With Google Voice you get a lot of features. It is a very advanced voicemail. But it is more than that. It is your personal secretary. It routes your calls to the phone you have at hand – giving you the option to have only one “official” number, but being available on different networks at different times. You can use it to screen, and you can get your voicemail transcribed as text forwarded to your email account.
Everything is very Googleish – and I just love it.
SMS to international numbers now work – so I have been testing it; and it is a very handy solution. Google Voice gives you the opportunity to forward the incoming SMS via email or to another mobile (US number only). This way you can be fully operative when you are in the states, and you can stay connected even when you return to Europe. Currently the fact that you will send SMS from a US number makes it less interesting when I communicate with fellow Norwegians in Norway. But the technology, the way of having ONE number that works cross mobile, skype-id, office-line, VoIP etc… it just perfect. And if it can be the real crossover between classic SMS and just Short Messaging where you’ll communicate one-to-one person and not one-to-one phone is just perfect. People stay connected in one way or the other. It makes sense to have a digital information hub that includes voice!
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