Google Voicemail…

My iPhone 2G seems to be on its way out. It’s been acting up a bit lately, taking longer and longer to do things. It may be that I’ve got too many apps, or perhaps it’s that I really haven’t sync’d it since my desktop computer died. Add to that failing battery life and I’ve got a problem. I’m not due for an upgrade till December sometime and even then it doesn’t look like I’m going to be able to afford a new phone so…
What’s a boy to do?
Well I may have an old phone around somewhere. I can’t find it at the moment, but I know I was going to lend it to someone about six months ago, so it’s around. But it doesn’t have cool, iPhone-like, voicemail. Enter Google Voice.
It seems they’ve just started to allow you to port your own phone number over to GV. That’s great, but I want both my GV number and my “real” number. And voila! They allow that sort of too.
I now have switched my iPhone voicemail over to GV. That means I know longer get to use the cool data driven iPhone version; I get to use the cool data driven GV version. I’m testing it out now.
If you have GV (or a GV invite) you can give it a try too. The non-GV number version doesn’t have as many features, but hey, I remember a time before cell phones. Here’s a link to Google’s page on GV vs non-GV numbers.

Aloha!