Google voice + Gizmo
Google Voice has been much discussed with its impending widespread public release. I gave it a whirl over the weekend, and it seems quite nifty. To tie in loosely with my last post about novel methods of reducing mobile phone costs, it seems you can use Google Voice and Gizmo to make free PSTN-terminated calls.
Gizmo is a free VoIP client, which can be installed on a variety of PC and mobile platforms and provides you with a SIP number. Google Voice can be directed to forward and even connect calls to this number. Since domestic calls made through Google Voice are free, we seemingly have a neat system of free calling here.
Some instructions can be found on a Google forum, though some users in the thread report problems connecting the calls to Gizmo. Very interestingly, a blogger describes using this method to make free calls on his Android phone over the 3G/EDGE network.
Perhaps free-as-in-speech VoIP nirvana is not as far off as I had feared…
Tags: gizmo, google voice, mobile VoIP
December 11th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
I have a Linksys PAP2T ATA adapter at home which is configured as per the instructions given on http://www.exoticpages.info. I connected my regular phone handset and it works great. I am very pleased with this free home phone service. It even has speed dial features. My cell phone minutes are no longer used now. I am no longer worried about using my cell phone minutes during daytime because I always have some minutes left on my rollover. Basically I got my free home phone service through this Googlevoice+gizmo5 feature.
I am sure google voice is the next generation phone service for USA.