Google Voice On Your Evo – Now with Sprint Superpowers!

Google Voice is an amazing addition to your Evo and with Sprint’s upcoming partnership with Google, it becomes even more powerful. By entering your Sprint number as your new Google Voice number you receive a number of amazing features that are unmatched in the industry.

First and foremost, you have the power of Google Voice calling at your fingertips. While these minutes do count against your ‘anytime minutes’, you can call many locations free, including Mexico and Canada. Discounted rates to the UK are as low as $.02 per minute. This is a fraction of what cellular minutes currently cost to call the UK or other worldwide destinations.

Next on the amazing features list is the powerful SMS tool that is incorporated in to the Voice app. Free texting is great – although not a major bonus for most EVO users. The nice bonus to Google’s voice system is that the SMS message can be forwarded directly to your Gmail inbox for a BlackBerry’esque experience.

Another feature is voice mail access from any computer. By simply enabling other phones/devices on the Google Voice site, you can forward your Google Voice number to your home, office and even your weekend getaway locations.

Call screening, blocking and grouping is another wonderful feature of this new service. You can block those annoying telemarketers, who will then receive the “Dee dee deet – We’re sorry, the number you’ve called is no longer in service” message when they call you next.

Grouping allows you to have different messages for different people when they call you. Your friends can have one message, while your co-workers get a more professional greeting.

The final feature that we will highlight is the call screening option. You can actually screen calls live and decide whether or not to answer them when the voicemail picks up. A brilliant play when you aren’t sure who is calling or if you really want to talk to Uncle Bob right now.

Overall, the merge of Google Voice and Sprint services will make life grand – especially for newer users just getting on the bandwagon. Get yourself over to http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=1205635 and get all the details now.