Invitation to GrandCentral
So after a very long wait, I received my invitation to GrandCentral back in the fall. The service is still in closed beta. GrandCentral, now owned by Google, is a service that gives you a single phone number which rings a collection of other numbers that you define for schedules, people, groups and such. I’ve played with other versions of this kind of service and was always less than impressed by the features. GrandCentral really raises the bar. One feature allows you to transfer a call from your office phone to your cell phone without the person on the other end of the call noticing anything, which is very slick. I’ll have a complete review of GrandCentral once I get a chance to really put it through its paces.
For now, I’ve got a limited number of invitations to the private beta. I’ll accept bribes or sweet talk if you want to try out the service. Click the button below to leave me a voicemail with your name, email and a good reason why you should get to try it out.
Ebay to Google… Skype + GrandCentral x Android = :-) | The Piano Inside My Brain wrote:
[...] Invitation to GrandCentral [...]
Posted on 02-Apr-08 at 2:10 pm | Permalink
Bevin wrote:
My only phone number is a mobile phone number, and apparently whoever had my number before me had very bad credit and a habit of giving the number to everyone and everything. Although I remind unwanted callers that I’m on the national “Do Not Call” registry, they insist that if a number has done business with them in the past, they’re entitled to call it. When I read the descriptions of the screening and blocking features available through GrandCentral, I got very excited until I found out that I have to have an invitation from a current user. Can you please help me out?
Posted on 11-Apr-08 at 2:32 pm | Permalink
Howard Yermish wrote:
Looks like I’m out of invitations. You should be able to go here and sign up: http://www.grandcentral.com/home/reserve
Posted on 11-Apr-08 at 3:00 pm | Permalink
The Piano Inside My Brain / GrandCentral goes dark without notice wrote:
[...] will complain about this violently should remember… FREE and BETA do not mean RELIABLE. Yes, GrandCentral hopes to be a phone company someday. But as someone who has grown up with technology for my entire life, I know what to ultimately [...]
Posted on 13-Apr-08 at 2:27 pm | Permalink
Keoki wrote:
Can You please send me an invite? My email is [...]. I would like to use it while I do my tour of duty to keep in touch with family and friends while in Iraq. Thanks!. I have been looking for awhile and I am due to deploy in a couple of weeks.
Posted on 09-May-08 at 7:46 pm | Permalink
Howard Yermish wrote:
I wish that I could help you out. Apparently, everyone’s invitations have been turned off for GrandCentral.
There is a post in the Google Groups about it here.
You may just want to go to the homepage of GrandCentral and reserve a number.
You may want to try a SkypeIn number, this way your friends can still make a local call and I believe that you can have it forward to your phone or to voicemail.
http://www.skype.com/allfeatures/callforwarding/
Posted on 10-May-08 at 5:13 am | Permalink