ergophobe - 11:25 pm on Jul 1, 2009 (gmt 0)

I got a Google Voice invite a little while ago. A little before this announcement actually, as a private invite from a Google employee.

The main thing I needed was to have two different residences using one phone number. There are some paid services that offer this, but not a one had a local number, so our neighbors would have to call long-distance to get us. So I was surprised to find that GV did indeed have a local number to offer.

That feature has been working without a glitch.

I haven't really even tried any other feature. Most of the other features seem primarily of interest to mobile users and since we have very limited coverage in our area, I don't use a mobile phone except on rare occasions when I travel to a town. So I really haven't tried any of those.