Anyone waving? Want to wave with me?
Pervert.
Get me a damned invite & I will.
Though I'm still not 100% sure what Wave is supposed to be.
I don't see the point.
BTW Brazen, I downloaded Google Voice for my HTC Hero the other day & set it up to handle all my outgoing international calls (not that I make many on my cellphone, but it's nice to have the convenience).
Came in handy when my cable internet connection died last night & we couldn't call out through our regular phones since they are VOIP through said connection. Wife needed to call home to Argentina to talk about gauchos or llamas or whatever they jibber-jabber about, so I had her call from my Hero. Since Google Voice was set in the dialer as the default for outgoing international calls, all she had to do was dial the number-- it routed through my cellphone carrier's data network as a VOIP call & the call quality was surprisingly good. The cost was $.03 per minute, which is a very small price to pay for being able to make international calls from my cellphone :)
So anyway, my experiences with Google Voice so far: :thumbsup:
Do you have an extra invite, Brazen?
What is it for?
Its...a new take on IM?
Quote from: Tyr on October 31, 2009, 06:44:43 AM
What is it for?
Its...a new take on IM?
From what I read it's a realtime mix between IM, forum posting, email.
Hence it will be totally useless in the work environment where many people are unable to even organize their incoming files accordingly.
This is the thing I've heard of where you see what people are typing as they type it rather than when they press send?
When I heard of that it sounded....scary.
Quote from: Tyr on October 31, 2009, 06:50:45 AM
This is the thing I've heard of where you see what people are typing as they type it rather than when they press send?
When I heard of that it sounded....scary.
I'm guessing that will be: optional.
Quote from: Tyr on October 31, 2009, 06:50:45 AM
This is the thing I've heard of where you see what people are typing as they type it rather than when they press send?
When I heard of that it sounded....scary.
Why would anyone want that? Things you write will be even more less-thought through than it is now.
Quote from: Lucidor on October 31, 2009, 08:05:20 AM
Quote from: Tyr on October 31, 2009, 06:50:45 AM
This is the thing I've heard of where you see what people are typing as they type it rather than when they press send?
When I heard of that it sounded....scary.
Why would anyone want that? Things you write will be even more less-thought through than it is now.
I wouldn't want it either.
The idea though is it makes it more like a natural conversation than having to wait for the other person to press enter and the annoyance of seeing 'xxx is typing' and all that.
Quote from: Tyr on October 31, 2009, 02:12:29 PM
Quote from: Lucidor on October 31, 2009, 08:05:20 AM
Quote from: Tyr on October 31, 2009, 06:50:45 AM
This is the thing I've heard of where you see what people are typing as they type it rather than when they press send?
When I heard of that it sounded....scary.
Why would anyone want that? Things you write will be even more less-thought through than it is now.
I wouldn't want it either.
The idea though is it makes it more like a natural conversation than having to wait for the other person to press enter and the annoyance of seeing 'xxx is typing' and all that.
That's what phones and VOIP stuff is for. People want their time to think.
Quote from: Tyr on October 31, 2009, 06:50:45 AM
This is the thing I've heard of where you see what people are typing as they type it rather than when they press send?
When I heard of that it sounded....scary.
ICQ did that over 10 years ago.
Didn't seem to get very far then. :P
The only thing that looked cool was the real time translation.
The other stuff is just old ideas rehashed.
The real-time typing thing was supposedly so you "don't have to look at '#### is typing...' before you could start responding. It sounds like it's currently enabled by default, but can be disabled with a check. I'm curious about it, but I'd need an invite before I could get in and start picking the features apart- all I've seen so far is the demo video from Google IO. Would like an invite if someone's got one.
spiess, I got your invite... but this Google Voice shit ain't free? Or is there only a cost when placing an international call or something?
Quote from: Caliga on November 04, 2009, 07:57:33 AM
spiess, I got your invite... but this Google Voice shit ain't free? Or is there only a cost when placing an international call or something?
I think international calls are the only thing you have to pay for. What most people are using Google Voice for is call routing & voicemail (apparently their visual voicemail is pretty good). Once you have your new Google Voice phone number, you can give people that one phone# & then decide where the call forwards to. You can also use Google Voice as your voicemail, and you can even set Google Voice to, for example, "intercept" a call made to your home phone & forward it to your cellphone.
I'll take an invite.
Any chance of getting an invite?
I don't have a Wave invite, buy the first one who PM's me with their gmail address gets my last Google Voice invite. It's a free phone # with voicemail, if nothing else.
Wags gets it!
Trying it now. The transcription doesn't seem to work.
Haven't used the transcription thing yet. Hopefully it's at least better than Vonage's.
I've got wave :ph34r:
I've got wave, but I haven't found any use for it yet. The fact that google is restricting invites doesn't really help since it just means I have fewer people to wave with.
We need to get a D&D game going over wave. Second Edition preferably.
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on November 08, 2009, 01:51:04 PM
We need to get a D&D game going over wave. Second Edition preferably.
That might work...
That's what Wave is there for.
THAC0!
When AC mattered.
So, a bit late, but I finally joined this too. What's the point?
Quote from: Viking on November 08, 2009, 04:46:51 AM
I've got wave, but I haven't found any use for it yet. The fact that google is restricting invites doesn't really help since it just means I have fewer people to wave with.
Wasn't it lovely when g-mail was on an invite only system? Back when facebook had yet to let in most of the trashy universe...
I have 8 invites pm me if you want them.
Quote from: Viking on November 08, 2009, 04:46:51 AM
I've got wave, but I haven't found any use for it yet. The fact that google is restricting invites doesn't really help since it just means I have fewer people to wave with.
My thoughts are the same though I don't have it (I just don't see much of a reason to get it)