Any idea why Hangouts won't work on Firefox?
Google to reportedly kill Voice, integrate it into Hangouts
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Re: Google to reportedly kill Voice, integrate it into Hangouts
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
> they're now doing the same for Gmail/Web as it's moving to Hangouts. Moving? Hasn't this been the case for the last two years?
I'm referring to this: http://gmailblog.blogspot.de/2013/05/try-out-new-hangouts-ex... It's still opt-in, at least for me.
Huh. Yeah, it just showed up for me one day and I continued ignoring it.
Re: Google to reportedly kill Voice, integrate it into Hangouts
#73The most useful feature of Google Voice to me is the voicemail transcription. It's not perfect, but it's good enough it saves me from having to listen to the voicemail about 90% of the time. There are plenty of other voip/call forwarding services, but are there any that duplicate that functionality?
Sendhub.
Re: Google to reportedly kill Voice, integrate it into Hangouts
#74Hey All, definitely check out SendHub as a Business Replacement for google voice. It has all of the same features (and plenty GV doesn't). In my opinion SendHub also has better apps and a way better web interface. Also, I'm a Co-Founder here at SendHub. So if you have any questions on getting this to work please drop us a line. (ryan@sendhub.com)
Any update on when MMS is coming?
I'll pay for it for personal use when that gets implemented.
Re: Google to reportedly kill Voice, integrate it into Hangouts
#75Ugh, I hate that SMS is conflated with Hangouts as it is. It causes notifications for work-related chat to get mixed in with notifications for personal text messages on my phone. Can anyone suggest alternative SMS clients for Android?
I've been using "Hello" and it's quite nice as a basic / super-simple SMS app. Very minimalist, though.
Re: Google to reportedly kill Voice, integrate it into Hangouts
#76The most useful feature of Google Voice to me is the voicemail transcription. It's not perfect, but it's good enough it saves me from having to listen to the voicemail about 90% of the time. There are plenty of other voip/call forwarding services, but are there any that duplicate that functionality?
It's not what you're looking for necessarily, but I'm a Grasshopper user, and am quite impressed with their voice mail transcription as well.
Re: Google to reportedly kill Voice, integrate it into Hangouts
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am actually in Canada, so I use Bell (This is the plan: http://www.bell.ca/Mobility/Cell_phone_plans/iPad_data_plans... ). I guess it's actually usually around $20 (sometimes I don't go over the 10MB plan if I am on Wifi lots). This is the best I could find for something in Canada. Let me see that article when you are done! If I move to the US I'll be looking to try the same thing there. Edit: I am looking at Bolt.…
Thanks for the link to Bell. We're adding a catalog of data-only plans around the world and tutorials about how to get them to the Bolt site. And I agree about phone numbers. They should just be the IP addresses of communication. But nobody's developed a good-enough DNS equivalent (yet). We still all rely on a local cache of numbers in our phones' address books.
Cool! I have also heard of a few other related things:
http://www.fongo.com/ (And I thought there was another one out of the Waterloo area but can't find it, maybe it was this. )
https://angel.co/signal-mobile
Ya, exactly. When I meet someone. Why not be able to just start typing their name and add them that way. If they change their number it can be updated automatically so I have the new one.
Re: Google to reportedly kill Voice, integrate it into Hangouts
#78As more and more of these get GPlused, the more repuslive they are become. Among all the IM apps out there, I think hangouts sucks the most. More than the fb messenger. 2-3 years back, a lot of people I knew were using gtalk. Infact that was the default IM. We use watsapp now, or fb in case we don't have a number, but not hangouts. This massive transition clearly happened during the gtalk to hangouts change and I don…
gtalk is still the default IM in pretty much everyone I know from different social circles. Even fb messenger during work hours I tend to see pretty much everyone in gtalk while fb is very sparse. And don't get me started on whatsapp, I don't know a single person who uses that, and nobody seems to even be aware what it is when I ask around. I guess they all have different use cases. I for one have been and will stay with gtalk.
Re: Google to reportedly kill Voice, integrate it into Hangouts
#79The most useful feature of Google Voice to me is the voicemail transcription. It's not perfect, but it's good enough it saves me from having to listen to the voicemail about 90% of the time. There are plenty of other voip/call forwarding services, but are there any that duplicate that functionality?
I’ve used VoiceCloud (http://www.voicecloud.com/) for the last 5+ years. Would not go back to regular must-listen-to-your-3-minutes-of-rambling voicemail for a second!!
Re: Google to reportedly kill Voice, integrate it into Hangouts
#80Hey All, definitely check out SendHub as a Business Replacement for google voice. It has all of the same features (and plenty GV doesn't). In my opinion SendHub also has better apps and a way better web interface. Also, I'm a Co-Founder here at SendHub. So if you have any questions on getting this to work please drop us a line. (ryan@sendhub.com)
How do minutes and texts work when all of it redirecting to another number? In other words, I already pay for unlimited text and several hundred minutes as part of my mobile phone plan. The vast majority of my communications are forwarded to that phone. Would I have to pay SendHub again for those minutes and messages if they were routed through SendHub?