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	<title>Comments on: Grand Central invites</title>
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		<title>By: ryan</title>
		<link>http://blog.acmelab.org/2007/09/28/grand-central-invites/#comment-24464</link>
		<dc:creator>ryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Grand Central 2week (thanks Mark!) report:

Pros: switching between phones mid-call very cool; pressing 4 to record; old-school call-screening "listen in" feature; fairly nice web GUI and DTMF GUI via phone. web access via anything other than a wifi enabled phone (hello new blackberry!) sucks. occasional VOIP echo/latency issues. . .overall on par with or better than average cell phone connection (not good when both end points are cell phones).  Integration with gizmo, nice but not perfect - giz seems very resource intensive and i just want to be able to highlight a phone # ANYwhere on my computer and call it, no separate address book.

Cons: still cant recognize a whole bunch of my callers; why dont they email me WAV files of my voicemails?  that is so convenient!.  Why no voice -&#62; text transcribing? simulscribe kicked butt for $10 @ month when i used it.  No SMS support, yet.  Difficult (but no impossible to get your GC # to be the CSID # for your outgoing calls.  Their address book is clumsy, cant organize by company name and a whole bunch of other glitches.  Must I really screen every caller? Why cant I just pick up and say hello?  Grand finale: love it or hate it, it needs SMS support.

Overall: i'll stick with it, its pretty sick and I cant wait for it to get better.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Grand Central 2week (thanks Mark!) report:</p>
<p>Pros: switching between phones mid-call very cool; pressing 4 to record; old-school call-screening &#8220;listen in&#8221; feature; fairly nice web GUI and DTMF GUI via phone. web access via anything other than a wifi enabled phone (hello new blackberry!) sucks. occasional VOIP echo/latency issues. . .overall on par with or better than average cell phone connection (not good when both end points are cell phones).  Integration with gizmo, nice but not perfect - giz seems very resource intensive and i just want to be able to highlight a phone # ANYwhere on my computer and call it, no separate address book.</p>
<p>Cons: still cant recognize a whole bunch of my callers; why dont they email me WAV files of my voicemails?  that is so convenient!.  Why no voice -&gt; text transcribing? simulscribe kicked butt for $10 @ month when i used it.  No SMS support, yet.  Difficult (but no impossible to get your GC # to be the CSID # for your outgoing calls.  Their address book is clumsy, cant organize by company name and a whole bunch of other glitches.  Must I really screen every caller? Why cant I just pick up and say hello?  Grand finale: love it or hate it, it needs SMS support.</p>
<p>Overall: i&#8217;ll stick with it, its pretty sick and I cant wait for it to get better.</p>
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		<title>By: ryan</title>
		<link>http://blog.acmelab.org/2007/09/28/grand-central-invites/#comment-24458</link>
		<dc:creator>ryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>correction, you do know me. . .</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>correction, you do know me. . .</p>
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		<title>By: Mel</title>
		<link>http://blog.acmelab.org/2007/09/28/grand-central-invites/#comment-24456</link>
		<dc:creator>Mel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh yes. Especially since I leave for the Philippines (and then China, and then the Philippines, and then Chicago) tomorrow and am going to be doing the "get a local cellphone" dance once a month until 2008. Please?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh yes. Especially since I leave for the Philippines (and then China, and then the Philippines, and then Chicago) tomorrow and am going to be doing the &#8220;get a local cellphone&#8221; dance once a month until 2008. Please?</p>
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		<title>By: ryan</title>
		<link>http://blog.acmelab.org/2007/09/28/grand-central-invites/#comment-24455</link>
		<dc:creator>ryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>you don't know me, but at least we didn't meet in a restroom.  If you have any grandcentral invites left I would be eternally grateful.  either way, enjoyed your site!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>you don&#8217;t know me, but at least we didn&#8217;t meet in a restroom.  If you have any grandcentral invites left I would be eternally grateful.  either way, enjoyed your site!</p>
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