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Google Voice MMS for Sprint Users

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If you use Google Voice instead of your carrier’s texting, you’ve most likely know it’s missing MMS. You can send all the free text messages you want but one thing you can’t do is send pictures or videos. Google is about to change that as they are rolling out MMS support to Google Voice users.

For now, only Sprint customers are getting the capability to use MMS. This will soon change as Google is working with other carriers to bring MMS to their users. For the time being, this will only work if sent from a Sprint phone. In the current condition, any MMS received from Sprint customers will be forwarded to your email inbox, provided you’ve email forwarding setup in your Google Voice account.

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To Port or Not to Port – Your Number to Google Voice

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For those of you who have been contemplating whether to port your land line over to Google Voice or not, maybe this article from David Gewirtz over at ZDNet will help answer that question.

An excerpt from the article:

“For the past year, my wife and I have gotten used to using Google Voice for both our personal phone and business phone numbers. It took a while to get all the kinks ironed out, but as I reported last month, we’re finally happy with it.

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10 Tips for Supercharging Google Voice by Device Gadget

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Forum Post by mamaoyot from http://devicegadget.com/

Take your Google Voice experience from VoIP to VIP with these hidden feature

1. Calls within Gmail

Recently, Google made it possible to make and receive voice calls right from within Gmail-yes, you can use your Google Voice number without needing to be anywhere near a phone. To get started, log in to Gmail and locate the Chat box in the left-hand sidebar. You should see a new contact called Call Phone; click it.

A small box pops up on the right side of your Gmail window displaying a dial pad, and you may be prompted to download and install a voice plug-in. Then, from the dial pad, you can dial a friend or type in a name from your Google contact list, all without a phone in sight.

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Make calls from Google Voice App for iPhone

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Google Voice app for iPhone is available to download from the Apple App Store. To use the GV app, you’ll need an iPhone with iOS 3.1 or later and a valid Google Voice account. At this time, Google Voice is available in the U.S. and Canada only.

With the native app, you will have access to all major Google Voice features on your iPhone, like:

  • Cheap rates for international calls
  • Free text messaging to U.S. numbers
  • Voicemail Transcription
  • Display your Google Voice number as caller ID when making calls

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What is Google Voice

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In a nutshell, Google Voice is a telecommunications service that helps you manage and customize your phone, voicemail and SMS usage. By signing up with Google Voice, you can have one phone number that can access all of your numbers (home, mobile and work). While your number may change if you switch carriers, your Google … Read more