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Ringing in 2017 With Updates to Our Google Voice Apps

posted by on Tuesday January 31 2017, @05:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-new-from-google dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

When we first introduced Google Voice our goal was to create "one number for life"—a phone number that's tied to you, rather than a single device or a location. Since then, millions of people have signed up to use Google Voice to call, text and get voicemail on all their devices. It's been several years since we've made significant updates to the Google Voice apps (and by several, we mean around five ;)), but today we're bringing a fresh set of features to Google Voice with updates to our apps on Android, iOS and the web.

Source: https://blog.google/products/google-voice/ringing-2017-updates-our-google-voice-apps/

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  • (Score: 1) by charon on Tuesday January 31 2017, @07:15PM

    by charon (5660) on Tuesday January 31 2017, @07:15PM (#461377) Journal
    Huh, maybe my being a tech skeptic will pay off for once. I don't have a smartphone or a web cam, so I cannot accept video chat calls. Which is a good thing because I would never want to.

  • (Score: 2) by Celestial on Tuesday January 31 2017, @07:22PM

    by Celestial (4891) on Tuesday January 31 2017, @07:22PM (#461381) Journal

    Yeah, video chat is really only good for very long distance loved ones, IMO. People you actually only see IRL once or twice a year IRL that you'd rather see much more often. Other than that, no thanks.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Tuesday January 31 2017, @08:04PM

      by VLM (445) on Tuesday January 31 2017, @08:04PM (#461402)

      Yeah I think kids are the wedge for that technology that grannie loves seeing the grandkids and give the kids 20 years of video calling and in a couple decades "everyone loves video, everyone has always loved video".

      Oh and in a peak of ridiculousness my son and his friends video game "together-ish" using video calls holding the camera up to the TV to show each other their accomplishments, sort of like a virtual LAN party. I suppose consoles and big screen TVs are harder to carry around than lan party computers were back in my day. And my daughter and her friends dance and sing along to music over video calls. Both situations, when I discovered them, were total WTF at first but I guess thats life in 2017.

      Decades ago telephones cost a lot and cost per minute and were audio only but we're raising a generation where free video call everywhere all the time is just what they do, and that Gibson quote "The street finds its own uses for things" is timeless. A virtual LAN party to play multiplayer minecraft, I never would have imagined it, but the kids invented it all by themselves, my only interaction was to WTF when I first saw it.