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четверг, 26 августа 2010 г.

The new dialer in Gmail chat in conjunction with Google Voice: first impressions

At aviarostere have recently appeared the announcement of the new features Gmail - calls on the phones directly from the chat.
It was announced that the feature will appear within a few days, but after I reinstalled the plug for video and voice chat (as well updated and he Chrome), this feature, I've had. Let Potesta?


I must say that I am an avid user of Google Voice, so I was interested not only potestit this feature in itself, as potestit her to receive calls on my Guglonomer.

Step back a little and say a few words about the Google Voice (although I'm sure everyone knows what is it they eat).

Google Voice gives you a local number (so far for America, and I think, England), calls which are shipped to you on all your phones, you can customize when and what calls are being sent to a room. Conveniently, perhaps, to those who have a lot of phones, some cellular, home, work, and so on, I almost never use this, I have only one number.

What is much more convenient (especially for me as a native of Russia and Kazakhstan, who lives in America), is outgoing calls. It works this way - in the interface Guglovoysa you choose which of the contacts you want to call and what phone you want to talk. All you press to call you on your phone finds a local call to your guglonomerom, you pick up the phone and you connect a small amount of money anywhere in the world. A bit cheaper than Skype, where you are or are tied to a computer, or should take Skaypotrubku (I do not use Skype a long time, maybe there is something and changed). In this case, you can click a few buttons and leave the phone in another room.
However, if you have your phone with Android (and it seems that it works \ for some time to work with iPhones), you can install an application that keeps track of an international call it, and if so, connects you via Guglovoys.
Now I just got used to directly dial international numbers and call friends and parents in Kazakhstan or Russia without a moment ozabochivayas fact that making an international call.

Another beauty - voice mail. I have it redirected to Guglovoys, which means that I can do different greetings to different groups of contacts. Mame, which is very difficult to comprehend the idea of leaving a voice message or speak in English - a message in Russian like "Mama, I'm busy right now and I can not speak, so now biknet, you tell me what to say and then just hung up" his girlfriend "Darling, I'm very busy, call back as soon as both at once, and normal communication in English for everyone else.

In addition, Guglovoys decrypts voice mail, and shows (in my case, directly on the phone) it in the form of text. Very handy when you're sitting at a meeting or conference, and you can not help it, to talk, and even to pretend that somewhere you call, that is, bring the phone to his ear. If you speak English without a strong accent, rasshifrovyaet in about 95% of the cases very well. Yes, and sometimes listen to a long message will not want to, and read that my car was repaired and I can take it out of service on such an address at any time before 6 pm, except on weekends, is actually much faster.

Now, you can bind your Gmail dialer to Guglovoysu as just another number. For this we must make at least one outgoing call, see the dialer in the phone list and postavitnaprotiv her tick.

So, enough theory, go to practice.
Works.
What is inconvenient - when to dial a telephone on the drawn numpade - tooltips after the first digit of its cover, and should either call after each key figures somewhere else, or keyboard.


Once you've done the first outgoing call, you can go to Guglopochtu and put the checkbox in front Gmayl chat phone list.


Now, all incoming calls to your Guglonomer be diverted and Gmail (if you leave the checkbox).

I wondered where and how to pay for calls with this dialer, especially those who have no Guglovoysa, but know that I was not fated. In the dialer will automatically show my balance with Guglovoysa. Perhaps those who do not, will have to prepay separately using Google Checkout.


Incoming calls are displayed as follows:


I'm very pleased, so is the presence of buttons «Screen». In this cell for some reason do not, and, as far as I remember, in Russia for wired phones, too. Here on the landline phones are almost all is the default (you can see it in many American movies) - do you hear as you ostavlyut message, and at the same time, if this is really something important, can still pick up the phone. If you press this button during a call, a pleasant female voice says in English - "forwards the voismeyl. In this case you can still raise turbku simply clicking «Answer». After the caller hung up, a female voice offers a press 7, to mark this voysmeyl as read, or 9 - to save as new.

If you click on the icon in the window hours dialer, then you will get a log of calls (fairly non-obvious choice of icons, IMHO).
There I was expecting a surprise. With only two calls have been made as a test, the call log has been filled.


After several seconds of astonishment and checking the history of calls Guglovoyse I realized that this story calls from there. Given that incoming calls to my Guglonomer almost no (I did, as mentioned above, do not use this as a), the magazine calls Guglovoyse and, consequently, in Gmail dialer is one of those calls, which were sent to my cell number, are not answered, and forwarded to voysmeyl Guglovoysa. That is, I have there are the people who called me on the cell and at least wait until the beginning of welcome voysmeyle Guglovoysa. Confusing, yes?

The magazine consists of a contact name (zablyureno), his phone number (with my theme of Gmail, which is called Shiny, the phone was not visible at all - if it does not change the cursor when you hover, it would have not noticed), type of phone - mobile, home, worker, and the type of call - incoming, outgoing, missed, on voysmeyl.

Another interesting thing. I wish I had someone demonstrate this, how it works in Voysmeyl Guglovoyse, and asked him to call on my (attention!) Cell number. Tube on a cell would not take, but his comrade, to our collective amazement, at voysmeyl redirected was not. Instead, rang Gmail dialer! Thus, calls to my cell phone for some reason, instead voysmeyla forwarded to the dialer. This is most likely due to the fact that the number to dial in at voysmeyl Guglovoysa is my Guglovoysovsky same phone number. Somehow, the system now thinks it does not call for voysmeyl, but simply an incoming call on my number Guglovoysa, and, consequently, redirects to all telephones (ie in my case - Phone Gmail).

I do not know what is that and can this be fixed somewhere in the settings, but at this point, if dialer is connected with Guglovoysom, receive voice mail via Guglovoys seems impossible.

Going configured you can, but that's to save the result - can not. Since the dialer is - no phone number and mailing address. And the system just swears that this is not valid telephone number:



where zablyureno - my email address.

Thus, the summary:

Stuck uniquely interesting, useful, surprising degree of integration in Guglovoys. However, not without bugs, as well as minor troubles like the fact that the mouse buttons to poke just does not work, and serious - the settings in dialer Guglovoyse still can not change, perestalya work voice mail in the Google Voice. 

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