Like so many other new things (Twitter, Facebook), I'm going to have to be convinced. I already have a single phone number. Can this thing automagically ring a cell phone if you're in the car, the home phone when at home, and the work phone when at work?
Sounds like it would have been more useful 5 years ago. On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Chris Dunford <[email protected]> wrote: > Word is that Google Voice (formerly GrandCentral) will be launching within a > couple of weeks. It looks very, very cool (and free for domestic use). > > The idea is you have one phone number, which you pick, that you give out to > everyone (business AND personal). Using caller ID, it will ring any of your > phones based on rules that you set up online. Even if you change your real > numbers, the Google number stays the same ("one number for all your phones, > for life"). It can transcribe voice mail, record conversations, route text > messages to your cell, tell you who's calling before you decide to answer, > and provide custom per-caller greetings. It can block individual callers' > numbers, and it has a "telephone spam" filter that can identify and block > telemarketers based on community input. It can send voicemail notifications > via email, and you can listen to the voicemail from your computer. Pretty > nifty stuff. > > http://tinyurl.com/bpwypk > http://www.grandcentral.com/howitworks ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
