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Originally Posted by sschauer
No, its supposed to be used in place of the VZW minutes over the data connection. Hence, why the new Nexus one does not require a cell phone connection to make calls when you use WiFi. When I had the OEM ROM on my phone it went through Google Voice and didn't use my minutes at all. The calls also appeared in my outgoing call log on GV. Now my outgoing calls do not appear there nor does my GV number pop up on the caller ID.
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WRONG.
GV is not a VoIP application. All is does is allow incoming calls from multiple numbers to be collated to a single inbound number with rules based on who the caller is, and voice-2-text voice mail. As for outbound calls, what it does is call a Google switchboard which provides a dial-tone hand-off, and redials the target (contact) phone number (just like Sly-dial). However it does this invisibly behind the scenes.
Again, it is NOT a VoIP app, and never advertised itself as one.
There are indeed VoIP apps out there, that will allow you to make calls over IP and thus not using airtime (assuming you have an unlimited data plan, or are using Wi-Fi).
However, you can combine Google-Voice with some apps, such as GIZMO, in order to achieve the result that you desire.
http://lifehacker.com/5349506/make-f...m-google-voice