“The original OBi100 adapter lost its connectivity within a couple of years because of changes made to Google Voice.”
I used both until 5 years ago. Was a great free landline until.....
Now I have google voice on my smart phone. So now have 2 telephone numbers that I use. The real smart phone number plus the google voice number.
I have google voice on my desktop computer so that I can easily type and text people/ You can install google voice on a laptop or tablet and use it as a telephone. With a headset w microphone I can do same w my desktop...
With smart phone I am on google voice anywhere via phones data plan. With all the others above I must be on a Wi-Fi. Mainly on my home Wi-Fi.... But It might be Home Depots Wi-Fi or at Starbucks Wi-Fi
That is great to hear. In our case we can hook up on old android phone to our wireless handsets and answering machine using blue tooth. I just haven't had to do this. I also haven't bothered to use the Google Voice App on my primary cell phone because it has unlimited voice, data, and texts for a very low price anyway. But I have used it out and about on my tablets which work just like they are a giant handset or a speaker phone.
Google Voice has saved me and my extended family a lot of money over the years. Google has said that they have no intentions to cancel the service or even cut off the service to ObiHai devices that use the service; it supposedly was security issues that ended the OBi100. I can see that as being an issue sometime in the future with OBi200 series devices.
But there is supposedly a workaround for continued free home phone service using Callcentric... https://www.callcentric.com/
According to the link that I put in my last post this will work with Google Voice using a little configuration wizardry.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Googlevoice/comments/18inqwk/use_google_voice_with_an_internet_telephone/
Comcast is constantly trying to sign us up for their voice service. I am always baffled as to why people would do this... other than the convenience and maybe a little better reliability they are basically paying for something that they could get for free with just a little bit of research and a very small investment in hardware...