Until recently if you had to sign up with Google Voice you needed to select a new number (not all area code were available). But now you can just keep your own number and use it with Google Voice. This makes a perfect sense for anyone who doesn’t wants a new number and think its a big hassle to change and propagate a new number to his/her known ones.

The prominent features of Google Voice are:

Use Google Voice with your existing number and get:

• Google voicemail: voicemail like email
• Voicemail transcription: read what your voicemail says
• Custom greetings: vary voicemail greetings by caller
• International calling: low cost calls to the world
• Notifications: read voicemail messages via email or SMS
• Share voicemails: forward, embed, or download voicemails

Add a Google number to get these additional features:

• One number: a single phone number that rings all your phones
• Free SMS: send, receive & store text messages online
• Block calls: send unwanted callers straight to voicemail
• Record calls: record phone calls and store them online
• Conference calls: join several people into a single call
• Screen callers: hear who is calling before you pick up

Watch these videos to know more about Google Voice.

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