Oh what a joyous day it has been. At some point when I was working on this blog, my service for my cell phone went out. I rebooted the phone which didn't do anything, then tried it in my old phone, nothing still. So I decided to wait and see what would happen at work (maybe the cell tower is down?).
At work, absolutely nothing changed. So after a kind of long shift, I get home, eat and called up T-Mobile. After getting to technical support from customer support, the guy said that it the SIM card I was using was a legacy card that has a limit on how many times it can register (to a cell tower) and that I would need to stop by a T-Mobile store to get a new one.
So after heading over there (and waiting about 20 minutes), the guy set up the new SIM card and gave it to me. I stuck it in and booted up the phone, and I instantly got service (the tech guy said it would take two hours or I just heard him wrong and he could have said that it could take up to two hours) double checked the connection and everything and went on my merry way home.
So there's got to be some kind of catch right? Yep. Supposedly I have a new voice mail, but I don't have one in my T-Mobile voicemail box, and the one in my Google Voice is an old one (I actually don't use my T-Mobile one since I can't get service in my friend's basement).
Well, since I'm on the issue. Google Voice is two (maybe actually three) things essentially, which is a "phone" provider and voicemail provider (with the latter being free); I obviously use the voicemail feature.
It has a similar style to Gmail, and it has it's own listing for each voicemail that you get. It also (attempts to) transcribe each voicemail, so you actually don't have to listen to it. But this is based on how clearly the person speaks, and I'm also assuming it can't transcribe non-English languages at the moment.
So why am I using this over my provider's? Because of my service as I previously mentioned. Since I don't get service in his basement, I can't get voicemails or calls. This is where Google voice shines. Since my friend has internet, I can keep a tab open for Google Voice and check it every so often to make sure I don't have a voice mail.
Another great feature I use is that you can have different greetings for each group. So for your work group, you can have an ultra-professional greeting; for family, you can have something something relaxed; for friends, something upbeat; and for anyone not in a group (say unknown numbers), you can have a greeting that in incomprehensible. Of course the catch is that you need to make sure you add new contacts into the corresponding group or they might hear that incomprehensible greeting.
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