Google Voice

Alex · July 21st, 2009, 07:06 PM

Stop what you're doing. Go immediately to Google Voice and click the "get an invite" link at the bottom of the page. It is just so insanely cool. And it's free.

For an overview, check out this video:

Link to original page on YouTube.

For even more info, there is a features link on that Google Voice page. I put in an invite request a few weeks ago and just received the invite today. Only took a few minutes to get up and running and it is pretty darned neat. The transcribed voicemails are just killer.

NickH · July 21st, 2009, 07:47 PM

This is pretty cool. Thanks Alex!
Posted via Mobile Device

M-Oorb · July 21st, 2009, 07:59 PM

That seems nuts!! As I'm a college student right now with no work number and I'm barely home, this doesnt really matter to me but I still wanna look into it and get a number for that day...good find alex!

Alex · July 21st, 2009, 11:15 PM

Damn this is cool. I've just set up a call widget for ninjette.org. This allows any of you miscreants to call and leave a vmail for me on the site, without ever having to make my google voice number, or your own number either, public. Try it out!

zartan · July 21st, 2009, 11:39 PM

oh my gawd you're just like Flo rida

!!

ScraitT · July 22nd, 2009, 04:49 AM

I've been waiting for this to finally open up for a while....and now that it's finally up I have to work all day! Gah!
O well, I know what I'll be doing late tonight.

Thanks for the heads up

Alex · July 22nd, 2009, 08:53 AM

It's not totally open yet, but they are apparently responding to more invite requests in their queue. Get an invite request in ASAP (it takes < 10 seconds), and then hopefully they will send you an invite in the near future.

g21-30 · July 22nd, 2009, 01:31 PM

Yeh, Google Voice is Grand Central renamed. Google acquired Grand Central more than a year ago. I've had this service for a couple of years and haven't used it. Thanks for the reminder.

Alex · July 22nd, 2009, 03:53 PM

They purchased Grand Central over 2 years ago, and it has taken them quite awhile to relaunch it. Everything Grand Central could do, Google Voice has, but they've also added quite a few new features to it that make it both more useful and more seamless. Like the mobile app for bberries/iphones that allows you to make calls directly that show the google voice number as the CID instead of your cell number, the transcribed vmails, the more advanced call routing/call handling based on very specific caller groups. And it's now completely free, as well as having available phone numbers in many more local markets.

Alex · July 22nd, 2009, 03:54 PM

Hey, how come nobody has left me a vmail yet?

M-Oorb · July 30th, 2009, 05:09 PM

I just got my invitation to google voice

. Ill be giving my parents the number though(for now) as all I use is my cell phone but eventually when I get a real place to live and a real job I'll take it back

Alex · July 30th, 2009, 05:15 PM

You pushover.

Take it for yourself, and if you want to keep your cell number, just use it as the world's coolest voicemail system. Point your cell to forward unanswered calls to your GV number instead of your cell's native voicemail.

Have your parents request an invite themselves for their own google account. If you set yours up now with your google account and yet it's their number, they will need access to your google account to get in and actually use the service. As of now, there isn't a clean way to transfer a google voice number from one google account to another; they are intrinsically tied together.

I found this article on LifeHacker very helpful in starting to transition over to the new phone number / new service. They bring up things that I hadn't thought of, and ways to make the transition a little easier and sensible.

M-Oorb · July 30th, 2009, 05:22 PM

True I didnt think of that...

Now say I started to give out my google number instead of my cell phone...how does text messaging work? Can you text the google number?

And I have verizon cell phone service so others who have verizon can call and text me for free...Im guessing they will get charged(or their minutes will be used) correct?

Alex · July 30th, 2009, 05:28 PM

SMS works great with the google number. You can text to it, and it will forward the SMS messages to any of your linked phones that you've classified as mobile. From the google voice website, you can SMS for free. And from your phone, you can use Google Voice to SMS if you want it to look like it's coming from your google number. Of course everything that used to work with your cell phone still works exactly like it did before as well.

The free minutes and mobile to mobile issue is a larger one. Basically it depends on a whole bunch of variables, but when you think 'em all through and apply them to whatever your particular cell plan covers, it makes sense. If you have Verizon --> Verizon free right now, then if you use the Google Voice dialer to call from your Verizon phone to the Google access number, then no, it wouldn't be free. You're no longer dialing a Verizon cell number. Same as if your friends call your new google number; it would be as if they were calling a normal (non-Verizon) number. But if you have one of those plans where you can add some unlimited numbers, all you really need to add is the google access number and your own google number, then any outbound call you make with the phone is free.

noche_caliente · July 30th, 2009, 07:33 PM

I got my invitation yesterday as well - seems pretty fun so far

Alex · July 31st, 2009, 06:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex

Same as if your friends call your new google number; it would be as if they were calling a normal (non-Verizon) number.

Saw something last night in the Google Voice forum; some folks are claiming that if you configure it to allow the calling number to come through in CallerID rather than showing your Google number, that the cell billing on your side would be identical to if that person dialed your cell number directly. I.E. if someone on Verizon called your Google number and it is forwarding to your Verizon cell, there would be no charge for you, but there would be a charge for them. The logic in this is that your phone is thinking you're getting a call from a Verizon number, as that's what's showing up on your CallerID, but your caller is calling a non-Verizon number (your Google Voice number). I don't know for sure either way yet, haven't tested it enough yet myself to know.

M-Oorb · July 31st, 2009, 01:48 PM

So im trying to figure out how to be able to hear and read my voicemails from my cell phone on google voice. Alex, I dont see any place on google voice to allow me to forward my unanswered calls to google voice...mind pointing me in the right direction?

Alex · July 31st, 2009, 10:09 PM

On your cell phone, you should be able to muck around in the menus to find out where things are being forwarded for unanswered calls, busy calls, etc. When you find it, there is already a number in there. That existing number is your current cell company's vmail access number. Write it down, in case you decide to change it back later. Enter your Google Voice number into those fields on your cell phone, so if your cell receives a call, and you don't answer it, after a few rings it gets forwarded to your google voice number.

The on your google voice account, uncheck your cell phone from default forwarding, so once a call gets to google voice it doesn't forward it right back to your cell phone. If you have all phones unchecked on your account, every call will just go immediately to voicemail, which is what you want in this case.

To check your voicemails from any phone, you can just call your own google voice number and press * when the message starts.

M-Oorb · August 1st, 2009, 04:54 PM

Well figured out the voicemail thing but I ran into my first issue today, or I should say my girlfriend did. I have my cell phone linked on google voice but I havent given out my number to anyone yet. Havent blocked any numbers on google voice or anything like that. So my girl friend goes to call me today, via speed dial so its the same number she always calls, and it says the number has been disconnected. She calls two more times and it still says that. Finally, on the 4th try, it goes through. Weird...

Alex · August 1st, 2009, 09:48 PM

If you have your cell phone forwarding to Google Voice, make sure that you don't also have your Google Voice forwarding right back to your cell phone. It will cause random behavior, including dropped calls and weird error messages. You need to uncheck your cell phone (and every other phone) in that Phones tab, so anything that is forwarded to the Google Voice number immediately just goes to voicemail.

DarkNinja52 · August 1st, 2009, 10:39 PM

looks cool, im gona check it out, expect a ton of probably very obvious questions..

thanks guysss

Alex · October 8th, 2009, 01:06 PM

Google Voice was just expanded to include Hawaii and Alaska!

Link for more info...

DarkNinja52 · October 8th, 2009, 09:36 PM

my friend said theyre allowing users to send invites to friends, but i dont think he's right.

Any one know?

CZroe · October 9th, 2009, 02:51 AM

Can I use this to have a SoCal number for my Atlanta-area cell phone? I have a feeling that they might frown on it as some kind of location spoofing. I don't want to change my cell service because I expect to be back in GA before too long.

Alex · October 9th, 2009, 05:45 AM

You can choose any phone number from anywhere; location doesn't matter.

CZroe · October 9th, 2009, 06:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex

You can choose any phone number from anywhere; location doesn't matter.

Sweet. Thanks! I knew I'd be checking it out sometime soon and now I have a reason to hurry up and find an invite.

g21-30 · October 9th, 2009, 08:49 AM

Get an invite here:

https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googlevoiceinvite/

Alex · October 27th, 2009, 09:51 AM

Minor feature update for Google Voice today, you can now use your own existing number for the service (as long as it is a mobile number). Using it this way doesn't give you all of the features that are available if you use a new number, but it does give a chunk. Primarily, 1-box voicemail with email transcription; no more need to check vmail on a cell and for a google number; it's all integrated.

More info here:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/...-existing.html

Also, I've got a few invites left so if anyone needs a google voice account, just PM me with your preferred email address and I'll shoot one your way.

CZroe · October 27th, 2009, 03:06 PM

Nice.

Alex · November 17th, 2009, 10:16 AM

Another minor improvement to that integrated voicemail from cell numbers. Before all it was really doing was forwarding from your cell to your google voice number, so it rang all of your other phones and then went to voicemail if they didn't pick up. So it was 8 or 9 rings before vmail picked up if someone called your cell.

They added an option so it can go straight to voicemail after it rings your cell the normal amount of times, so it seems even more seamless.

CZroe · May 16th, 2010, 12:21 PM

I believe that I first submitted an invite request over a year ago and I still have nothing. It looks like they are now giving them to anyone with a student email address ending with .edu. Australia.edu gived free edu addresses but GV is for USA only, so it might not work. I'm trying but they say that I am low priority because I didn't donate, so I'm STILL looking for an invite. I still don't have a local number here in San Diego (using Atlanta area code), so it's badly needed.

noche_caliente · May 16th, 2010, 02:30 PM

I have 3 invites - PM me

CZroe · May 16th, 2010, 07:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noche_caliente

i have 3 invites - pm me

thank you thank you thank you

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gogoKawi · May 16th, 2010, 08:13 PM

Google voice is the best telephone service I have ever used. I've had it for almost a year. No problems what so ever. Call quality is good. The SMS and voice messages sent to email is fantastic. The voice transcription can be a bit suspect. But, it's still helpful.

The only thing that worries me is that it's free, from a monetary standpoint. Nothing is free! Even though Google says it doesn't read your SMSs or listen to your voicemails, I know they are using that data. I just hope that I never find out what they are doing with it.

Regardless, it's still great. If you can get it, by all means do it.

CZroe · May 16th, 2010, 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gogoKawi

Google voice is the best telephone service I have ever used. I've had it for almost a year. No problems what so ever. Call quality is good. The SMS and voice messages sent to email is fantastic. The voice transcription can be a bit suspect. But, it's still helpful.

The only thing that worries me is that it's free, from a monetary standpoint. Nothing is free! Even though Google says it doesn't read your SMSs or listen to your voicemails, I know they are using that data. I just hope that I never find out what they are doing with it.

Regardless, it's still great. If you can get it, by all means do it.

It won't always be free. Right now they are getting valuable testing done by VIPs participating by invite.

250Rocket · May 16th, 2010, 10:33 PM

I've wanted it since it came out. It would be killer paired with my Android phone but FML it's not available in Canada.

Alex · June 23rd, 2010, 12:12 PM

Google Voice is no longer invite only; it was opened up to everyone yesterday.

link to details

No information on expansion outside of the US as of yet, but it has to be coming at some point.

dubojr1 · December 1st, 2011, 08:09 AM

Is there a way that this would provide free home telephone service. I'm looking at getting rid of my land-line and the cost associated with it but I still have a teenage son that gets home from school before me so he would still need a means of calling out.

Alex · December 1st, 2011, 11:37 AM

Somewhat. Google Voice can now be linked to Google Chat virtual phones, which means you can dial out directly from your computer. So with a headset (or if the computer has decent microphone / speakers available), you can call out to any US number for free if you're sitting in front of the computer.

But to my knowledge, there is no easy way to hook it up to a standard telephone system to allow it to both ring and call out by directly using Google Voice and not a telephone service of its own.

If you're killing the landline just for cost reasons, but still want to use traditional phones in the house, definitely look into VOIP services. We have one through TMobile for $10/month tacked onto our normal cell bill, and it provides unlimited calling through standard phones that are plugged into their VOIP router on our network. Vonage and a host of others provide the same thing for much cheaper than a traditional land line.

setasai · December 1st, 2011, 11:43 AM

As far as I know, there is or was a way to do some kind of wifi voip call forwarding to google voice's number but i think it's far more complicated than I would bother with. I also dont know how reliable it would be.

An alternative would be to bundle your landline w/ cable tv and high speed internet. You might get a deal that makes keeping the landline around worth it.

My household uses ooma. It's basically a one time fee for lifetime free voip landline. It works well for the most part but like any voip system, it has its faults. If you have any questions about it, let me know.

July 21st, 2009, 07:06 PM	#1
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	Google Voice Stop what you're doing. Go immediately to Google Voice and click the "get an invite" link at the bottom of the page. It is just so insanely cool. And it's free. For an overview, check out this video: Link to original page on YouTube. For even more info, there is a features link on that Google Voice page. I put in an invite request a few weeks ago and just received the invite today. Only took a few minutes to get up and running and it is pretty darned neat. The transcribed voicemails are just killer. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

July 21st, 2009, 11:15 PM	#4
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	Damn this is cool. I've just set up a call widget for ninjette.org. This allows any of you miscreants to call and leave a vmail for me on the site, without ever having to make my google voice number, or your own number either, public. Try it out! __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

July 21st, 2009, 11:39 PM	#5
zartan ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: zartan Location: spam la Join Date: Oct 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 250 R Posts: A lot.	oh my gawd you're just like Flo rida !! __________________________________________________ "Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision" Colin Powell Last futzed with by zartan; July 22nd, 2009 at 11:57 PM.

July 22nd, 2009, 04:49 AM	#6
ScraitT Green! Name: Tyler Location: S. Florida Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 Ninja 250R, 04 Honda CRF230F, 94 Honda XR80R Posts: 505	I've been waiting for this to finally open up for a while....and now that it's finally up I have to work all day! Gah! O well, I know what I'll be doing late tonight. Thanks for the heads up __________________________________________________ 2008 Green 250R

July 22nd, 2009, 08:53 AM	#7
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	It's not totally open yet, but they are apparently responding to more invite requests in their queue. Get an invite request in ASAP (it takes < 10 seconds), and then hopefully they will send you an invite in the near future. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

July 21st, 2009, 07:47 PM	#2
NickH ninjette.org member Name: Nick Location: Iowa Join Date: Apr 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2009 Buell XB12Scg and 2009 Kawasaki Ninja 250R Posts: 98	This is pretty cool. Thanks Alex! Posted via Mobile Device

July 21st, 2009, 07:59 PM	#3
M-Oorb ninjette.org sage Name: Matt Location: South East Florida/Rutgers University Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): 2008 250r (Fastest Color) Posts: 914	That seems nuts!! As I'm a college student right now with no work number and I'm barely home, this doesnt really matter to me but I still wanna look into it and get a number for that day...good find alex!

July 22nd, 2009, 01:31 PM	#8
g21-30 ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Sam Location: Northern Virginia Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): Ninja 250R 2009 Posts: A lot.	Yeh, Google Voice is Grand Central renamed. Google acquired Grand Central more than a year ago. I've had this service for a couple of years and haven't used it. Thanks for the reminder.

July 22nd, 2009, 03:53 PM	#9
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	They purchased Grand Central over 2 years ago, and it has taken them quite awhile to relaunch it. Everything Grand Central could do, Google Voice has, but they've also added quite a few new features to it that make it both more useful and more seamless. Like the mobile app for bberries/iphones that allows you to make calls directly that show the google voice number as the CID instead of your cell number, the transcribed vmails, the more advanced call routing/call handling based on very specific caller groups. And it's now completely free, as well as having available phone numbers in many more local markets. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

July 22nd, 2009, 03:54 PM	#10
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	Hey, how come nobody has left me a vmail yet? __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

July 30th, 2009, 05:09 PM	#11
M-Oorb ninjette.org sage Name: Matt Location: South East Florida/Rutgers University Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): 2008 250r (Fastest Color) Posts: 914	I just got my invitation to google voice . Ill be giving my parents the number though(for now) as all I use is my cell phone but eventually when I get a real place to live and a real job I'll take it back

July 30th, 2009, 05:15 PM	#12
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	You pushover. Take it for yourself, and if you want to keep your cell number, just use it as the world's coolest voicemail system. Point your cell to forward unanswered calls to your GV number instead of your cell's native voicemail. Have your parents request an invite themselves for their own google account. If you set yours up now with your google account and yet it's their number, they will need access to your google account to get in and actually use the service. As of now, there isn't a clean way to transfer a google voice number from one google account to another; they are intrinsically tied together. I found this article on LifeHacker very helpful in starting to transition over to the new phone number / new service. They bring up things that I hadn't thought of, and ways to make the transition a little easier and sensible. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

July 30th, 2009, 05:22 PM	#13
M-Oorb ninjette.org sage Name: Matt Location: South East Florida/Rutgers University Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): 2008 250r (Fastest Color) Posts: 914	True I didnt think of that... Now say I started to give out my google number instead of my cell phone...how does text messaging work? Can you text the google number? And I have verizon cell phone service so others who have verizon can call and text me for free...Im guessing they will get charged(or their minutes will be used) correct?

July 30th, 2009, 05:28 PM	#14
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	SMS works great with the google number. You can text to it, and it will forward the SMS messages to any of your linked phones that you've classified as mobile. From the google voice website, you can SMS for free. And from your phone, you can use Google Voice to SMS if you want it to look like it's coming from your google number. Of course everything that used to work with your cell phone still works exactly like it did before as well. The free minutes and mobile to mobile issue is a larger one. Basically it depends on a whole bunch of variables, but when you think 'em all through and apply them to whatever your particular cell plan covers, it makes sense. If you have Verizon --> Verizon free right now, then if you use the Google Voice dialer to call from your Verizon phone to the Google access number, then no, it wouldn't be free. You're no longer dialing a Verizon cell number. Same as if your friends call your new google number; it would be as if they were calling a normal (non-Verizon) number. But if you have one of those plans where you can add some unlimited numbers, all you really need to add is the google access number and your own google number, then any outbound call you make with the phone is free. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

July 30th, 2009, 07:33 PM	#15
noche_caliente ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Kim Location: mundo de ensueño Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): '08 250 Posts: A lot.	I got my invitation yesterday as well - seems pretty fun so far __________________________________________________ Progrip tank pad, blue rim stripes, blue Pazzos, Roaring Toyz lowering kit, Puig DB in dark smoke, Cortech sport tail, super mini tank, and saddlebags, OES swingarm spools and Intuitive frame sliders

July 31st, 2009, 01:48 PM	#17
M-Oorb ninjette.org sage Name: Matt Location: South East Florida/Rutgers University Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): 2008 250r (Fastest Color) Posts: 914	So im trying to figure out how to be able to hear and read my voicemails from my cell phone on google voice. Alex, I dont see any place on google voice to allow me to forward my unanswered calls to google voice...mind pointing me in the right direction? __________________________________________________ Pictures of my ninjette plus...

July 31st, 2009, 10:09 PM	#18
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	On your cell phone, you should be able to muck around in the menus to find out where things are being forwarded for unanswered calls, busy calls, etc. When you find it, there is already a number in there. That existing number is your current cell company's vmail access number. Write it down, in case you decide to change it back later. Enter your Google Voice number into those fields on your cell phone, so if your cell receives a call, and you don't answer it, after a few rings it gets forwarded to your google voice number. The on your google voice account, uncheck your cell phone from default forwarding, so once a call gets to google voice it doesn't forward it right back to your cell phone. If you have all phones unchecked on your account, every call will just go immediately to voicemail, which is what you want in this case. To check your voicemails from any phone, you can just call your own google voice number and press * when the message starts. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

August 1st, 2009, 04:54 PM	#19
M-Oorb ninjette.org sage Name: Matt Location: South East Florida/Rutgers University Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): 2008 250r (Fastest Color) Posts: 914	Well figured out the voicemail thing but I ran into my first issue today, or I should say my girlfriend did. I have my cell phone linked on google voice but I havent given out my number to anyone yet. Havent blocked any numbers on google voice or anything like that. So my girl friend goes to call me today, via speed dial so its the same number she always calls, and it says the number has been disconnected. She calls two more times and it still says that. Finally, on the 4th try, it goes through. Weird... __________________________________________________ Pictures of my ninjette plus...

August 1st, 2009, 09:48 PM	#20
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	If you have your cell phone forwarding to Google Voice, make sure that you don't also have your Google Voice forwarding right back to your cell phone. It will cause random behavior, including dropped calls and weird error messages. You need to uncheck your cell phone (and every other phone) in that Phones tab, so anything that is forwarded to the Google Voice number immediately just goes to voicemail. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

August 1st, 2009, 10:39 PM	#21
DarkNinja52 ninjette.org sage Name: aj Location: New York / PA Join Date: Jul 2009 Motorcycle(s): Red 09 Ninja 250r aka Sheila (RIP), Red '10 Ninja 250r aka Sasha (Sold), White '13 Ninja 300 (To be Purchased) Posts: 855	looks cool, im gona check it out, expect a ton of probably very obvious questions.. thanks guysss __________________________________________________

October 8th, 2009, 01:06 PM	#22
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	Google Voice was just expanded to include Hawaii and Alaska! Link for more info... __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

October 8th, 2009, 09:36 PM	#23
DarkNinja52 ninjette.org sage Name: aj Location: New York / PA Join Date: Jul 2009 Motorcycle(s): Red 09 Ninja 250r aka Sheila (RIP), Red '10 Ninja 250r aka Sasha (Sold), White '13 Ninja 300 (To be Purchased) Posts: 855	my friend said theyre allowing users to send invites to friends, but i dont think he's right. Any one know? __________________________________________________

October 9th, 2009, 02:51 AM	#24
CZroe CPT Falcon Name: J.Emmett Turner Location: Newnan, GA Join Date: Apr 2009 Motorcycle(s): '08 CP Blue EX250J, '97 unpainted EX250F, 2nd '97 unpainted EX250F (no engine), '07 black EX250F Posts: A lot.	Can I use this to have a SoCal number for my Atlanta-area cell phone? I have a feeling that they might frown on it as some kind of location spoofing. I don't want to change my cell service because I expect to be back in GA before too long.

October 9th, 2009, 05:45 AM	#25
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	You can choose any phone number from anywhere; location doesn't matter. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

October 9th, 2009, 08:49 AM	#27
g21-30 ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Sam Location: Northern Virginia Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): Ninja 250R 2009 Posts: A lot.	Get an invite here: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googlevoiceinvite/

October 27th, 2009, 09:51 AM	#28
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	Minor feature update for Google Voice today, you can now use your own existing number for the service (as long as it is a mobile number). Using it this way doesn't give you all of the features that are available if you use a new number, but it does give a chunk. Primarily, 1-box voicemail with email transcription; no more need to check vmail on a cell and for a google number; it's all integrated. More info here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/...-existing.html Also, I've got a few invites left so if anyone needs a google voice account, just PM me with your preferred email address and I'll shoot one your way. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

October 27th, 2009, 03:06 PM	#29
CZroe CPT Falcon Name: J.Emmett Turner Location: Newnan, GA Join Date: Apr 2009 Motorcycle(s): '08 CP Blue EX250J, '97 unpainted EX250F, 2nd '97 unpainted EX250F (no engine), '07 black EX250F Posts: A lot.	Nice.

November 17th, 2009, 10:16 AM	#30
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	Another minor improvement to that integrated voicemail from cell numbers. Before all it was really doing was forwarding from your cell to your google voice number, so it rang all of your other phones and then went to voicemail if they didn't pick up. So it was 8 or 9 rings before vmail picked up if someone called your cell. They added an option so it can go straight to voicemail after it rings your cell the normal amount of times, so it seems even more seamless. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

May 16th, 2010, 12:21 PM	#31
CZroe CPT Falcon Name: J.Emmett Turner Location: Newnan, GA Join Date: Apr 2009 Motorcycle(s): '08 CP Blue EX250J, '97 unpainted EX250F, 2nd '97 unpainted EX250F (no engine), '07 black EX250F Posts: A lot.	I believe that I first submitted an invite request over a year ago and I still have nothing. It looks like they are now giving them to anyone with a student email address ending with .edu. Australia.edu gived free edu addresses but GV is for USA only, so it might not work. I'm trying but they say that I am low priority because I didn't donate, so I'm STILL looking for an invite. I still don't have a local number here in San Diego (using Atlanta area code), so it's badly needed.

May 16th, 2010, 02:30 PM	#32
noche_caliente ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Kim Location: mundo de ensueño Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): '08 250 Posts: A lot.	I have 3 invites - PM me __________________________________________________ Progrip tank pad, blue rim stripes, blue Pazzos, Roaring Toyz lowering kit, Puig DB in dark smoke, Cortech sport tail, super mini tank, and saddlebags, OES swingarm spools and Intuitive frame sliders

May 16th, 2010, 08:13 PM	#34
gogoKawi ninjette.org sage Name: Dre Location: DMV Join Date: Aug 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2014 Ninja 300, 2008 ZX6, 2011 Ninja 1000 Posts: 622	Google voice is the best telephone service I have ever used. I've had it for almost a year. No problems what so ever. Call quality is good. The SMS and voice messages sent to email is fantastic. The voice transcription can be a bit suspect. But, it's still helpful. The only thing that worries me is that it's free, from a monetary standpoint. Nothing is free! Even though Google says it doesn't read your SMSs or listen to your voicemails, I know they are using that data. I just hope that I never find out what they are doing with it. Regardless, it's still great. If you can get it, by all means do it.

May 16th, 2010, 10:33 PM	#36
250Rocket ninjette.org member Name: Rob Location: Montreal, Canada Join Date: Apr 2009 Motorcycle(s): '09 Ninja 250R Posts: 171	I've wanted it since it came out. It would be killer paired with my Android phone but FML it's not available in Canada. __________________________________________________ Back on the road again Season 2010 Dam it feels good!

June 23rd, 2010, 12:12 PM	#37
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	Google Voice is no longer invite only; it was opened up to everyone yesterday. link to details No information on expansion outside of the US as of yet, but it has to be coming at some point. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

December 1st, 2011, 08:09 AM	#38
dubojr1 ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Jason Location: Jacksonville, Florida Join Date: May 2010 Motorcycle(s): 09 Ninja 250R SE, 07 Honda CRF230F, 06 Honda CRF150F Posts: A lot.	Is there a way that this would provide free home telephone service. I'm looking at getting rid of my land-line and the cost associated with it but I still have a teenage son that gets home from school before me so he would still need a means of calling out. __________________________________________________ 09 250R SE: Paying it forward one post at a time! Don't forget to add yourself to our Member Map

December 1st, 2011, 11:37 AM	#39
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	Somewhat. Google Voice can now be linked to Google Chat virtual phones, which means you can dial out directly from your computer. So with a headset (or if the computer has decent microphone / speakers available), you can call out to any US number for free if you're sitting in front of the computer. But to my knowledge, there is no easy way to hook it up to a standard telephone system to allow it to both ring and call out by directly using Google Voice and not a telephone service of its own. If you're killing the landline just for cost reasons, but still want to use traditional phones in the house, definitely look into VOIP services. We have one through TMobile for $10/month tacked onto our normal cell bill, and it provides unlimited calling through standard phones that are plugged into their VOIP router on our network. Vonage and a host of others provide the same thing for much cheaper than a traditional land line. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)