If you do not possess an Android mobile phone, Black Berry or an iPhone it does not mean that you will not be able to send text messages from your mobile phones by utilising your Google Voice number.

Indeed you can utilise Google Voice SMS capabilities enabled on any phone. If you possess an Android phone, Blackberry or iphone it is possible for you to use the same method to utilise the native SMS app on it. It is an in convenient method, how ever it works.

First log into Google Voice and configure it to send text messages to your mobile phone. When somebody sends a text message to your Google Voice number, you will get the text on your mobile phones not from the recipient's mobile number.

In its place it will be a 406 number you have not seen before, with the person's name prior to the message.

You can now enter that number to your recipient's address book entry as "Other" or a custom label (such as "GV SMS). Each and every text recipients will have a dissimilar 406 number.

If you SMS that 406 from there your recipient will be getting text messages from you that will appear to be that they are coming from your Google Voice number.

The replies send by them will go back to your Google Voice number and comes to you through the 406- your recipient will no longer be able to see the 406 number.

The above guidelines will guide you to go along with the changes and start using Google Voice's significant features with much more ease.