What's cool about GV?
Here's a few of the run downs for ya'll
go to the web and look at your options and set it up there ..
you can do such things as have anyone that calls your GV number ring your home, cell and office phone ... all at the same time ... OR say from 8am-5 pm ring your office & cell 5pm-9pm ring the house and the cell ... 9pm-8am ... go to voice mail ..
how about the ability to listen in WHILE the caller leaves the VM ... and if you decide you can join the call or just let the caller finish and hang up ...
What if you happen to be a sales person and you give out your GV # ... you can direct the calls to your phone lines at the company you work for ... but ... if they let you go ... you re-direct said calls to any phone... keeping your contacts ..
Having a single number for everyone forever ... no dealing with number portability of phone companies or dealing with contracts that haven't expired
Letting Sales people go to VM and seeing what the call is about before wasting your time listening to a VM for screen wipeys ...
How about the fact that when someone calls you through your GV # and you answer on your desk phone ... and the call continues on but you have to leave the office and can't leave the call ... Hit # and every phone you have registered with GV rings ... you answer on your cell ... hang up your office/deskphone and walk out (your caller none the wiser you just transferred them)...
How about caller ID specific greetings ... the ability to have a greeting for your wife and a different one for your boss ...
How about the ability to call someone through GV and never give out your cell phone # ...
How about the ability to block calls from the number you just called using your GV# and didn't give your home or cell # to?
Any of these features sound cool ... or useful ...
oh yeah and .... whats the cost again ...???
GOOGLE ROCKS!!!
An excellent list. A few more additions:
Have all of your voicemails and text messages in one location that you can refer back to should the need arise. No longer losing voicemails a few weeks after receipt on Verizon's voicemail system or losing your text messages when your cache becomes too large or you switch phones.
Have your entire call log, which you can annotate with notes about the phone call-- particularly useful for businesses
Text message for free. No longer give Verizon 20 dollars a month for texting...
Forward voicemails to others via email-- particularly useful for businesses and project management.
Download voicemails to computer
Embed individual voicemails in blogs, etc.
Record incoming calls and have recordings stored for as long as you want online-- comes in handy for customer service calls, interviews, conference and client calls, etc.
Host conference calls
Temporarily have calls selectively forwarded when on vacation-- have work related calls forwarded to a co-worker, family calls to a relative, etc.