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Port your number out of Google Voice

• snowwrestler 13y ago
  The Google Voice app for iOS has not been updated for iOS 7. The UI look and feel still matches iOS 6. As a happy Google Voice user, this makes me very nervous. I don't know how Google plans to make money on Voice and it doesn't seem like Google does either. It's looking like a product that is on the downslope toward being abandoned.
  • fossuser 13y ago
    Google has been frustrating with this for a while. Google voice has been ignored for a long time (the chrome plugin is also quite buggy/broken on mavericks). Voice solved the texting problem with a cross platform whatsapp/iMessage type solution years ago - when they bought gizmo5 I thought they were going to incorporate SIP calling too. Then when hangouts came out I was hoping they'd somehow incorporate voice into that. I'm not sure what the plan is for it, but it seems like nobody is actually on the project.
    • AceJohnny2 13y ago
      Rumors are Hangouts will finally integrate it properly soon: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/03/18/google-reportedly-plans-to-integrate-voice-into-hangouts-within-just-a-few-months/ http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/03/18/google-reportedly-pl...
  • devicenull 13y ago
    I've been worried about this for awhile now. Unfortunately, I haven't really found any other products that offer similar functionality. I'm unsure of what I'd do if/when Google Voice gets cancelled. I really only want two features, and it's hard to find something supporting both: * Abstract my number away from whatever carrier I'm using, while still having outgoing calls show up correctly * Allow sending/receiving texts via the web Any suggestions? Porting my number doesn't really help if there's no where to port to!
• deleted 13y ago
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