Google Voice is Here With Free Calls and Text to USA and Canada- We Give You 5 Reasons Why You Should Use Google Voice

After so much hype about google voice, there is no chance that you are still unaware of it. However, we have experienced that even though this is one of the best offerings from Google, some people are still not aware of its true potential. Moreover, one of our avid readers recently emailed with a question and the answer to that question was Google Voice. Therefore, today we bring out the salient features of Google Voice so that next time you have a say when your geek friends talk about it. Even if you know that Google Voice lets you make free calls there is much more to it

Your cool number gets all the calls

First thing first, if you are going to sign up for Google voice you better get yourself a cool number. Google Voice lets you choose a number of your choice. For instance, someone named John can get a number that reads 123-456J-OHN, which is in fact the number 123-456-5646.

When GV asks you to search for a number try to find the most creative number you can get. Once you have your cool number with you, you can route all the calls to this number to other phones that you have. For instance, when someone calls you on your GV number you can forward the call to other numbers such as your cell phone or Home phone number.

The best part is you can make them both ring at the same time. On top of this you can use advanced routing to forward calls from certain numbers to certain number. For instance, calls from your secretary should only get forwarded to your personal cell phone.

If you have a plan where you get free calls to and from a number, you can set your Google Voice number as one of the A list numbers and make free phone calls to US and Canada.

Calling in to listen Voicemail is thing of past

Don't you just hate listening to voicemails? Personally, I am optimistic and I believe that whoever it was, leaving me a message in my voice mailbox, will call again. That might cost you dear sometimes, especially when it was a potential buyer or employer.

Google voice solves this problem by transcribing your voice mail and send it to your inbox. You can just read it as a regular email or even text rather than listening to your voicemail.

Screen your calls

If you were rich enough to hire a secretary that we talked about in the first section you would feel better. Since, you cannot afford it you can now use Google Voice to screen calls.

Whenever someone calls you can make them listen to a nice greeting and then ask the caller for her name. Then, GV will call you and tell you the name of the caller. You can then decide what do you want to do with it. If the user is someone from your address book, GV will automatically know who is calling rather than asking the user to record the name.

Text for free

Are you sick of those $5 unlimited text plans? You do not need them anymore. You can use GV to text anyone for free. If you want to forward the text messages to you as email or as text to your cell phone that is possible too.

You can use the Web interface for texting or you can even reply from any phone of yours without giving your personal number out.

So much during the conversation

Sometimes, you feel you could record the conversation in the middle. This is possible using Google Voice now. You can start or stop recording a call in the middle of the conversation without interrupting the call. If you notice that your cell phone battery is dyeing, you can transfer the current call to another number. This way you can continue the conversation on other phone that has some battery left.