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From the article: "Google will push full VOIP usage on these, meaning no voice/sms plans needed at any carrier. Voice calls will go through Google Voice on Dat
by tghw 17y ago
From the article:
"Google will push full VOIP usage on these, meaning no voice/sms plans needed at any carrier. Voice calls will go through Google Voice on Data SIM cards and will provide unlimited free voice calling. And SMS is replaced by unlimited free Gtalk."
No one said Google Voice is only VOIP. I have it, I use it for non-VOIP calls. The article just says they're planning on doing all of the voice calls over IP. Considering there aren't data carriers that have affordable unlimited free calling, that's the only way you could get "unlimited free voice calling".
- eli 17y agoThe article is wrong.
- tghw 17y agoDo you have sources? Specifically, they're saying you don't need a voice plan at all, just data, so they'd be using only VOIP, which Google Voice supports. No where are they saying that GV is only VOIP.
- grandalf 17y agobut GV is not the google phone, right? So fine you can use google voice on your old phone, but this is a separate fact from the question of whether the google phone uses data/voip for voice calls.
- stanleydrew 17y agoCorrect on both counts. But the Nexus One will be able to use data/voip for calls as well as a regular wireless calling plan, just as my Android Dev Phone 1 does now.
- grandalf 17y agoInteresting. Out of curiosity, do you (the user) notice a difference in the UI or call quality when it makes the call over data/voip vs as a regular wireless call? (on the blackberry google voice app it only supports regular calls, which are all done with forwarding, callbacks, etc.)