Comments on: GrandCentral Mobile Is Live

By: Google To Acquire GrandCentral

Google To Acquire GrandCentral — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:29:24 +0000

[...] from beta users abandoning the service in March. Still, the company pushed ahead, launching a mobile product and other [...]

By: Sy

Sy — Thu, 17 May 2007 23:54:55 +0000

Craig,

Any chance that you will be adding “212″ numbers as well. I know of other VOIP who do so already. It would be nice, if this wish became a reality.

By: Boris Elpiner

Boris Elpiner — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:25:27 +0000

This is Boris Elpiner from RingCentral. It’s interesting to see RingCentral mentioned in several discussions involving GrandCentral.

Alejandro, I think you’ve asked good questions that really define differences in the two services. RingCentral is designed specifically for small businesses. GrandCentral offers some very cool features that are, I’m sure, are great for consumers. RingCentral is a virtual phone system that is a lifeline for tens of thousands of small businesses.

BTW, RingCentral developed and owns all of the technology for our service. We just could not get the functionality and value our customers demand from Asterisk or any currently available commercial platform.

Great comments, I’m glad that the Web-based telecom is getting so much interest.

Boris Elpiner – RingCentral

By: testing123

testing123 — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:33:43 +0000

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By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:51:58 +0000

GrandCentral is a pretty innovative product…I setup an account though it hasn’t become a central part of my life yet.

By: CrackBerryJunkie

CrackBerryJunkie — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:15:39 +0000

GrandCentral Goes Mobile…

Telephone management startup GrandCentral launched a mobile version of the service yesterday, although they have not announced the product yet. The mobile site is available at grancentral.com/mobile. It will not load properly from a desktop browser, bu…

By: HelloAgain

HelloAgain — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:57:01 +0000

I kinda get it, but like Gslacks said, can money be made off of it?

By: Gslacks

Gslacks — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:38:55 +0000

I think Grand Central is a great idea and I’ve been seeing a bunch of press about them lately. The problem with Grand Central is the service is only functional until they go out of business. I can’t see people paying any kind of montly fee for this…so I would give the company about a year before its dead.

By: pallet jack

pallet jack — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:26:02 +0000

Seems like a great – idea. The market is better than most startups featured on Techcrunch.

– Most enter an over crowded market / etc …. This one has a very good chance

By: Rufo Sanchez

Rufo Sanchez — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:00:58 +0000

Craig,
I (and several other people I’ve pointed toward GrandCentral) await with bated breath.

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:12:45 +0000

I have been very impressed with GrandCentral in the few weeks I've been using it for a work phone number outside my home area code. I have never had a problem with it. Just wanted to point out that the GrandCentral blog says that the click-to-call feature in the mobile version (and I assume the desktop version) is only free "for a few days." I guess pricing will be announced shortly for premium features.

By: Vincent Paquet

Vincent Paquet — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:38:53 +0000

Aaron,
Older Blackberry models don’t seem to play MP3s. I believe they started with the Pearl. It works with the 8800 as well. The new models have a totally seamless integration between the browser and the MP3 player.
Vincent

By: Sappy

Sappy — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:31:42 +0000

Cool Info

By: Hackaback

Hackaback — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:29:50 +0000

Awesome thing

By: Aaron Myers

Aaron Myers — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:18:15 +0000

I can’t get it to work on my Blackberry 8100. The website works fine, when I try to listen to a message it freaks out.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:43:55 +0000

Rufo…Sorry about Rochester, but we’ll get more local numbers added shortly. We’re adding a bunch of new NPA-NXX numbers and thought we had Rochester covered already. – Craig

By: Tony Delk

Tony Delk — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:20:07 +0000

This works great on my desktop browser too. Seems like it’s a great way for users who don’t have flash (or have disabled flash) to use grandcentral.

By: JT

JT — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:04:26 +0000

Nice feature I noticed of the mobile version is you can have it call any number for you. It’ll dial your phone first, then after you answer it’ll dial the other party but the cool part is that now the other parties caller id shows your grandcentral number, not your cell of home number. Excellent for home businesses or new startups

By: Major B

Major B — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:52:17 +0000

Seriously — does this have major bugs — I hate that when these companies are full of holes in their service!

By: Wes

Wes — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:12:07 +0000

Yeah, looks similar to YouMail.

By: Maia Bittner

Maia Bittner — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:00:55 +0000

Isn't this the same as YouMail?

By: Alexander Plank

Alexander Plank — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:45:14 +0000

The mobile version loads perfectly fine in Firefox…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:10:15 +0000

Terrible service. Never works like it should. I have missed many important calls because of this service.

By: Rufo Sanchez

Rufo Sanchez — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:08:39 +0000

GrandCentral is neat, but I wish they would’ve looked into their LATAs a bit more – the numbers they’re handing out for 585 aren’t part of the Rochester LATA and are long-distance calls (and Rochester is the only major city in the 585 area code – the numbers they’re handing out are one of the few that are not local calls from Rochester.)

Once they get that straightened out, I’ll be handing out my (new) GrandCentral number like candy.

By: Max Hyatt

Max Hyatt — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:05:14 +0000

I currently use GrandCentral, and have to say its a great service. Having a mobile version of GrandCentral almost offers all that I could ask of them. I only wish they’d get SMS forwarding to work. I’d like to have messages sent to my GC account forwarded to my cell phone. That’ll complete this service for me.

-Max Hyatt