Google Voice continues to surprise me in good ways. A few features that I’m digging:
1) One phone number rings multiple phones. I want to answer the calls on my work phone, but my cell phone has my address book and thus the functioning caller-id. Now I can see who’s calling by looking at the cell, but still pick up the work line.
2) Keypad-less dialing. It feels weird at first to answer my phone to call someone, but I can search my address book online and click “call”. Google calls me and then connects me to whomever I clicked on. Now I don’t have to punch in 10 digits which I invariably get wrong on the first attempt.
3) Transcribed voicemail. I much prefer to read a voicemail than listen to it. It isn’t perfect, but good enough to get the idea. And it emails the transcription too, so I don’t even need to “look it up”.
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