OBi Phone Service $39.99/year
TheoGeek:
Quote from: 7Priest7 on January 13, 2014, 11:09:04 pm
Concerning the 39.99 a year, worthless.
I would rather obihai focus on updating their systems to work post xmpp removal,
instead they focus on brokering more expensive than GV deals.
From what I've read, Google doesn't really have much interest in opening up whatever protocol they'll be using for Hangouts (which replaces Chat). It will be interesting to see, but Google has been against third party products using Google Voice/Chat the way they've been using it - my guess is that in beefing up the Hangout infrastructure, a nice side effect for them was to stop supporting XMPP.
And I wasn't all that impressed with the call quality of GV. I had GV -> Callcentric -> Obi for incoming CNAM, and obi -> GV for outgoing calls. In all my calls, I had a walkie-talkie effect - there was a noticeable 1 or 2 second delay and we'd end up talking over each other all the time. It got so bad that someone would call and my wife would call them back on her cell phone.
When I took GV out completely and used a pay per minute CallCentric plan, that went away completely. Likewise with Obivoice (the $60 for two year unlimited/e911 thingy that is evidently not what the topic of this thread is about).
So, I'd agree. Unless Obi brokers a free service with better quality than GV, I'm happy paying $2.50/month with a third party provider and leave ObiHai to improve the hardware. But I think they are kinda roped into this because most of their "advertisement" has not been "The Obi devices are powerful little VoIP adapters" (which they are), it has been "Use the Obi to get free phone service with Google Voice!" Expectations and impressions trump reality in many cases, and I think this is one of those cases - people think that Obi only works with GV - go and read the Amazon reviews sometime. I applaud the people who post reviews there who try to set people straight, but I'm afraid that it falls on deaf ears.
gderf:
Quote from: TheoGeek on January 14, 2014, 11:04:49 am
Snip....
Expectations and impressions trump reality in many cases, and I think this is one of those cases - people think that Obi only works with GV - go and read the Amazon reviews sometime. I applaud the people who post reviews there who try to set people straight, but I'm afraid that it falls on deaf ears.
I would take humor if those folks dumped their OBis on ebay for peanuts and went out and bought some other brand ATA only to find out later their OBi would have worked just fine or even better.
soundview:
I am mostly clueless about all this but I have been reading a lot on this forum in order to come up to speed. One thing that seems overlooked are mobile apps. My current GV-Obi202 setup lets me use the Google Voice app on an iPad to listen/read/respond to GV voicemail and SMS. Since my wife uses her iPad to text and retreive voice mail, there is a huge WAF vested in the current setup. Anything that upsets this apple (no pun intended) cart will only bring grief ;D
My question is this: Will forwarding my GV number to an ITSP DID bypass GV's voicemail and SMS thus rendering those GV features useless or will GV's voicemail and SMS messaging still work? If I lose those GV features, what ITSP's offer similar apps/features to access voicemail and SMS messaging?
I assume that most ITSPs have some sort of web interface but I'm looking specifically for those with apps that can be downloaded onto her iPad for quick and ready access to voicemail and SMS. I am willing to pay to keep the wife happy since it has taken a while for her to be comfortable with our GV setup.
lhm.:
One persons perspective,
"What’s really happening with Google Voice?"
http://tech.iprock.com/?p=10372
giqcass:
Quote from: soundview on January 14, 2014, 11:45:16 am
My question is this: Will forwarding my GV number to an ITSP DID bypass GV's voicemail and SMS thus rendering those GV features useless or will GV's voicemail and SMS messaging still work? If I lose those GV features, what ITSP's offer similar apps/features to access voicemail and SMS messaging?
I haven't used the Apple versions but I hear the Hangout app for the Ipad is better then the Android version. I heard the Ipad version can place and receive calls directly on the Ipad and will even after the XMPP shutoff. The Google Voice app should continue to work as well but does not have that feature to my knowledge unless you do some tweaking.
Forwarding to another ITSP will not mess with any of the Google Voice features as long as you either disable voicemail for those services or make sure they take longer then 30 seconds for voicemail to pick up.
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