Grand Central
Grand Central is a service now owned by Google that brings all of your phone numbers together. Basically, you get one phone number that rings all of your numbers and you can decide which phone you want to answer on. There’s settings to decide which call gets directed to which line so only your friends call your cell phone.
According to the website, Grand Central allows you to:
- 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’s actually a very great service and I enjoy using it. I don’t have caller ID on my home phone because I’m cheap and never use it (cable is bundled and it’s actually cheaper to have a phone and not use it than to not have a phone…interesting) so when someone calls my home phone, I know it’s not someone I want to talk to since I don’t ever give out that number and I have my GC number set to ring my cell phone and my boyfriend’s phone.
Grand Central is in beta (and FREE) so it requires an invitation to sign up. You can either sign up for one here like I did, or get one from a user. If you’d like one from me, I have ten invites left so let me know.
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That sounds like a pretty handy service. Not for me though as I only have one number anyway.
I WOULD LOVE TO TEST GOGGLES GRAND CENTRAL. CAN I RECEIVE AN invitation DOWNLOAD. THANK YOU
Sure, I’ll go ahead and send you one.
Hi! You got any more invites?
Hi Sydney,
Great blog — I recently graduated college and am now in law school and a lot of what you write worked for me.
Do you have any GrandCentral invites left? Now that I have more than one phone number, things are getting complicated…
Thanks!
Good to hear!
Yeah, I have a few left, I’ll go ahead and send one your way.
Can you please send me an invite.
Hey Sydney,
Awesome blog. It has a lot of posts on that are very useful and have helped me.
Would you happen have any invites left? I have the same thing as you with caller id and being cheeper with the bundle, so i could really use one
Thanks
I would also love to try this Grand Central. I had no idea something like this existed. I guess it makes many people’s lives easier. Thanks for posting your article, I’m glad I found out about it.
I can’t wait until this is available in other parts of the word!
Wow, didn’t know that Google manage such things. How actual is the info? I mean, where is the timestapms?