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Re:An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4 by dannyr on Friday January 04, 2013 @09:54AM (#5007829)
My main # now is Google Voice. For the past 4 years, there was just 2 instances that I needed MMS.

What's frustrating though is the inability of Google Voice to receive SMS from short codes. Craigslist and Paypal also don't verify accounts with a Google Voice number.

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Re:An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4 by FireBeyond on Friday January 04, 2013 @12:49PM (#5008756)
Perhaps so, but you can't deny that for wider adoption, Google Voice needs to do something about both Short Codes and MMS. Lack of MMS is a dealbreaker for a lot of people, and "text it to my email address", as I explain to friends, is like a paradigm shifting without a clutch (with apologies to Dilbert).
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Re:An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4 by fossuser on Friday January 04, 2013 @11:42AM (#5008384)
Yeah that short code thing sucks - still have to use my non google voice number for that.
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