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What is the best Visual Voice Mail program? I havent used the stock Verizon app, but I think I want to give the concept a try.

Google voice!
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Absolutely Google voice! You can still use your existing number if you just want to use the voicemail.
YouMail is also great and I used it before I had an invite to Google voice.
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I didnt want to use GV. I think I remember somewhere that GV is using up minutes without making calls.

That ain't true, if u want visual voice mail GV is so the way to go.
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I use Yap voicemail. It records all messages and transcribes them so you can read them. Its not always perfect, but enough that I can understand who is calling and what they want.
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Google voice.... its free! And integrates

Wifi on American Airlines flights

Thought this might be of interest to some people.
Yesterday I was flying American Airlines and the plane that I was on had Wifi. When I opened up my web browser on my Xoom, I saw that it was about $10 for the flight. I didn't want to pay that, so I closed my browser, but left my Xoom connect to Wifi. About 2 minutes later, Google Voice goes off saying I had a text message. I opened it up and replied. Come to find out, Google Voice worked fine without paying for the service. I was able to send and receive texts and listen to voicemails. I then wanted to find out what other apps worked. Gmail was the only other app that worked fine. The Google Market would let you search for apps and read descriptions and such, but would not let me install apps.
So the next time you are on American Airlines, you can get text messaging and gmail for free.

I have 5 AA flights next month. Interesting.

How are people using Google voice on the xoom?
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RadDudeTommy said:
How are people using Google voice on the xoom?
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It's become my preferred texting device, especially since eliminating my phone data plan and switching to a "standard" phone. I use Google Voice and the speech to text translation all the time and hardly ever send a text from my cell phone.

How do you enable voice for text support. Right now all I see is voicemail forwarding. Thanks
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smith3jk said:
How do you enable voice for text support. Right now all I see is voicemail forwarding. Thanks
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you have got to find the app. My Xoom is a complete phone with GrooveIp and Google Voice for sms my Wifi only Xoom has its own number and everything...Its a beautiful thing

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How are people using Google voice on the xoom?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=984111

Texting using Wifi

Does anyone know or can recommend an app the lets you send/receive SMS & MMS with the Thrive over Wifi?
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I have been using Heywire for sms. It does not do mms but it is excellent for sms. The person you send the message to doesn't need to have Heywire installed.
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you can try texttab. What it does is connect thru Bluetooth to your phone, and receives any SMS your phone gets and sends them to your thrive. Which you can reply and send on your thrive once your paired up.

TexTab worked awesome on mine! I absolutely love that program. Thanks for the head's up on that app. Definitely worth paying for it...

I have google voice and I have loved being able to text from any browser, including the thrive's browser. Especially if you're on sprint for your mobile servce, I would strongly recommend setting up google voice.
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steven7590 said:
I have google voice and I have loved being able to text from any browser, including the thrive's browser. Especially if you're on sprint for your mobile servce, I would strongly recommend setting up google voice.
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Sprints decision to work in collaboration with google voice makes it this way. I have Sprint and love them for this. A friend of mine is having trouble figuring out how to send google voice sms from his Thrive since he is on TMobile tho.

I use DeskSMS, I started using it over month ago and the fact it actually syncs with my contacts on my phone rather they have Google Voice or any other service makes it IMO the best app there for texting over wifi without having to jump between phone numbers. Especially for those of us that didnt want to lose our MMS capability by completely syncing with Google Voice.

I tried DeskSMS for a little while and it works ok. I stopped using it because Google Voice Canadian numbers are still not available. Hopefully I will use DeskSMS again once Canadian Google voice numbers are available.
Rogers Wireless use to offer wifi calling and text for consumer however this option is no longer compatible with my current plan with them so I had to improvise.
I`ve also tried textplus which work very well and you can get a Canadian number by
paying a monthly fee.

firemedic624 said:
I have been using Heywire for sms. It does not do mms but it is excellent for sms. The person you send the message to doesn't need to have Heywire installed.
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HeyWire just got an update that now allows MMS.
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I am using google voice on all my android devices and computers. Most over wi_fi and all sync almost at the same time. Love the thrive.
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[Q] App for texting using tablet?

What is the best app out there for sending and receiving SMS text messages using your tablet?

sms sync tab text.. these are two that i have tired both work. Not used them in a while so might work better now with updates to them.. can do bluetooth or must be on same wifi network. .
Also if you are tethered you can use google voice or yahoo messenger to text to and from phone numbers. Groove ip as well and grove with google voice is awesome to make Phone calls from tablet.. There are so many out there you will have to try and find what works best for your liking and style.

I would recommend using SyncSMS

I would recommend Google voice and talkatone, as the latter requires a Google voice number. Talkatone incorporates both WiFi calling and SMS texting, while using only Google voice allows only texting over WiFi.

I've been trying out Tablet Talk lately and it seems to work well.
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jtc276 said:
I've been trying out Tablet Talk lately and it seems to work well.
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Same here... Tablet Talk is awesome!

I use mighty text. I am not sure about the other apps, but this app uses your own phone number, and there is an extension for the chrome browser for a computer.

SyncSMS
I think I like SyncSMS the best. It seems to be the best of the suggestions.

Google Voice + Groove IP apps so you can make/receive unlimited calls within North America along with unlimited SMS text for free over WIFI. Just pay the one time fee for the Groove IP app or use free equivalent.

I really like tablet talk
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Another one here for tablet talk, been using it for a while now with little to no issues.
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adamhlj said:
I use mighty text. I am not sure about the other apps, but this app uses your own phone number, and there is an extension for the chrome browser for a computer.
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Play store shows this one as incompatible on my device. -.-

trixnrice said:
I would recommend Google voice and talkatone, as the latter requires a Google voice number. Talkatone incorporates both WiFi calling and SMS texting, while using only Google voice allows only texting over WiFi.
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+1 to Google Voice. I use Google Voice's app for texts, and GrooveIP for calls.

I'm using mySMS it's free and works good. Give it a try. I have it set on my cell phone to run in background but not to notify or pop up. I then am able to use Handcent as my normal SMS application.
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Do any of the texting apps mentioned here actually give you your own #, so that actual mobile users can text you? (I'm only aware of Google Voice doing this)

Using tablet talk and it's working great.
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Using syncsms here, just make sure you have free space in your drop box and you're fine!
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adamhlj said:
I use mighty text. I am not sure about the other apps, but this app uses your own phone number, and there is an extension for the chrome browser for a computer.
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Mighty text is awesome they just neeed to have a native app and it's perfect the call from phone feature is sexy.

Do any of these apps support mms too?
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phishn said:
Do any of these apps support mms too?
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Yes the Mighty one does

Vonage App question

I heard people are using this to get unlimited minutes over WiFi.
People also said that it works to call anybody.
Is that true? The app says the person your calling also needs the app.

yea, I tried it and same thing, other people have to have the app to use it. uninstalled
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If I make a Google voice number, can I forward it to multiple phones with groove IP?
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Vonage App
The people you are calling do not have to have the Vonage app. If it's in the US or Canada you can call them for free. When you first setup the app, it asks you to confirm your phone number so that it can spoof it when you place the calls. The people you call will have whatever number you confirm. I listed my Google Voice number so that way when I call out through the Vonage app, it shows the Google Voice number. I will note that it didn't send the SMS but it's not a big deal as you can click the "Request a Call" button to verify instead.
The free calls to phone numbers in US & Canada is apparently a limited time thing (sort of like the free Google Voice calls but those have so far been extended annually) so after that is when both users would have to have the app to make free calls. At the moment you get 3000 free minutes a month to use so it's worth trying out.

So Google voice isn't going to remain free?
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mk92595 said:
So Google voice isn't going to remain free?
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google voice will remain free for 2013.

Then how much will it cost?

I wonder if google voice will turn into a carrier?