Call me!
I got a Google voice number, it’s in my info on facebook, it’s Seattle-based. I’ve connected it with my Localphone account and now if you call my Google voice number, it will ring my mobile in France, costing me 11 cents/minute (not bad, I promise). I would have done this back in June, but it took a while to set up the whole thing as they disapprove of IP addresses outside the U.S. To get around that, I used Anchor Free Hotspot Shield. Which might allow me to watch Hulu, too.
You can send texts to that number and it will go to an online account where I can read them (but I basically still prefer texts to go directly to my mobile, if it doesn’t cost you too much). Google voice will also transcribe voice messages you leave and I can read them, kind of curious to see how well this will work.
If anyone wants to know how to use Google voice to dial your international mobile phone, leave a comment and I’ll write a post about it.