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[jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Jarod Wilson)]

On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:

>> From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [mailto:discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On Behalf
>> Of Mark J Dulcey
>> 
>> better. The REAL dealbreaker for me was their dysfunctional voicemail
>> system; the command keys were dead while a message was playing so you
>> had to listen to the entirety of each message before you could delete it.
> 
> Actually, while in a message, 1 is rewind, 3 is forward.  If you hit 11 it
> jumps to start, and 33 jumps to end.  So instant delete of message would be
> 337.
> 
> But I use Google Voice anyway, so I don't care about that.
> 
> This is straying pretty far from the subject title, but GV is definitely one
> of the best things about Android.  Depending on how you configure it, if you
> want this, you just install GV app, and for all intents and purposes, your
> GV number completely replaces your mobile number.  All your inbound/outbound
> calls are seamlessly routed through your GV account.  If you have a
> non-unlimited text plan, that can really save you, but if you have unlimited
> text (as I do), there are other reasons I care about this.  Because when I'm
> at home or in the office, or at my family's houses out in the woods of Maine
> with no coverage...  I set GV to simulring wherever I happen to be.  So I
> can answer on landline quality...

Just for the sake of clarity, most of this GV functionality is not
unique to Android. You can do the bulk of the same things on multiple
mobile platforms.

http://www.google.com/mobile/voice/


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Jarod Wilson
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