Sprint / Google Voice integration coming Tuesday

[LER]

Google Voice and Sprint integration for everyone on Sprint looks to be launching on Tuesday (4/26/2011).

more info: Google Voice

I for one am looking forward to being able to use the GV features with my Sprint Cell#.

 

[LER]

based on a call I had with a Sprint Customer Care / Tech Supervisor, this is on a slow roll out, culminating with the Nexus S release (rumored to be 5/8/2011), and all Sprint folks should see it by 5/15/2011.

Some folks in other forums have gotten invites, but there doesn't appear to be a way to speed it up

waiting with baited breath for it to be on my GV account.

 

[LER]

It got enabled for my account today. So far, it's "interesting". We'll see how it goes over the next few days.

 

[LER]

Should be live for all folks now. If you have certain discounts you may not be able to get it.

 

[Ramy]

I have tried it and didn't really like it. I just use it as a phone number to give out so that I can block if I need to.

 

[LER]

With the Sprint integration, your Cell Phone # becomes your GV number. This makes it easy to use all the GV features and not have yet another telephone number. What I like is the call screening and the ability to ring multiple phones simultaneously. The VM transcription is "interesting".

So far, modulo a couple of timing issues, it's been good for my use case. YMMV.

 

[Ramy]

With the Sprint integration, your Cell Phone # becomes your GV number. This makes it easy to use all the GV features and not have yet another telephone number. What I like is the call screening and the ability to ring multiple phones simultaneously. The VM transcription is "interesting".

So far, modulo a couple of timing issues, it's been good for my use case. YMMV.

I have had that on Verizon for a while and I like the fact you can use that number to ring multiple numbers, but since I have had my cell number for so long I just use it for people I know and give the other number to everybody else.

 

[LER]

I like that I don't have to give another number to all my contacts, but can set call-screening up so that unknown's (not in contact list) are asked to say their name.

I get the best of both worlds.