Android only: Google Voice allows detailed rules for people calling you. But your outgoing Google Voice calls? Not so much, unless you've installed Voice Plus, which lets you choose contact groups to call with or without your Google Voice number.
Voice Plus is nothing more than an extension of your Google Voice settings. You choose whether you call with your cellphone's carrier-supplied number or your Google Voice number by default. You choose whether certain area codes are always called with Google Voice—handy for those who live on the border of international areas. And you can choose certain contact groups, set up in your Google Contacts, that are always called by Voice, and others always called by a landline.
So the use you'll get from Voice Plus depends on your ability to set up your contacts with distinct Voice/non-Voice numbers, but that's a big help to those who grow tired of toggling Voice on and off for individual calls. Voice Plus is a free download available in the Market; you can get to it directly by scanning the QR code at left.
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Good idea. I'm gonna try it out.
I'm not sure I've been using my google voice to its full potential.
Kat, I have to admit....I have been using Google Voice since before it was Google Voice...and this app is what makes it finally perfect and complete. My biggest frustration was always having to "decide" who should know my GV number, and who gets my old number. Typically, the only people I call with my "regular" number are my wife and my son, because we get the free minutes because we are both on AT&T. Everybody else, I want to call my GV number. I especially want them to TEXT me on my GV number, because it is free. After using this app for the last couple of weeks, I must say that it is probably the missing link to perfection...but I might be overstating that just a bit. :)
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