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I bought a jailbroken iPhone and have been just using a iPad sim card in it for the last little while. This way I pay about $10/month for enough data to get talk / text and the ability to surf the net a lot cheaper!
Edit: Or maybe I will still be able to do this once it is integrated with +.
For people like me who follow this space closely, this is not news. And to be fair, the article doesn't really claim it as news. The Google Voice team was rolled into the Hangouts team long ago. The only thing they haven't done is roll the Google Voice app's functionality into the Hangouts app.
I don't understand why you'd roll all of your products into something that has a terrible user experience. I'm a long-time Google/Android user, and its just painful using Hangouts. I disabled it and switched to Telegram.
The monolithic Hangouts app suffers from a bit of a Jack-of-all-trades problem. It's pretty good at four things, but not great at any single one.
this move would be a prelude to the cancellation of voice (after it flounders in its new forced home): http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns (note google voice is the highest cancellation risk predicted)
Well, this kind of sucks. I use a Google Voice number that is associated with a Gmail account that I do not use for any other purpose (Hangouts/Talk or otherwise). It doesn't even have a Google+ account associated with it. It's nice to have single number that can ring all my lines. If/when this is killed, what's the alternative? (Article appears to be down/inaccessible for me).
Read the article. They are not killing Google Voice. They are rolling it into Hangouts.
Well, this kind of sucks. I use a Google Voice number that is associated with a Gmail account that I do not use for any other purpose (Hangouts/Talk or otherwise). It doesn't even have a Google+ account associated with it. It's nice to have single number that can ring all my lines. If/when this is killed, what's the alternative? (Article appears to be down/inaccessible for me).
Anyone know of alternatives? I bought a jailbroken iPhone and have been just using a iPad sim card in it for the last little while. This way I pay about $10/month for enough data to get talk / text and the ability to surf the net a lot cheaper! Edit: Or maybe I will still be able to do this once it is integrated with +.
The issues for a LONG TIME Voice user: 1) Voice Mailbox - What Now? 2) My mobile phone number IS my Google Voice Number (Sprint) 3) Ring at multiple locations (Isn't valuable to me anymore) 4) The google.com/voice web page is a lifesaver for searching through my text, and voice mail. (Most Needed Function)
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I don't understand why you'd roll all of your products into something that has a terrible user experience. I'm a long-time Google/Android user, and its just painful using Hangouts. I disabled it and switched to Telegram.
I agree with you, which is why I started Bolt (shameless plug: https://bolt.co ). We are just getting started on our messaging app, which will be separate from our voice app due to the completely different use-cases. The monolithic Hangouts app suffers from a bit of a Jack-of-all-trades problem. It's pretty good at four things, but not great at any single one.
Well, this kind of sucks. I use a Google Voice number that is associated with a Gmail account that I do not use for any other purpose (Hangouts/Talk or otherwise). It doesn't even have a Google+ account associated with it. It's nice to have single number that can ring all my lines. If/when this is killed, what's the alternative? (Article appears to be down/inaccessible for me).
I ported my old Voice number to voip.ms too.
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Read the article. They are not killing Google Voice. They are rolling it into Hangouts.
... which will then require you to log in with a Google Plus-upgraded account. I have two Gmail accounts, and can't use the hangouts feature on one of them (in the browser or through their client) without enabling Plus.
The resistance to adding G+ to accounts seems Sisphyean. Larry Page clearly envisions a common integrate identity systems across the product tree and I don't think anyone is going to stop him.