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Google Voice is a solid option for your personal phone needs, but it might not be professional enough for freelancers and small business owners. Phonebooth is a great alternative that gives you a dedicated phone number, free minutes, and more.

Android only: Android users looking to switch over to Google Voice full-time like I am, check out GV. GV provides calling and SMS support via your Google Voice number that isn’t perfect, but is close.

The economy stinks for you, but it really stinks for providers of services that can easily be scaled back-like cell phone providers. On the one hand, they may fight harder to keep you paying for data plans, text messages, and other “value added” items, but they really, truly don’t want to lose you as a [...]

A new service popped up today called IconDial. It’s about as simple and straightforward as possible. Go to the site, which has a phone-style dial pad, and dial any phone number in the world. After a 3-5 second advertisement, your call will be put through. There is no restriction on who you can call – [...]

Android isn’t the “Google Phone” or “GPhone.” It’s a (mostly) free and open-source mobile operating system that’s made to run on all kinds of cell phones, and allow nearly anyone who can program in Java to create and distribute applications for it.