Utility
Google Voice
Google Voice is an amazing service that does a host of things to improve how you manage your contacts, voicemail, and general phone usage on your HTC Incredible and other phones. You’ll first need to sign-up for the Google Voice service and attach your existing Verizon phone number to the account. Google Voice will now give you a new number that lets it act as a centralized clearing house for all of your phones. You just hand out your Google Voice number as your personal contact number henceforth and any calls made to that number will be forwarded to your HTC Incredible.
Now for the cool stuff. Google Voice handles all your Voicemail for you, and actually transcribes them as they come in – so you can read your Voicemail just like you would email. The transcription is very good, and even if there are errors you can usually easily guess what the transcriber got wrong. There are plenty of other things you can do, including have your calls forwarded to a different phone (say your office phone) with a click of a button – you’ll never have to be out of reach again, and more importantly, you’ll never have to give out a different number every time you travel. A must-have free app to go with a wonderful free service.