Google Voice is a service that enhances the existing capabilities of your phone numbers. With it, you can access your voicemail online, read automatic transcriptions of your voicemail, create personalized greetings based on who is calling, make cheap international calls, and more.

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I did found the option of importing the addressbook and its there on their blog too as to how to do it. Nevertheless I tried importing them in Gmail. Does the same thing.
@Josh Hoffman

Do not Disturb is still available in The Settings. I found it. Please check again.

Also an important note to ALL those people who are using GC outside US.
You will need an US IP address to get in the Google Voice 1st time if you are migrating from Grandcentral because it will show “Google Voice is not available in your country yet” and stuff.

Please make sure You have a US IP address when You access Google Voice for the 1st time. Once the setup and the switch over is done, you can login normally.

You omit the point in which I say that the service is not of Google, but google plays the role of a distributor in EU. In Spain we do not need distributors because already we have operators of telephony who give us this service and improve. Clear that after everything the first one they prove everything in EU and then they were entering on the Spanish market, and here already we are very tired of Google.

The excitement over this press-release/hypefest is proportionate to the commentators ignorance of Unified-Communications.

Take away the Freebie from Google and the integration with Gmail, and there really isn’t anything unique, to other parts of the world, with services from “Personal Number Company” to J2, Wildfire (from Orange) TO Callwave, and et al.

THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES.

Separately, the idea of a single company knowing a users Browser-History, Their Email context/intelligence, and Now your full Call-History (social network inferred intelligence of who you’re calling) and actual Conversation-Tracking (like the email, and talk will be getting processed/recorded) will make Google more powerful and user-knowledgeable than any facist government.

Kind regards,

Shakir Razak

Companies like GotVMail, RingCentral, Phone and Ifbyphone – to mention a few – are thriving in growth because their singular focus is bringing reliable, feature relevant voice services to their audiences. These companies are very good at serving small businesses, which is not yet a clear target of Google Voice. And lets not forget that beyond brand loyalty, increasingly we have ‘user-interface loyalty’, with the latter being much harder to break.

The biggest one is when you want to dial out using VOIP you have to dial two numbers – once to your Google voicemail #, push another button to get a dial tone, and then dial the number you wanted in the first place.

Second downside (potential) is what monitoring/tracking Google will apply to this.

But the big feature I see the is the ability to direct calls by phone number to different voicemail boxes and/or set it so your phone won’t ring at all and go straight to VM for certain numbers.