Google Voice is extremely simple to setup and use.
Even if you want to dive into the "Settings" which is probably the most "complex" part of the app, each little settings item has a tiny question-mark that you can click and a bubble explains what you're turning on/off etc. I'd say GV is easier than GMail but I'm sure the subject is probably newer to most people (phone routing vs. email)
Other than that, there's not really much to set or configure. You pick a number, choose what number you want to forward it to and you're ready to go. I sat around for an hour thinking up 7-digit vanity numbers and managed to score one, so I'm sticking with it instead of going for number portability. With that in mind, Google really needs to give us a way to dial out with our GV# as the caller ID (from our phones).
This already exists - if you call your own GV # from one of the lines registered in it and require a PIN to login, you can place calls via a touchtone interface.
I hear there's an Android app that streamlines the process.
Even if you want to dive into the "Settings" which is probably the most "complex" part of the app, each little settings item has a tiny question-mark that you can click and a bubble explains what you're turning on/off etc. I'd say GV is easier than GMail but I'm sure the subject is probably newer to most people (phone routing vs. email)
Other than that, there's not really much to set or configure. You pick a number, choose what number you want to forward it to and you're ready to go. I sat around for an hour thinking up 7-digit vanity numbers and managed to score one, so I'm sticking with it instead of going for number portability. With that in mind, Google really needs to give us a way to dial out with our GV# as the caller ID (from our phones).