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Lori
February 19, 2010 at 12:33 am
I have/use Google Voice for my photography business. I love most things about it.
1) I never have to give my real number. Only 4 people have that number: Verizon, my husband, and two VERY close friends.
2) I have a record with pseudo-transcripts of incoming calls, messages, texts, etc.
3) I can block telemarketing and other spam.
et cetera
My only complaints are:
a) there is a tiny lag in the conversation. I had to get used to this and stop assuming it was my turn to talk again. It’s a little like talking to someone overseas used to be. Perhaps other VOIP services are the same.
b) occasionally, the system hiccups. I’ve had some funky un-connected calls at times. They are occasional and infrequent. It’s worth being in the beta group for the other features (and more) listed above.
I less-than-the-number-3 Google Voice.
Lani Rosales
February 19, 2010 at 12:42 am
I’ve never had any hiccups but I haven’t used it *that* much.
Sidenote: I have your real number, yay 🙂
Jordan
February 19, 2010 at 5:44 am
(I’ve been using the heck outta GV (thanks to Lori) since relocating. It allowed me to keep the number my past friends & clients have while getting a local number as well w/out adding a line to my cell. It’s GREAT!)
Lori! Thanks for bringing the delay to light! I’m always catching myself talking over my clients & now I know why! I’ll just try to remember to pause before responding.
Thomas Johnson
February 19, 2010 at 7:37 am
GV is awesome technology which we are just starting to shake out. The one and only negative is the privacy issue. Do you want every word of your phone conversations sitting on a Google server especially since they now have opened their servers to the NSA due to the Chinese Communists hacking them? Everyone should answer this before they expose them selves and everyone they talk to to this.
Scott Cowan
February 20, 2010 at 11:09 am
I have one observation that I wish Google would address about Goggle Voice.
It takes way too long to receive the call. 7 to 15 rings on the callers end before it asks for their name. I am concerned that many people will not wait that long and will simply hang up and call another Realtor thinking I am simply not paying attention.
I have found no settings in the control panel to adjust the number of rings.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
BawldGuy
February 20, 2010 at 11:47 am
Transcripts of every single one of your private conversations? Are you sayin’ folks know this and still use it? I’ll keep my next thought to myself, as it’s terribly offensive.