Drop in and get a call from Santa
(Cross posted on Gmail Blog)
With the big day right around the corner, activity in the North Pole is hitting a fever pitch.
Two new groups of callers to help you manage your privacy
Google Voice helps you customize how you treat callers by giving you the ability to play a custom greeting for your parents or send your chatty neighbor straight to voicemail.
Many users have asked us for controls aimed at people who are NOT in their address book.
Google Voice expands to new markets
When we asked our users what features they’d like to see in Google Voice, we heard a lot of different answers. And we listened very closely to all of them.
Google Voice for Android, now with Ice Cream Sandwich voicemail integration
Since we launched Google Voice back in 2009, we’ve supported visual voicemail so you could open the Google Voice app, see all your voicemails with text transcripts, and play them on-demand.
Your Circles, now in Google Voice
To help make it even easier for you to organize your contacts, today we’re adding Google+ Circles to Google Voice.
Google Voice Android app - now with offline texting
Sometimes the times that we’re offline can be our most productive times. However, whether on a plane or out of range of coverage, it’d still be nice to be able to draft text messages.