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Google Voice is the new name for Google's GrandCentral email forwarding system, which will give the user a phone number for their Google Voice account. You can then give this number out to people, and when they call you, you can then store their incoming number, so that you can have a different ring tone for them, and store their number in a group, like "friends", "the boss", or "family". Once stored, you can change the settings for each individual caller, routing their calls to specific phones, the computer or straight to voice mail.

At no cost to the user, except for your normal telephone charges, Google Voice will forward voicemail to where you have routed the number to go, so that a voicemail from your wife would go straight to your 3-G phone, and one from your boss would go straight to your cell phone or laptop. And the computer can read the voicemail to you, as long as you have voice recognition software installed and running properly. Phone calls into your cell phone can be taken at the computer, and vice-versa, making one number have complete control over all of your telecommunications gear.

Google Voice has the potential to take over the telecommunications market with the demographics of people between the ages of 16 and up. If you have a land-line telephone, cellular telephone, and voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) phone numbers, you can have all of them ring at the same time when receiving a call through Google Voice. On top of your computer ringing as well, in order to amalgamate all of your telephones into one customizable service, you will be able to block, avoid or include any incoming calls, from any source, through any source.

When you combine a Google Voice phone number, at no cost, with your existing telephone numbers, landline and/or mobile, you can have all of your phones ring at the same time when you have an incoming Google Voice phone call. Answer the call with any, or the closest phone, or leave it to Google to take care of if you are busy, or just don't want to talk to who's calling. Google Voice has caller ID, which will show you the name, phone number, Google Voice number, email address and/or screen name of the person calling.

For people who are hard of hearing, the deaf, or the simply lazy, Google Voice will be able to display the name of the person calling your cell phone on your computer's display. You will also be able to have a different ring announcement for each number that calls, so you can have the computer say "Mom is calling"

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