Wow, thanks for all the info Michael. Bunches to think about.
Appreciate your help a lot.
Whit
Michael Potts wrote:
Common misconception.
Google voice is a service to sit between your phone and your caller.
You call my GV line, which then, based on the rules set up, calls my
phone. Google optionally fakes the caller ID to make it look like the
original caller is calling you, not Google.
Other than on Google's internal end, there is no VoIP. It calls you
over the standard phone system and uses your minutes. Google Voice
apps available for smartphones simply intercept. Your outgoing calls
and send them through Google to make it look to your callers like you
are calling out through your Google Voice number. This uses your
minutes as well. ( it is done one of two ways, depending on the app:
3rd party services send a web request to google which then calls you
back and then calls your other party. Google official apps call some
special unique phone number that Google has assigned to every one of
your contacts. Your phone actually calls this pseudorandom number
which, when you call from a number registered to your Google Voice
account, tells google who to call. They have an astonishingly large
number of these numbers in various under utilized area codes. )
Google recently purchased a company called Gizmo5 that provided SIP
translation for Google Voice. The service has been closed for
registrations for a while, but I am lucky to have an account and I use
it with an ATA box to a cordless phone in my house. I still have to
initiate the call from the web site, as its the 3rd party call in
method, but it works well most of the time.
Google Talk's phone call feature (inside Gmail) is quite unrelated to
Google Voice. It calls out from a different number and will only
loosely connect with your Voice account. You can add it as a phone in
Voice, but it's not perfectly seamless and it's obvious to me they are
not highly interconnected. You can't make a call inside the Google
Voice webpage either. The web page is quite simple and is mainly for
account management and sending SMSes out and in from your Voice number.
Google's purchase of Gizmo5 will hopefully lead to more official SIP
and VoIP features, but right now those features are simply hacks for
those who happened to get a Gizmo5 account before they went into lockdown.
Michael Potts
On Oct 8, 2010 7:04 PM, "Whit Hansell" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone has used google voice w. linux and what you
> think of it or have heard about it one way or the other.
>
> Just heard a brief bit about it on Clark Howard show.
>
> TIA
> Whit
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