Halos Heaven

Been using it

Nothing with Angels or Halos in my area code, but that’s OK. I took instead a phone number which had the same last four digits as my cell number (the wife and I haven’t had a landline in about six years).

One cool feature: If you use the number to place upon anything (like a rewards card at the supermarket) which you think will be re-sold by the company you’re supplying the number to, it will challenge any caller with an unknown phone number. That caller, instead of reaching your phone, will reach the GV center and be asked by recorded voice to speak the name of the caller. GV then calls you, lets you know who’s calling, and gives you the option to take the call or reject it. If you elect to reject it, you can then block the caller in the future; if they should call back, they’ll hear the official phone company recording that says “this number is no longer in service and there is no new number; please check the number you’re calling and try again”. For all the world, you’re no longer at that number.

If you’re someone who has landline, cell and perhaps even a third number (like a business line), you can hand out one GV phone number and have the call routed to the phone of your choice. Once you train the service, calls from phone number A will always go to the home phone, number B will go to the business line, number C will be routed wherever you wish it to go that day—you decide where you want the calls to go in the future.

There are a lot of cool features to discover in this service, which is just out of beta and which will be adding new functionality as the months go by.

And it is FREE.

George Kaplan - August 24, 2010 reply