 +0000

What is the mobile URL for the blackberry? When I visit from my bold i get the default page and not the mobile version

By: D

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:56:53 +0000

My account was also upgraded last week. Once they allow number porting and faxing, then I think they’ll be well on there way to making it a great service! Good start so far though.

By: Dtest54

Dtest54 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:18:06 +0000

my account got upgraded last week and I’ve been toying around with it ever since. Theres a ton of potential but I want to see if its something thats really needed or more of a novelty.