Wow, it’ been a while that I’ve been using GrandCentral (one number to rule them all, by forwarding your calls to upto 5 US #rs at once) and I have always been quite happy with their service. In the last few months though I have been getting perturbed that they don’t forward SMS/text messages to my mobile like they do voice calls. This is 2008 almost 2009, I can’t believe it’s to difficult for a Google owned company to receive 140 characters and turn around and forward those same 140 characters to a mobile phone. Honestly I would even be content if GC would forward a text to my email address. I use my GrandCentral number for business and most people just assume it’s a mobile number. Problem is, some people in turn will text my GC number and guess who never receives a text message??? ME! I had this exact situation happen to me while I was in Spain earlier this year. A friend sent me an SMS and she never heard back from me so she figured I was just ignoring her.
GrandCentral, fix this problem now and if you only have a band aid of emailing me the SMS that’s fine. I want that as an option when you do bring out the full service anyway. For now I just want to be able to receive SMS anyway possible. Make it happen.
We can talk about sending SMS from our GC #rs in the future.
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1 Jacob // Oct 14, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Most people right now are hoping that GrandCentral isn’t a dead project. There has been no new features in many months. Their last blog post was in April, and they also stopped giving out invites.
SMS forwarding seems pretty insignificant compared to letting everyone know that GrandCentral is still alive.
2 john manoogian III // Nov 27, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Hear, hear!
You can vote for this feature here: http://www.google.com/support/grandcentral/bin/request.py?contact_type=suggest
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