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Timely article, as I recently switched to Sprint with an iPhone (last Sunday actually, after 4 hellish years with AT&T) and a few days ago realized what Arringt

by timjahn 15y ago

Timely article, as I recently switched to Sprint with an iPhone (last Sunday actually, after 4 hellish years with AT&T) and a few days ago realized what Arrington did - I could get full Google Voice without a new number! So far, it's been working well. I mainly just use Google Voice for the voicemail transcriptions (which actually, are insanely useless - they more or less provide a general vague idea of what the person is calling about). One bug I noticed last night was my wife texted me but it got caught in Google Voice, as I guess I didn't have SMS forwarding turned on. We'll see if toggling that fixes it.

paul9290 15y ago
I would be interested in hearing if you received the text and where your received it on your iPhone. Did you receive it within the iMessage app or only through the mail app? Prior to having iPhone and Sprint, I had iPhone and ATT. I used ATT # for voice and Google Voice for text. I loved & am missing being able to reply to my texts thru Gmail. I didn't do the same set up with Sprint because I want to continue to use Siri for texting and I'm pretty sure she only uses iMessage?
- timjahn 15y ago
  As an update, I disabled the Google Voice Sprint full integration because it was eating my texts (Google Voice would catch them but never forward them on to my phone, despite that option being enabled), as well as not notifying me of missed calls. Now I'm trying to go back to Google Voice Lite (to have just voicemail transcriptions emailed to me) and it appears there's no way to do that. I might have to drop Google Voice altogether it seems.
  - paul9290 15y ago
    Thanks for the information. I don't see how Google Voice can work with an iPhone? At least not as well as it does with an Android device and or forgo using iMessage - use iPhone email client to send/receive text messages. Though if you forgo using iMessage then Siri won't be able to send text messages for you.

by timjahn 15y ago

paul9290 15y ago

I would be interested in hearing if you received the text and where your received it on your iPhone. Did you receive it within the iMessage app or only through the mail app? Prior to having iPhone and Sprint, I had iPhone and ATT. I used ATT # for voice and Google Voice for text. I loved & am missing being able to reply to my texts thru Gmail. I didn't do the same set up with Sprint because I want to continue to use Siri for texting and I'm pretty sure she only uses iMessage?

timjahn 15y ago
As an update, I disabled the Google Voice Sprint full integration because it was eating my texts (Google Voice would catch them but never forward them on to my phone, despite that option being enabled), as well as not notifying me of missed calls. Now I'm trying to go back to Google Voice Lite (to have just voicemail transcriptions emailed to me) and it appears there's no way to do that. I might have to drop Google Voice altogether it seems.
- paul9290 15y ago
  Thanks for the information. I don't see how Google Voice can work with an iPhone? At least not as well as it does with an Android device and or forgo using iMessage - use iPhone email client to send/receive text messages. Though if you forgo using iMessage then Siri won't be able to send text messages for you.