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		lovemenot on Oct 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nexus 5 That has always been the case, but is not so today. Google Play knows where I am as it offered the Nexus5 in Japanese Yen. Nevertheless I successsfully installed Google Voice just now.

deong on Nov 1, 2013 [–]

Can you set it up? I've always been able to install the APK, but if you don't already have a GV number, it wants to send an SMS to a real phone number as part of the setup, and that number needed to be American.

lovemenot on Nov 1, 2013 | [–]

As you say, cannot set it up. I guess nothing has changed.

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