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Originally Posted by sschauer
I thought the whole point of what they were getting at with the new Nexus One was giving us the option to tell the cell phone companies we don't NEED them.... which is why I thought you could make calls using it without cell phone service if you had a WiFi connection.
I also liked the feature of having my GV number show up for work when I don't want people having my personal cell phone number. Apparently that's not the case anymore. Also, Google bought out Gizmo when they acquired Grand Central... not sure if they are planning to integrate.
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You still can do that.... just not with Google-Voice. That's not the app for it.
There are several VoIP applications available on and off the Android market that will allow you to make calls over a WiFi connection.
From what I understand, Google Plans on integrating Gizmo with GV (to do exactly what you want). Actually you can do that now (with some extra configuration) if you already have a Gizmo account. (Unfortunately Google has temporarily frozen Gizmo account registration after they took over).
It surprises me the GV doesn't show the GV number when making outbound calls from a cell phone (when using the app... again, you can do that manually by calling your GV number from your registered cell and hitting option 2 to make an outbound call, though you have to manually type in the number). I know that it does show the GV phone # when TEXT from your phone (as I have an anonymous Google-Voice account specifically for clandestine texts to screw with friends, etc...).