Comments on: Google Voice invites start flowing

By: Alle

Alle — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:56:09 +0000

Does anyone have any invites left over to send me?

Thanks

aabaldini@gmail.com

By: Francis

Francis — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:04:49 +0000

Hi!

Please send and invite to francispaulraj at gmail dot com

By: Sunil

Sunil — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:27:40 +0000

Hii
any one can send me google voice or wave invite @ sunny5055@gmail.com

thanks a ton

Sunny

By: La La

La La — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:19:34 +0000

hi
I was looking at some of the post and i was waiting for an invite for a while now. i wanted to know if you could share any information with me or now that you are on the inside could you send me an invite please.

By: Isaac Ladson

Isaac Ladson — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:54:43 +0000

I have 108 invites that are google authorized from a friend of mine (thank you).. But i am taking a $10 donation for my foundation called Kids without Kicks. if interested email caine420rep@gmail.com

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:45:57 +0000

I have had Grandcentral, and now Google Voice for over a year. It is crazy! Lets you block IDIOTS from calling you, and when you’re in entertainment, THAT IS BIG!!

By: Anthony Berthou mieux

Anthony Berthou mieux — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:37:32 +0000

I got my invite and set up my this morning, let you guys how well it works

By: Ron P

Ron P — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:52:12 +0000

From the Google Voice Twitter Page:
Invites for Google Voice are going out, and our list is huge, so it will take a while to get though them all. Be patient. Thanks!

Only obvious but gives a feeling of just how intense the waiting list was/is/ will be LOL

BTW, has anyone else had the Notification from their Carrier to get rid of their Google Voice / Grand Central number in their My Faves or equivalent list. I have 2 on 2 Tmobile accts and 1 on a Sprint acct./ Never, ever, had a problem. Ive been with Grand Central since the beginning.

By: Pythagoras

Pythagoras — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:28:01 +0000

this so cool.

They are prefacing every voicemail w/a Michael Jackson medly.

Did anyone else get this?

By: Rosegold

Rosegold — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:55:27 +0000

Where’s my invite google???

By: Tech_Terry

Tech_Terry — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:30:51 +0000

Good to know that I can set the inbound number to show GV # or callers ID. I have not logged into my account in over a year, but still get GV e-mails in reference to my account.

Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Quakertown United States

By: Tech_Terry

Tech_Terry — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:27:38 +0000

Anyway I have only used my GV Philly number a few times. Would be happy to give it up for a local number.

Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Quakertown United States

By: Name (required)

Name (required) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:26:49 +0000

You have the choice in settings to determine if your GC # or the callers number shows on your caller id

By: Tech_Terry

Tech_Terry — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:25:19 +0000

In-bound GV calls show the caller-ID of the caller. You do not know if the caller was a direct dial to your home/cell number unless you setup call screening. This prevents use as a Fav-5 number. Other wise how would you know who is calling?

Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Quakertown United States

By: hammad

hammad — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:09:38 +0000

Contact me and maybe we can work something out.

By: Name (required)

Name (required) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:06:46 +0000

I just wish I could eBay off my 213 Los Angeles Grand Central number, because it would be great for a business.

By: Name (required)

Name (required) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:04:38 +0000

No…You can no longer add Grand Central numbers to MyFaves or anything of the sort. The carriers caught onto that.
I have 4 “GrandCentral” numbers since they originally were released back a few years ago or whenever it was.
For almost a year I had it as a MyFave, which was great, because the systems recognized the incoming call as coming from my GrandCentral numbers rather than the actual number that was calling in.
To make a call using your GrandCentral number, you would just have to go to their mobile site, and hit the call link to the right of the actual phone number in the contacts.
That sends the request to the GrandCentral servers to initiate a call to you from your GrandCentral number. Once you pick up, it dials out the number you chose to call.
I MAYBE used 100 minutes a month that weren’t MyFaves at that point.
Then the carriers got smart and started sending out warnings that you had x amount of days to replace that “gateway” number with a different number before they cut it off.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:32:22 +0000

I work with cell phones and I think this is great… I can use gv to filter calls and/or have coworkers calls forwarded to my personal phone without carrying 3 phones to the movies ( one for fam/friend, 1 for coworkers, 1 for customers)

By: Logan

Logan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:09:33 +0000

I suppose you could make the GV number one of your fave 5, friends & family on some carriers and that might save you some minutes.

By: nophone

nophone — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:13:37 +0000

justin , good idea

By: nophone

nophone — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:09:42 +0000

thanks

By: lomion

lomion — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:03:34 +0000

yes and yes. Google Voice does not make your cell phone free.

By: nophone

nophone — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:52:57 +0000

if i make a call to my GV number from
my cell phone , am I still paying for minutes??

and if some one call my GV number and then GV forwards it to my cell phone.. am I still paying for minutes?

anyone knows??

By: kapil

kapil — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:37:06 +0000

even i thought do i need forwarding that much…
but having had great experience with gmail , calendar,
google docs , igoogle and what not …i think this should
be great….google brand has proved itself over years …just waiting to get the invite

By: Vince

Vince — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:17:12 +0000

Well, I just scanned the GV site, but there’s no option (yet) for sending invites to you poor suckers. When it does I’ll let you know!

By: Billy

Billy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:15:39 +0000

@rizza

As Grandcentral points out, forwarding is extremely valuable. Listening in to voicemail in order to screen calls with no caller id is another. Merlin Mann actually created a 10 minute voicemail message (that could be stopped by pressing #) just to screen computer calls.

In my case it’ll get light use, but my parents have an old number that a lot of old friends use. If Google implements number portability (as has been rumored), I’ll port their number to voice and allow them to turn off that number and save $30 per month.

For me it will be the default number given to anyone who is not a business or personal contact, e.g. info given for commercial registrations and buyers clubs. Then I can filter all of them into my voicemail.

By: Donders

Donders — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:00:23 +0000

@Justin

Damn thats a good idea! I don’t have Fav 5, but I wonder if they thought of that.

By: GrandCentral

GrandCentral — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:41:14 +0000

Yes … you ARE the only one.

I’ts not the forwarding part that has value, it’s everything else … custom call routing and dumping, transfers on the fly to any one of your other numbers, voicemail transcription, on the fly conference bridging.

I’ve been using it since the Grand Central days, one of the things I have used it for is a work from home number, I can give it out to anyone, then simply dump all the callers in my “Work” address book group directly to voicemail when I’m done for the day.

By: mcpooperson

mcpooperson — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:39:43 +0000

chill rizza

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:39:11 +0000

@rizza the reason is that I can then add the number that google calls me with (or that I call to make an outgoing call) to my fav 5 and get unlimited calling everywhere. Not to mention their international rates are extremely low.