Lost In Madison

Late last night I received an email from the Google Voice Team:

Subject: You’ve been invited to Google Voice
From: Google Voice [voice-noreply@google.com]
To: josh@lostinmadison.com

You are invited to open a free Google Voice account. To accept this invitation and create your account, visit
*Activation link… sorry can’t show you that*

If you haven’t already heard about it, Google Voice is a service that makes using your current phones much better!

Here’s what it offers:

• A personal phone number that rings all of your existing phones when people call
• All of your voicemail in one inbox with unlimited online storage and free voicemail transcripts sent to your phone and email
• Low-priced international calling to over 200 countries and free SMS
• Other powerful features like the first phone spam filter to protect you from unwanted callers, the ability to ListenInTM on your voicemail messages while they are being left, conference calling and more

To learn more about Google Voice before registering, visit: http://www.google.com/voice/about

Please note that Google Voice is only available for sign up in the US.

We hope you enjoy Google Voice,

The Google Voice Team

So off I went to set up my account and give it a try. My immediate reaction was “hmmm no 800 or 888 numbers, so I guess I will still need to keep my Phone.com account for that..”. I guess that is not to bad, but what’s a business supposed to do if they want an 800 number? Don’t worry I am not selling phone sex here, just looking for a real solution for my life. So far I have not seen any “Premium Features” but maybe the option of an 800 or 888 number will be one someday. I did notice that once you set your Google Voice phone number, if you wanted to change it you will be charged a one time fee of $10.00, I picked a decent number though so I am ok.

I would suggest watching the about videos Google has set up for this service located at http://www.google.com/voice/about if you are interested in this service. The first video shows you what the service is about, you should watch it. You can sign up for an invite there as well if you want one. I will let you know more about what I think of the service as I use it more.

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