For years, I used my Kindle + Google Voice as my portable “phone.” I’d get voicemails (transcribed) and text messages to my Gmail and could text back from ther

For years, I used my Kindle + Google Voice as my portable “phone.” I’d get voicemails (transcribed) and text messages to my Gmail and could text back from there. Gmail even had a lite version that worked quite well on the Kindle’s experimental browser. Fortunately, my needs for making/receiving an actual call on-the-go were nearly non-existent so it worked quite well. Was really sad when they pulled the plug on the free 3G.