November 23rd, 2009 
Aman 
One mobile number forever, One mobile number for life: Google is progressing towards becoming the centre of our global communications and is about to launch its new version of grand central, Google Voice in the next few weeks. Google Voice will have raft of features and the good feature of previous version i.e. grand central are also included in it. At present Google is only sending the invitations for Google Voice and will take it into functioning soon. Google Voice will allow users to maintain one number for life time and maintain that number diverting it to any number that you may currently be using, home phone, work phone, mobile, hotel room etc. It has a lot of features that will grow exponential moving forward and will enhance existing capabilities of your phone number. With Google Voice, you can access your voicemail online, read automatic transcriptions of your voicemail, create personalized greetings based on who is calling and make cheap international calls. You can make phone calls check your emails from this number. You can centralize all of your contacts and store and recall messages convert messages to text. Integrating the web and your phone is also easier than ever. The features which are added to older version are transcripts, SMS, international calling, and conference calling.
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Free of cost: The most important point which no one can neglect is that it’s free of cost from Google. Well it will not be launched in all countries now but we can hope that it will not take much longer time to launch it worldwide. If Google Voice is a success then this service will make Google centre of your communications system, effectively giving them control and data on everyone you communicate with on every channel giving them a multitude of ways of monetizing the system. Those people, who are already using Grand Central can upgrade it to the new Google Voice just by click the upgrade instructions at the top of their inbox to get started. Google Voice service will be more beneficial with the new number as it will provide many additional features such as letting you record customized greetings for each caller, switch phones in mid-call, listen in on voicemail while a caller leaves a message, and block unwanted callers; it also offers lifetime voicemail storage, access to voicemail via web, phone, or e-mail, and call announcement and handling.
It will launch soon: The basic idea behind providing this one number is although wireless number portability has taken some of the sting out of switching carriers but there are still some constraints with moving out of state and with landline home and office numbers tied to geographic regions. If you use Google Voice then you can give out a single phone number to all your friends and relatives and they can call you on your single number wherever you are. Hope to get it launched soon in India too.
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