Hey chaps. As some of you may remember from my 3G/Wifi post last week, I am doing a serious fact finding mission about the electronic communications in our household. You may also remember my post about porting the home number to Tmobile pre-paid and that works well too though I doubt we are going to make it one full year with the $100 prepaid card. The wife and girls are still adjusting to using only when absolutely necessary. Another thought about the wifi phones was using an IM/VOIP app on the device to allow non cellular use via my home wireless network.
So here is my next train of thought. Eventually I would love to port the number over to some sort of VOIP service with and analogue telephone adapter (ATA) that would all me to use the great Panasonic cordless set I have. I wanted to use Gizmo5 but that has been bought out by Google and will be added to the Google voice department. In the meantime the service is not available. Would someone hazard a guess as to how Google will eventually integrate that service with their Voice division? If I read things correctly, Voice is service that allows migration of all your devices to one call in number and Talk is like MSN Messenger, AIM. etc. Where does that leave Gizmo5 or Skype or whatever? What really is the difference between VOIP "phone" service as opposed to talking live through an instant messenger client? As you can clearly see, I am eventually heading toward one ruddy number to give out for everything but would certainly like to have a good map of how to get there.
Regards, Todd
So here is my next train of thought. Eventually I would love to port the number over to some sort of VOIP service with and analogue telephone adapter (ATA) that would all me to use the great Panasonic cordless set I have. I wanted to use Gizmo5 but that has been bought out by Google and will be added to the Google voice department. In the meantime the service is not available. Would someone hazard a guess as to how Google will eventually integrate that service with their Voice division? If I read things correctly, Voice is service that allows migration of all your devices to one call in number and Talk is like MSN Messenger, AIM. etc. Where does that leave Gizmo5 or Skype or whatever? What really is the difference between VOIP "phone" service as opposed to talking live through an instant messenger client? As you can clearly see, I am eventually heading toward one ruddy number to give out for everything but would certainly like to have a good map of how to get there.
Regards, Todd