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1. ryan 9.28.07 / 6pm

   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!
2. Mel 9.28.07 / 11pm

   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?
3. ryan 9.29.07 / 3pm

   correction, you do know me. . .
4. ryan 10.15.07 / 9pm

   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 -> 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.

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