tons of features, and so far they say its all FREE!!!
Its the obvious Grand Central "single point of contact" or UM on steriods.
*Complete merging of voice calling, SMS messaging, and email
*Follow-me to all your phones
*Voicemail to text
*Rules based routing
*FREEEE outbound dialtone to US and possibly Canada, + low international rates.
How it works - you get a new phone number from google - I know sounds like a pain, but they are obviously trying to get you to take the great plunge of commitment (if you truly use it for an extended period you will probably be torn bleeding to abandon it).
Then you abandon all your other numbers as far as the world is concerned and only provide people with your new "G-number", and pledge your allegance to "G".
Next use your googler number to forward to your cell, home, office - where ever you may roam it will ring them all at once or in other methods.
When you get vmail - it actually goes to text in your email or you can call into your "G-number" and check it.
If you call into your "G-number" it will give you the option to dial back out to any US number for free, or of course theres always the Jabber PC clients, or of course Asterisk/Freeswitch jabber module will then let you call out google from any PBX.
Vonage is going to mess their dividends!!!!
EDIT 4/15/09: Well it seems google has found some insecurities in their service and have shut off all SIP access to google voice, this is a real downer for SIP PBX users like myself, but everything still works as advertised through their application. So far there are no plans to remedy this, hopefully they will, but in my thinking it is only to their advantage to lock users to their platform - duh - how will they see adwords.
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