You might have heard about Google Voice. If not, it is simply the best way to manage your calls. When you get registered, you will get a new phone number. That’s right, a new phone number for free. If you configure it correctly, you can make your mobile phone ring when your friends call that Google Voice number and make your office phone ring when your colleagues try to call it.
There are plenty of features that make you go wow. You can block people from calling you by just marking their number as spam. It’s just like clicking spam button on your mail. You can listen to your caller before taking the call and send them to voicemail if you don’t want to discuss that topic at that moment. If you thought visual voicemail on iPhone is cool, Google Voice has voicemail transcription. Just can read you voicemail like an email.
One of the features that is less noticed or not many people know is free US dialing. You can call any number in US for free with Google Voice. You can call other country numbers also. But you have to pay. If you have the contact numbers of your friends in your Gmail contacts, dialing them is easy. Google Voice shares contacts with Gmail. Just login to your Google Voice account and dial your friends.
If you have an iPhone, check these apps. They all allow you to use and manage Google Voice on your iPhone. You don’t have to login to your Google Voice on the web to dial your friends.
I use Google Voice to screen unnecessary calls. If someone asks me for my phone number and I don’t trust that person, I just give them my Google Voice number. This way they won’t know my real phone number. If I don’t see any problem, they can keep using that number to call me. But if I don’t like to talk to them anymore, I can block their number anytime.
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