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Originally Posted by epage View Post
I've only given my GV number out for the last 3 years. I just have no need for filtering and have gotten pretty lazy about even creating contacts for people.

Mind helping me understand the use case? Understanding use cases helps to determine what features need to be added and how the UI should be setuo.

I think I am curious about the following
  • How much do you configure per contact added
  • How often do you add contacts
  • How much juggling of existing contacts do you do on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis?
  • What types of things are you configuring
Well, I have call screening enabled for contacts that haven't been put into a couple of my contact groups... Friends, Family, Work, Personal, etc... and my google voice rings my various phones differently, within the defined contact groups.

If I get a call from someone not in one of my contact groups, I get the usual call screening prompt, but I may decide to save that number with a new contact on my phone, and also decide to create a google voice contact and put that contact into a contact group that rings my phones appropriately in the future, rather than continuing to screen the calls.

Obviously, there's already some duplication of effort, creating a contact in my phone, and also creating a contact in google voice, but being able to manage this stuff directly on my phone, without visiting a 'heavier' website, would be convenient, if the Google Voice APIs provide access to these features.

I really don't spend a lot of time on the phone, or receive many calls from unknown callers, but for example... last week I had several unknown callers, while I was taking care of some auto repairs, rental car, upholstery shop, etc.., etc...

The call screening becomes a bit of a bother, if there's a lot of back and forth communication, multiple phone calls still getting screened, etc... before you get around to creating google voice contacts and putting contacts into appropriate call groups.

Last edited by slvr32; 2011-04-04 at 20:15.