Google Voice and Sprint…IT WORKS!!
If you have a Google Voice account but can’t use the visual voicemail feature on Sprint due to the current $.20 per minute charge for call forwarding take heart!! According to Google sometime THIS month Sprint is doing something that will eliminate this problem. Details are scarce but the guess is that Sprint will either eliminate the charge altogether or at least for the conditional call forwarding required to do visual voicemail. Since employees aren’t charged for call forwarding I was able to set it up and fully test it on Sprint using the Palm Pre and IT WORKS beautifully!!!
I currently have it set to send a me text and I also use Gdial Pro from the Sprint app catalog. I actually now have 2 ways to READ my voicemails and other than it having trouble figuring out names (for instance Lynn Croad was translated as link road) It is very accurate and timely. There is a lively discussion about Google Voice here:
http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=184712&highlight=google+voice
Token22 on November 5th, 2009 3:36 pm
I called sprint today to ask about the removal of the 20 cents call forwarding.The rep I spoke to said it should be happening on Nov 8th. Lets hope they don’t push this back lol. If anyone has heard a similar date or a different please post and let me and others know. Thanks
ninjahaiku on November 6th, 2009 9:19 am
This is exciting, I’ve been waiting. On a side note, the Google voice transcription is often hilarious, and usually brightens my day. Ah, what a sad world I live in…