I rarely send SMS/text (txt) messages using my cell phone. In fact, I rarely use my cell phone except
when making calls while in my car. Now
that I have a (slow) 3G smart phone, I will occasionally use Google search to
look up information, but certainly not in the same fashion as when I am at my
PC with a 40 MBs DSL connection with a giant ergonomic keyboard and a 32”
monitor. Search on my smart phone is
more of a way to kill time than it is to get information beyond an address or
phone number.
I have had a Google Voice number dating back to when it was GrandCentral in 2007. At the time, I was working customer service
at a small VOIP phone company.
GrandCentral provided a free product that somewhat matched up with what they
charged $18.95. As a stock-vested
employee, I was hoping for a killer IPO.
That IPO did not happen.
I do use Google Voice to send txt messages from my PC to a few of my friends’
cell phones when they are either not answering the phone or out of talk-minutes
while still able to txt.
I am grateful for the plethora of web-based tools such as Google Voice
that have changed the face of telecommunication from a simple POTS line with no
voice-mail, call-waiting nor caller ID when I was a kid to the feature rich
environment that it is today.
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