Google Voice + Android Phone:

[MianoSM]

1. Person calls you.
2. You don't/can't answer.
3. Person is routed to google voice/grand central #.
4. With "Do Not Disturb" checked, person goes directly to VM.
5. VM is transcribed and emailed/txt'ed to your cell phone.
6. 3rd party apps already available provide pretty interface and more options.

It just keeps getting better (http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/06/29/hack-use-google-voice-to-add-visual-voicemail-to-your-g1-dream/)

Or you can just use T-Mo's visual voice that just released today and has a pretty nice interface as well.

I'm more of a fan of the forwarding to grand central, and having the information stored that way.

[SaturnTypeR]

I am waitin on my response for Google Voice, from google..Signed up over 2months ago...if not longer.

[MianoSM]

Sigh, they came out with a google voice application - but you need an @gmail.com account to log into it...

I use my personal email that google hosts for me for the phone and google voice. : (

[Joe]

Awesome. The world's largest search engine can now transcribe and store all your personal voice mail.

Makes sense to use it.

[Jeff240sx]

Awesome. The world's largest search engine can now transcribe and store all your personal voice mail.

Makes sense to use it.

Yea, seriously.

All your info belongs to Google.

I try to use as few of their products as I can, even though my email is @gmail.com , as the EULA gives them explicit ownership of whatever is hosted on their server for any amount of time. And while it may be deleted client-side, it never leaves server-side.

[IamSuprAwsum]

Paranoid much?

[Joe]

Paranoid much?

You should read "Transparent Society" by Brin. Talks about this exact scenario... "everything about everybody" is in the open and the issues that come with that lack of privacy.

[Zealot]

Big Brother is watching

[MianoSM]

I really don't care if Google stores information about my mom loving me, and my girlfriend coming over later on. :dunno:

Everyone knows not to talk about the serious stuff on a phone anyway, haven't you seen the movies?

[IamSuprAwsum]

You should read "Transparent Society" by Brin. Talks about this exact scenario... "everything about everybody" is in the open and the issues that come with that lack of privacy.

Dont get me wrong Im not trying to start shit here and I can totally see your point but what makes you think no one has your personal information already? Personally I think google is the least of anyones worries. Every cell phone company out there keeps logs of your text messages and they have to store your voicemails on a server somewhere. That and hell, most people nowadays are basically 3 blog posts away from posting their SSN on fucking myspace. btw, I might have to check into that book.

[Trky]

I've noticed that when my black friends call and leave a message, google never gets any part of the message right. however, my white friends have no problem. Just thought that was odd. I <3 google voice.

[Jeff240sx]

Paranoid much?

Paranoia is thinking that they're currently beaming advertisements directly into your brain.

I don't think that.

I do think that when the time comes for brain-beamed advertisements, Google will have a MASSIVE leg up on the competition. They know every seedy site I've searched, every crazy plan I've emailed. They have my signature, my SSN, and know my mortgage broker. :gordy:

[IamSuprAwsum]

Paranoia is thinking that they're currently beaming advertisements directly into your brain.

I don't think that.

I do think that when the time comes for brain-beamed advertisements, Google will have a MASSIVE leg up on the competition. They know every seedy site I've searched, every crazy plan I've emailed. They have my signature, my SSN, and know my mortgage broker. :gordy:


hahahahah... good stuff. lol

[Jeff240sx]

Honestly. If I had to call out one company to be our next Umbrella Corp. in 10 years, it's Google.

They received praise for investing in various energy sources. They've made designs to have floating server farms powered by solar and wave power.

I read: We don't want to be bound by any government regulations at some point.

Google has fought the government on more privacy issues pertaining to it's users.
I read: Google wants to keep all it's information, and more importantly - what it tracks... to itself.

They have many shipping containers filled with servers and call them "Mobile Datacenters," for which they were awarded a patent. They're currently operational, and portable. The idea is, apparently, that when the water-based server farm is plausible, they simply move their mobile datacenters onboard.
I read: If we need to GTFO quick, we've already got our datacenters boxed up. Two birds with that one stone...

They have satellites, ground surveilance, have our personal conversations (google chat), our texts/pics *including facial recognition via Picasa*, our documents (google docs). Google Chrome had a condition in it that everything created within it is property of Google until someone read it. Then we got the "Oops. We didn't mean to leave that in there..." line.

The Android phone can track you tower to tower and approximate via triangulation where you are. From that, compiling an ant-line of where you stop frequently, what roads you take daily, where you go, where you stop.. it's all just a gently slippery-slope away.


Seriously. Google is scary.

But they're not beaming advertisements directly into my brain. I know that.