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KissLover · 11-23-2010, 12:01 AM

Anyone tried google voice or Line2 on their iPhone?

Any chance of using it for a hobby phone number?

Capt. Lincoln F. Stern · 11-23-2010, 12:10 AM

I think someone has tried the google phone l# app on iphone and mentioned it

here is the thread with the reply

http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?t=113698&page=3

mansfield · 11-23-2010, 09:40 AM

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Anyone tried google voice or Line2 on their iPhone?

The Google Voice app works very nicely on my iPhone.

cowboyfan2745 · 11-23-2010, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by mansfield

The Google Voice app works very nicely on my iPhone.

+1, works well on iPhone. Beats having to keep up with a second phone.

Nina Rae · 11-23-2010, 11:15 AM

+1 again. I've been using google voice as my "bat phone" number for quite a while now. It works really well. You can have it text a transcript of your voice mail to you, or select email. You can also have callers announce themselves before you answer to help decide whether you can or want to talk at that time. I'm loving it. Sooo much better than carrying around extra phones.

Rogue! · 11-24-2010, 11:28 PM

Yup it's a great app, but I've knowned to have missed few calls as they never rang.

Eccie Addict · 11-26-2010, 08:53 PM

If you use goggle voice can you make calls and the google number show up or does your original number show up?

cowboyfan2745 · 11-26-2010, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Eccie Addict

If you use goggle voice can you make calls and the google number show up or does your original number show up?

Using google voice, that number shows up when call or text.

Capt. Lincoln F. Stern · 11-26-2010, 10:26 PM

The way Google voice works with the Google App is it can be set so the phone dials using it as the phone number of record which will appear on the CID. The down side is it appears on CID as something different than a normal listed, unlisted or unknown phone #.

On a non smart phone you can still use it, but you have to call your google #, access the user menu, then give the command to dial, type in the # you want, and then it calls. What appears in the CID is "forwarded call"

Black Sedan · 11-27-2010, 09:49 AM

Be careful out there:

1. If you activate google voicemail on your cell phone: Your real cell phone voicemail is taken over by google voice (including for regular calls to your real cell phone number, you probably don't want to have your SO or boss greeted by "Hi baby, this is Big John"...

2. But If you don't activate google voicemail on your cell phone, and do not have call screening on: Google voice forwards callers to your regular phone voice mail, e.g. the provider/pimp gets a greeting with either your real phone # or real voice greeting. Oops!

Lesson: you had better leave that call screening on, and not activate google voicemail on your cell phone.

Capt. Lincoln F. Stern · 11-27-2010, 10:09 AM

Not quite the case, when you install the app it allows you to choose if its the primary dialer, or your original phone # is, or you choose at time of dialing.

Voicemails are not Affected. You can call your cell's main # and get its VM, then call the Google #.

That is how it worked on my Android #.

But by having a 2nd # to give out... your main number remains a secret. Your boss can call your main cell # but providers can call you back on the google # unless they state they won't do such. Some won't

Black Sedan · 11-27-2010, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Black Sedan

Be careful out there:

1. If you activate google voicemail on your cell phone: Your real cell phone voicemail is taken over by google voice (including for regular calls to your real cell phone number, you probably don't want to have your SO or boss greeted by "Hi baby, this is Big John"...

2. But If you don't activate google voicemail on your cell phone, and do not have call screening on: Google voice forwards callers to your regular phone voice mail, e.g. the provider/pimp gets a greeting with either your real phone # or real voice greeting. Oops!

Lesson: you had better leave that call screening on, and not activate google voicemail on your cell phone.

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Originally Posted by Spirit13

Not quite the case, when you install the app it allows you to choose if its the primary dialer, or your original phone # is, or you choose at time of dialing.

Voicemails are not Affected. You can call your cell's main # and get its VM, then call the Google #.

I don't think you get it, so I clarify:

I'm giving warning of two scenarios of settings with Google Voice that users need to be aware of that could expose identity information.

Two optional, not-the-default features are involved:
1. Using google voice as your voicemail system for your real phone #
2. Disabling the call screening feature and the effect it has on forwarded phone calls going to the real phone # voicemail

So don't do those things if you are using your main phone with google voice for hobbying.

Also, other things to be aware of that could compromise you:
Your phone bill, if it includes detailed billing, and even though your AT&T bill doesn't, you CAN get this information online from AT&T.
Depending on the setting of the google voice setting Caller ID incoming; incoming calls either show with their real caller id information or your google voice hobby #.

Either one could be very hard to explain, especially if she calls your google voice # to investigate and gets a interesting voice greeting. he he.

So better make sure the SO can't get to it.

Capt. Lincoln F. Stern · 11-27-2010, 03:57 PM

Its all a roll of the dice....
You do have to carefully set it up so the CID shows the google voice # instead of who it is....

and when you see your google voice # calling you, its HOBBY related..

Maximum4 · 11-27-2010, 10:36 PM

My advice, as a hobbyist, skip Google voice. Its way to easy to get wrong (for non-techies). Get a cheap hobby phone, paid for with cash, take the battery out when you are not using it.

Nina Rae · 12-02-2010, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Black Sedan

I don't think you get it, so I clarify:

I'm giving warning of two scenarios of settings with Google Voice that users need to be aware of that could expose identity information.

Two optional, not-the-default features are involved:
1. Using google voice as your voicemail system for your real phone #
2. Disabling the call screening feature and the effect it has on forwarded phone calls going to the real phone # voicemail

So don't do those things if you are using your main phone with google voice for hobbying.

Also, other things to be aware of that could compromise you:
Your phone bill, if it includes detailed billing, and even though your AT&T bill doesn't, you CAN get this information online from AT&T.
Depending on the setting of the google voice setting Caller ID incoming; incoming calls either show with their real caller id information or your google voice hobby #.

Either one could be very hard to explain, especially if she calls your google voice # to investigate and gets a interesting voice greeting. he he.

So better make sure the SO can't get to it.

I think more than one person is misunderstanding. I use this feature on my iPhone. I have voice mail set up, and when a call comes to my google voice number, it goes to google voice's voice mail if I don't answer. If a calls comes to my civvie number, it goes to civvie voice mail. I'm not a techie, and I set it up with no problem.