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Google hasn’t rolled out its Google Voice service to the public as the Today Show mistakenly implied last week, but the page promises that you’ll be able to utilize the service within the next few weeks. Basically, the service gives you a single number that rings all of your other numbers, effectively consolidating your points of contact to a single point. But there’s more you can do.

Google Voice also allows you to customize your voice mail messages, get written transcripts of your messages, make free phone calls and conference calls, establish rules for how your numbers ring, and more. The one drawback is that you can’t port over your current phone number as the “main” number, but you can still give out your current number and have it ring directly to your cell or home number, for example. Still, you’ll have to get a new number, and Google has reserved several numbers in many area codes for this service.

A quick side note: how much longer will area codes mean something? Given that people move their cell phones around so often and don’t change the codes, what do they even mean any more? It’s a function of phone numbers that may have been useful before, but the meaning behind these codes is rapidly eroding

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