VoxOx Is Another Way To Get Free Google Voice On Your Desktop

Here’s the deal: When you sign up for VoxOx you get one free number that you can use to hook in to your Google Voice with. You also get free incoming calls (which means incoming AND outgoing calls with Google Voice, cause GV always is the one to call your phone), incoming texts and incoming faxes. Outgoing calls (if you’re dialling straight from the VoxOx client), outgoing texts and outgoing faxes cost money. So while you can get incoming texts to your VoxOx account, responding using that IM window is a bad idea, since you get charged about a penny per text.

But until Google Voice’s desktop client that supports incoming/outgoing SIP-based VOIP calls gets released, this is a decent enough alternative, even if the UI design of the desktop client is a very late ’90s red-on-black affair. Also, VoxOx tells us that they’ll never run out of numbers, like what happened with Sipgate. [VoxOx]