GrandCentral Beta
September 11, 2007 – 7:41 amI just got invited into Google’s beta of GrandCentral.
If you’re not already familiar with GrandCentral, here’s how they describe themselves:
With GrandCentral, you can be reached with a single number, answer a call at any phone you want, seamlessly switch phones in the middle of a call, and even know whether a call is important before you take it.
- Check your messages by phone, email, or online
- Keep all your messages online for eternity
- Record and store your phone calls (just like voicemail)
- Quickly (and secretly) block an annoying caller
- Click-to-dial from your address book
- Surprise your callers with a custom voicemail greeting
- Forward, download, and add notes to your messages
It also includes spam filtering, custom ringbacks, custom call screening, grouping of contacts and custom call settings per caller group or individual caller.
You get to pick the phone number you want to use from a list of available numbers. You pick your state, pick your city, then choose your number from the available list in that area code. I believe that only the continental United States are currently supported.
I have nine invitations left. If you want one, just ask.
