Voicemail transcriptions work just as well as GV's did, and my text messages don't just vanish anymore. My number's been ported to T-Mobile on the $30 prepaid unlimited plan, and I switched back to an iPhone. Maybe they throw it out and go all-in on a new Project-Fi based VOIP/messaging system. Maybe this reincarnation lasts two years before management decides to refocus on Duo/Allo, or maybe it's six months. I have no idea how many missed social calls I had from people in college organizing social lives via group texts that I never got, and they never knew I didn't get because there was zero indication on either end that it wasn't delivered.Īs far as I'm concerned, Google Voice is dead. MMS from AT&T and Verizon users, as far as I can tell, continue to disappear into the ether. When one of them tried to send you a picture, you'd receive it as an email attachment on your gmail account. As of late 2013, they "integrated" MMS support with T-Mobile and Sprint. Third parties would refuse to accept my phone number, or would accept it but couldn't actually send me messages. With the Hangouts integration instead of a real GV app, they apparently threw away the spam reporting/filtering (on voice and text) that had been one of its greatest features.Įventually I got fed up with the poor service. Then Google stopped developing the GV app and I switched from iOS to Android to get the Hangouts Dialer integration. I got started with GV back when carriers were charging $0.25/each to send or receive texts, and eventually paid Google $20 to port my old AT&T number into their system.
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