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Never read much about this, but I'm intrigued because (I think?) you can get free SMS using GV if you have an Android phone. Anyone know if this is true?

If so, I may actually get the Droid and cancel my texting plan if I can do it for free.
 
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BuckeyeTillIDie;1633966; said:
Never read much about this, but I'm intrigued because (I think?) you can get free SMS using GV if you have an Android phone. Anyone know if this is true?

If so, I may actually get the Droid and cancel my texting plan if I can do it for free.
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Yes you can send sms messages for free on voice, and I think it works the same on android phones. I'm also certain they have an app for both blackberrys and all android phones. Hit me up if you need an invite. You might try contacting jwins, I'm sure he knows more about this than me.

Here's the link to the voice for android phones app.
Google Voice on your mobile phone

Good luck! Let us know how it works.
 
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CentralMOBuck;1634022; said:
Yes you can send sms messages for free on voice, and I think it works the same on android phones. I'm also certain they have an app for both blackberrys and all android phones. Hit me up if you need an invite. You might try contacting jwins, I'm sure he knows more about this than me.

Here's the link to the voice for android phones app.
Google Voice on your mobile phone

Good luck! Let us know how it works.
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I don't need an invite, but thought I would toss in my 2 cents. The app works really well, however, due to the fact that google somehow decided they don't want to take money out of the carriers pockets, the only communication on the phone that isn't push or instant is the sms inbox. Gtalk, and gmail are both push, but the google voice sms message pull every 5 minutes, irritating.

The app ties in really well, you can set it up to automatically just use your google voice number and it will, if it fails it will offer the option to dial from the regular phone, great app imo.
 
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After having too many times where suddenly firefox is using 2-3 gigs of memory, I decided to try Chrome 4 beta out, it takes extensions so I can have flashblock and many other common extensions used by firefox, also, it has native sync of your bookmarks to your google docs if you're ok with assisting google in their plans for global domination.

Google Chrome (BETA)

Here's the list of extensions: https://chrome.google.com/extensions?hl=en-US

Now let's hope that I don't wake up in a week and find that chrome has decided to start 100 processes all trying to take 2 gigs of memory :(

Just thought I would pass this along if someone is having similiar experiences and is looking for a possible alternative without having to give in to IE.
 
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Still a big fan of chrome..It is evolving slowly around the user. I'm not a big add-on guy myself so it doesnt bother me,but it's good to see them adjusting..The browser just runs smoother for me then any other.
 
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What does it do far better than the rest for your needs?

IE 8 has really stepped up their game, but they lost me when previous versions failed to support very basic code that I programmed to be cross-browser compatible.
 
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MaxBuck;1642203; said:
I know I'm in the minority here, but I still far prefer Microsoft Internet Explorer to any of its competitors. I've tried Safari, Firefox, Opera, Chrome - MIE still fits my needs better than any of them.
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For me it's been a matter of performance, I have IE8 but I have never actually used it, there was always memory leaks, it caused lockups and had a shit ton of security problems. I also have a huge problem with Microsoft creating code that's not part of the w3 standard and just adding it to their browser.

As a person who uses many different OS's, things like silverlight just piss me off, MS's refusal to acknowledge other operating systems is my primary reason for using as little of their products as possible. Honestly, if it wasn't for gaming, I don't think I would run any MS product, but alas, I didn't buy a quad core with a shit-ton of memory to stare at snake or play quake for the 830000000th time.

But that's me, to each their own.

I brought the new chrome announcement because, well, Firefox is becoming the memory whore that IE used to be, suddenly your browser can consume 4 gigs of memory, and that's a problem, I have not encountered those issues with Chrome.
 
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