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/
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2017, @07:55PM
I don't have a cell phone and a couple of times a year it's convenent to send/receive a few text messages (assuming these are SMS?) While I'm probably doing this the hard way, for the little that I need it Google Voice is acceptable. I've used it (in Firefox) for many years and the texts are generally reliable. Sometimes it seems like they take a few hours to appear, although the delayed messages have the original sending time stamp.
If the person texting to me includes a photo, that is sent as an attachment to my linked Gmail account silently, no special notification -- so I have to manually poll both Voice and Gmail to make sure I see what's coming in.
Haven't noticed any changes with this recent upgrade except Google is now trying to migrate me to "Hangouts" whatever that is...