It won't work on a VoIP devices but that's what makes it special. It takes a few steps to set up the service, but you can manage it from any device that has a web browser and it's integrated to make calls within Gmail.Īnd even better, you can use it on almost any mobile phone without having to use an app. Video quality and audio quality are great and it works cross platform.īut Google Voice takes this round with a 4 and Skype gets a 3.7. You can't underestimate the fact that this app works globally.
Now, Skype's killer features are its video and voice chats and this might go to when I'm talking to friends internationally. The visual voicemail through the web browser is money. Wondering if you wanna play a little football, tossing around a little pigskin, you know. The transcription is anything but perfect. Google Voice gets a major kudos for forwarding your calls from your Google Voice number to your mobile phone number and you'll get text messages with transcriptions when someone leaves a message. In round one, Google Voice gets a 4 and Skype gets a 3. It's also disappointing that Skype is lagging behind on mobile devices there. Now, if you're talking mobile, Skype has an app available for a majority of the top phones, but we found out that it always isn't the snappiest. We feel like you could also use an update visually because, honestly, some of those icons are a little junky. Now, Skype is the original VoIP app and it's pretty basic and design like an IM client for the desktop. Google Voice has mobile apps where you don't even need an app to take advantage of the service once it's set up. Standard little 3rd party apps and browser plug-ins exist, but the Google freaks, they use the browser.
Google Voice lives in your browser and if you live in the Google World like Nicole does, you'll like its tight integration. We know these services aren't really identical to each other, but they're both worthy for this 4 round bracket.īoth services live on your desktop and mobile devices but that's where the similarities end. The final Prizefight score will be an average of all rounds using the same decimal system. Now, we'll take all of 3 judge's blind scores and average them out to the nearest 10th each round. Our judges for this fight: our senior associate editor, Nicole "Ice Cold" Lee senior associate editor, Jessica "Duke it Out" Dolcourt and yours truly, all-night-long Tong. It's a Prizefight push-out between Google Voice and Skype. I'm Brian Tong and we have a face-off between two of the hottest voice over IP services.
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