For years, I used my Kindle + Google Voice as my portable “phone.”
I’d get voicemails (transcribed) and text messages to my Gmail and could text back from there. Gmail even had a lite version that worked quite well on the Kindle’s experimental browser. Fortunately, my needs for making/receiving an actual call on-the-go were nearly non-existent so it worked quite well.
Was really sad when they pulled the plug on the free 3G.
I’d get voicemails (transcribed) and text messages to my Gmail and could text back from there. Gmail even had a lite version that worked quite well on the Kindle’s experimental browser. Fortunately, my needs for making/receiving an actual call on-the-go were nearly non-existent so it worked quite well.
Was really sad when they pulled the plug on the free 3G.