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How reliable is Google Voice? I'm a little wary about switching my phone over considering my Sprint service has been rock solid so far.

• kanak 16y ago
  I haven't used the number porting feature, but I'm using everything else and have no complaints about it. I even got it to replace the features of my android (e.g. replace the default voicemail app with google voice's voicemail).
  • megaman821 16y ago
    Number porting works fine except that text messages take an extra 48 hours to start appearing after the number is ported.
• makeramen 16y ago
  every once in a while I'll get a call that doesn't ring my phone, but overall I'm very satisfied with the service
• jrockway 16y ago
  I have never had any issues. When I call people, I get them and can talk as long as I want. When I text people, they get my message. I receive calls and texts regularly and never hear, "hey, why didn't you reply to my voicemail / text". So I assume it works. The only problem I have is that I get two Android notifications for each text. One from the SMS app, and one from Google Voice. Not sure how to fix that.
  • lftl 16y ago
    On the Google Voice website there is a setting where you can disable receiving SMS on a certain phone.
    • jrockway 16y ago
      But receiving the SMS is what tells Google Voice to poll for messages.
      • ingenium 16y ago
        Not on Android. It's a push service. I've had the SMS disabled since I installed the Google Voice app.
• mey 16y ago
  I've used them as a proxy/redirect to my other lines, and generally I don't like the sound quality to my cellphone. SMS works well enough, at least within the limitations of the SMS system. If my cellphone wasn't already the one number to reach me at, then I'd be more interested.