Originally posted by: deputc26
Originally posted by: abaez
I'm not sure what you want to do. You want to give two different numbers to different people and have both numbers ring on the same phone? I'm not sure cell phones can do that?
A GV accounts works seamless with Android. You could give your regular cell number to personal contacts, and your GV number to business and have GV forward to your regular cell number. Should work fine.
This is sort of what I'm thinking can't google voice function as VOIP and thus I could use that for a biz line that only works when the phone is online and have a different message box etc.?
Google Voice is NOT a VOIP service. It's more of a "routing" service. If you make a call via Google voice it basically calls your phone and makes the connection - you still use your phone minutes.
However, you could do what you wanted to do with Google Voice.
Your choices would be to 1) leave your cell number as your personal number and give out your Google Voice number as your business number and have Google Voice forward calls to your cell. If you want to make a business call from your cell phone you use the Google Voice connection service so that the person you're calling sees your Google Voice number on their caller ID (so long as you set that in the Google Voice options). The problem with this is that now you have two different places to check voicemail. Personal voicemails would be in your cell phone provider-based voicemail, and your business voicemails are in Google Voice.
I'd think the better way to do it would be to 2) just give everyone your Google Voice number. You can have different voicemail messages based on your contact lists. So you can set it so that if someone in your family calls your Google Voice number they hear one message, "Hey everyone, I can't take your call, love ya!!" - whatever - and then set it so that if someone in your business contact lists calls they hear a more business-centered message, "You've reached Joe Smith, unfortunately I am unavailable . . .", and then a more generic message for unknown numbers (not in your contact list) or contacts you don't have in a specific group.
This is what I'd like to set mine up as, but having an internal extension that everyone at work dials me through already would make the whole business aspect redundant to me so I've just been putting off delaying giving out my Google Voice number as my new regular number to my friends. Personally, I think the transcribed voicemails are worth it to use the service regardless of whether you do any of the fancy message routing stuff.
