HTC G2 manual Placing calls with Google Voice, To check your account balance

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Placing calls with Google Voice

Placing calls with Google Voice is almost the same as placing calls via your mobile carrier, depending on whether you have a Google number and how you have configured Google Voice on the phone.

If you already have a Google Voice account with a Google phone number, you can configure your phone to place some or all calls via Google Voice. The people you call will see your Google phone number instead of your cell phone number as your caller ID.

To learn more about Google Voice, including how to get a Google Voice number, go to http://www.google.com/voice.

You don’t use the Voice application to place calls—you do that with the Phone application.

1Call a contact just as you would without Google Voice.

2If you’ve configured Google Voice to ask whether you want to use it each time you place a call, touch Call with Google Voice in the dialog.

If you’ve configured Google Voice to use it for all calls, this dialog doesn’t appear.

Google Voice displays a message, reminding you that you are placing the call via Google Voice.

If the call is a toll call, Google Voice plays a message with the per- minute charge and the number of minutes at this rate you have remaining in your Google Voice account.

3Continue with the call as you would without Google Voice, as described in “Placing and receiving calls” on page 80.

To check your account balance

When you first create a Google Voice account, you have a balance of US$0.10 for toll calls. You must log into your account using a browser to add to your balance, but you can check your current balance on the phone.

SIn your Google Voice Inbox, press Menu and touch Balance. A dialog displays your current account balance.

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