GrandCentral is now Google Voice. I was able to get my beta account converted over to Google Voice account.
While the migration was manual which I kinda pooh-poohed. I had to export my GrandCentral contacts and import it into Google Addressbook, re-record my name and greeting and re-check my settings.
It would’ve been more of Google-like, if they had a big red button in the middle of the page saying “CLICK HERE” and an AJAX response saying “You are now on Google Voice”. There are only two other places I can think of that can make the user experience this easy – Apple and WordPress.
Google Voice definitely steps up and gives us a few more features now that it’s out of beta.
- SMS – Yey. Now I can get text spam on my Google Voice number. However, no international SMS yet possible (:smh:)
- Voicemail Transcript – Feature that transcribes voicemails and emails them! Very cool. Me like that.
- Conference Calling – eh. I have a bridge. But could be useful one day.
