Create a Virtual Phone Number With Grand Central

Scenario: You use multiple phones during your day, each with a different number
Solution: With Grand Central you can use a single number to manage all your phone lines




I remember as a kid that simply having a phone in the house was a big deal. Nowadays, in our collective wisdom we determined that one phone simply isn't enough. There's the home phone, the cell phone, the work phone, the blackberry......many of us are managing 4-5 different devices every day.

Grand Central attempts to restore some order to our telecommunications chaos by allowing users to sign-up and receive a "virtual" phone number. It looks and acts just like a regular phone number (e.g xxx-xxx-xxxx) and it's completely exclusive to you.

But here's where the magic happens. Grand Central allows you to take your new virtual number and to associate it with all your real phone-lines.....so if somebody calls your virtual number all your phones ring simultaneously. At the same time, it allows you to define specific preferences and rules - so perhaps you would only have your cell phone ring if you boyfriend/girlfriend called, or your Blackberry and work desk phone if your boss tried getting in touch.

This is a really useful feature because it means you only need to give out one phone number to friends and work colleagues and then manage everything through the Grand Central website.

Grand Central also has a whole host of other selling-points including the ability to check voicemail on your computer, the ability to record different greetings and control which caller gets which greeting and the option to record any of your calls.

Check out my video review above for a walk-through of some of the features.