We have so many ways to communicate nowadays. You can pick up your LAN home line; whip out your cell phone; or text from your blackberry. It can drive someone crazy to wonder what voice mail to pick up where. Now, Google Voice collaborates all of your phone devices all in one so that if you just go to one voice mail box to pick up all of your messages from different devices. Pretty cool! Also, the clarity and videoconferencing ability is supposed to be stellar. US calls are free and international calls comes with a small fee.
Is Google Voice just like Skype? A resounding yes! But, Skype has a big community, and a loyal one, so Google Voice will have to pull away Skype subscribers to make it successful. The service will be released in a few months, and phone devices for the service has not been publicized yet. The tech setup and computer service of it should be easy just like Skype. Time will tell if this Google service will be able to take over the phone carrier world.
