Google Voice out of the test phase, now available

27th June, 2010 by adina
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On June 22, 2010, Google took its Google Voice out of the test phase, making it available to all residents in the USA. The service has been invite-only until now; it is normally free and offers its users a virtual phone number, which can be associated to regular phones, as well as to the Internet. Calls have the possibility to route to one or even more real-world devices; the voice mail linked to the number has a basic speech-to-text transcription. Even if this service isn’t true VoIP, it can be used for making low-cost calls over long distances.

Google’s new Voice service is currently available on various mobile platforms; it is also a native application on the Android platform. The recent objections of Apple have downgraded Google Voice to an HTML5 application on some devices, preventing incoming calls in the background.


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