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Call and message your friends with a real phone number - no phone service required! SMS text any US or Canada number or call worldwide.
#1 free text and call app with a local phone number of your choice.
Send and receive unlimited sms / text / MMS / group messages to anyone in the US or Canada.
Ad-supported or cheap local & international calling - you choose how to call!
textPlus is the ONLY app where keeping in touch is made simple, cheap and hassle free.
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textPlus also lets you do more:
- Turn your tablet into a phone for free texting and calling with a real US number!
- Great for keeping in touch with family/friends in the US / Canada while traveling abroad
- Group texting / message / send MMS & SMS
- Toll-free calling from anywhere in the world with no restrictions!
- Unlimited free inbound calling and calls - your friends can always reach you
- Access your chat and call history on any device with free cloud hosting
- Save tons of money on your mobile plan
IS IT REALLY FREE?
Yes - no fees to send unlimited SMS messages and you can earn credits to place a call (inbound calls are completely FREE).
HOW IS IT FREE?
The app comes with a few ads. If you don't like ads, you can purchase a subscription to remove them.
Great SMS phone alternative for:
- anyone needing a second number for work / privacy
- kids
- seniors
- travelers to and from the US
- anyone looking to save money on cell phone bills.
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Highlights:
- Full picture messaging (MMS): send, receive and save pictures
- Customizable text-tone, ringtone & vibration
- Customizable themes
- Quick Reply to easily (and quickly) respond to friends
- Unified inbox: send and receive your texts directly via any device as your one-stop SMS texting app!
- Real SMS texting and calling: text and call ANY phone that accepts SMS texting, and ANY phone for calling.
- Voicemail
- Works over WiFi or data
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Questions? Email [email protected]
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#1 free text and call app with a local phone number of your choice.
Send and receive unlimited sms / text / MMS / group messages to anyone in the US or Canada.
Ad-supported or cheap local & international calling - you choose how to call!
textPlus is the ONLY app where keeping in touch is made simple, cheap and hassle free.
*********************************************
textPlus also lets you do more:
- Turn your tablet into a phone for free texting and calling with a real US number!
- Great for keeping in touch with family/friends in the US / Canada while traveling abroad
- Group texting / message / send MMS & SMS
- Toll-free calling from anywhere in the world with no restrictions!
- Unlimited free inbound calling and calls - your friends can always reach you
- Access your chat and call history on any device with free cloud hosting
- Save tons of money on your mobile plan
IS IT REALLY FREE?
Yes - no fees to send unlimited SMS messages and you can earn credits to place a call (inbound calls are completely FREE).
HOW IS IT FREE?
The app comes with a few ads. If you don't like ads, you can purchase a subscription to remove them.
Great SMS phone alternative for:
- anyone needing a second number for work / privacy
- kids
- seniors
- travelers to and from the US
- anyone looking to save money on cell phone bills.
*********************************************
Highlights:
- Full picture messaging (MMS): send, receive and save pictures
- Customizable text-tone, ringtone & vibration
- Customizable themes
- Quick Reply to easily (and quickly) respond to friends
- Unified inbox: send and receive your texts directly via any device as your one-stop SMS texting app!
- Real SMS texting and calling: text and call ANY phone that accepts SMS texting, and ANY phone for calling.
- Voicemail
- Works over WiFi or data
FOLLOW TEXTPLUS
www.facebook.com/textplus
www.twitter.com/textplus
Questions? Email [email protected]
Ads By Facebook
Facebook wants to show ads that are relevant to you. We may consider ads for you based on information you share on Facebook and your use of other websites and apps. To learn more about this type of advertising and your choices about it, visit https://www.facebook.com/about/ads.
Location data may be used for providing you more relevant ads.
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In January 2017, Google updated Google Voice on the web, Android, and iOS after years of minimal public changes. The update:
- Embraced Material Design elements on all three platforms, to provide a simpler, more streamlined user experience
- Added group and photo MMS capabilities
- Offered 3D touch support for the iPhone, with options to place a call, send a message, or search within Google Voice
- Included a new app built for the iPad.
The redesign places the emphasis of the app solidly on messages, calls, and voicemail. Those three options feature prominently on the web, Android, and iOS, with a dialing pad also added as a fourth option in the mobile apps.
All the standard features of Google Voice remain, including the ability for an incoming call to ring on multiple phones (or devices), if you choose. The service still provides text transcriptions of voicemails, and lets you receive both the audio recording and text in an email. And, you can still screen calls by requiring a caller to state their name, so you can choose to either take the call or send it to voicemail after you hear what they say.
The new Google Voice app makes some things simpler. Now there's a single 'Filter Spam' setting. Turn it on to help block spam calls, messages, and voicemail. The three-dot menu allows you to block a caller, mark a number as spam, and archive or delete a conversation. In the mobile apps, there's also a 'Do not disturb' option, which sends all calls to voicemail when selected.
But, some features of 'Legacy Google Voice,' as the menu item calls it, aren't yet found in the new apps. Most notably, Wi-Fi calling isn't yet in the app. When I place an outbound call on my Chromebook, I see a prompt that asks me to place the call either via my phone or Hangouts. A similar thing occurs on my iPad: The app rings my phone, rather than just placing the call over Wi-Fi. You also can't yet star a conversation, which some people used to mark and process messages.
If you've been using Google Voice integrated with Hangouts, you have options. You can choose to disconnect the two, which would mean incoming calls now go to the Google Voice app, with Hangouts relegated to handling messages, voice, or video calls to other Hangouts users.
Most Hangouts users who rely on integrated Google Voice should continue to do so. On Chrome OS, you'll need Hangouts (or your phone) to place an outbound call anyway.
On iOS, Hangouts still supports calls placed over Wi-Fi, so you can place a call in Hangouts from your Google Voice number on a WiFi-only iPad. Hangouts also allows you to send your location as long as you're at a Google-recognized place. Google Voice only supports sending a photo.
The refresh does nothing to clarify the direction of Google's messaging strategy. While the company has hinted that the future role of Hangouts is in the enterprise, the current capabilities of apps display overlapping features:
- Hangouts offers messaging, calls, and video calls
- Google Voice offers messaging and calls
- You can configure settings to use Google Voice features within Hangouts
- Google Duo offers video calls
- Google Allo offers messaging, but not SMS or MMS
- On Android, there's Messenger, which offers SMS and MMS
If you want to select an app from Google for voice communications, the best option will depend on your needs. If you make calls mostly from your smartphone—and don't need video-conferencing—then the new Google Voice app will likely work well for you. But, if you already use Hangouts and use multiple devices or make video-calls, stick with Hangouts with integrated Google Voice. And, if you're an enterprise looking for a phone system that integrates with G Suite, look at a third-party solution like Dialpad or RingCentral.
If you've tried the new Google Voice app on Android, iOS, or the web, let me know what you think of it in the comments or on Twitter. And what do you think the app indicates about the future of calling services from Google?
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- Recent Google Voice updates are welcome additions (ZDNet)
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