moonlog

Dumbphone on Google Voice

Another trick for using a dumbphone with Google Voice is text messages. If you receive a text from someone who texted your Google number, that sender’s real number isn’t rendered as the sender on your dumbphone — it’s aliased by some number belonging to Google. But don’t fret, if you call that Google number the text seems to come from, your call be forwarded to the sender of message automatically.

So, I keep at least one text from each person (the most recent) on my dumbphone so that I don’t have to go through those silly prompts to call from the Google Voice number. Just pull up their message and hit send. It’s not exactly speed dial, but it works to some degree.