I'd be more interested if Google's official GV app gets approved. No offense to Sean, but I'd like to see what Google's army of developers can do with an official, approved app.
I love the idea of Google voice, but after more than a year of playing with it, I can't make the switch full-time.
1. No MMS support. WEAK.
2. No iPhone app (obviously changing soon...)
3. No support for extensions. So I can't get my work phone to ring.
4. Not 100% reliable. When I did have people call that number, I missed a handful of calls and voice mails....leading me to my biggest issue with GV...
5. It's a free service. You get what you pay for. There's no support line to call. If you have issues, all you can do is post an SOS on their message boards, and hope they read it and get back to you. My phone calls are too important to leave to chance like that. Say what you want about AT&T, but whenever I've had an issue, I call them up and get it resolved. That's what you get as a paying customer. I would pay a small monthly fee for GV to get access to support like that.
So for now, I simply use GV as a masking number. It's on my resume, website, personal business cards and social profiles to protect my cell #. I also give it out where I get my haircuts, oil change, dry cleaners, etc. Basically anyplace that stores my number for marketing or identification purposes.
For a while, I did use it as my cell phone voice mail (using the wonderful PushMail app). But after getting my iPhone4, I never set it back up, and forgot how cool and seamless visual voicemail is.
Bottom line -- GV is a cool "toy" and does have it merits, but it does have a ways to go.
I love the idea of Google voice, but after more than a year of playing with it, I can't make the switch full-time.
1. No MMS support. WEAK.
2. No iPhone app (obviously changing soon...)
3. No support for extensions. So I can't get my work phone to ring.
4. Not 100% reliable. When I did have people call that number, I missed a handful of calls and voice mails....leading me to my biggest issue with GV...
5. It's a free service. You get what you pay for. There's no support line to call. If you have issues, all you can do is post an SOS on their message boards, and hope they read it and get back to you. My phone calls are too important to leave to chance like that. Say what you want about AT&T, but whenever I've had an issue, I call them up and get it resolved. That's what you get as a paying customer. I would pay a small monthly fee for GV to get access to support like that.
So for now, I simply use GV as a masking number. It's on my resume, website, personal business cards and social profiles to protect my cell #. I also give it out where I get my haircuts, oil change, dry cleaners, etc. Basically anyplace that stores my number for marketing or identification purposes.
For a while, I did use it as my cell phone voice mail (using the wonderful PushMail app). But after getting my iPhone4, I never set it back up, and forgot how cool and seamless visual voicemail is.
Bottom line -- GV is a cool "toy" and does have it merits, but it does have a ways to go.