[Karunamon]

That is an option - the other thing you can do is get a Softphone app on your phone and log into the service with it. They work with text messages as well.

That is the one downside of this is now having two numbers to deal with. I was getting so many garbage calls though, the trade off has been worth it.

[xur17]

Don't you get spam calls directly to your phone now (this is the problem I have with Google Voice)?

[Karunamon]

Yes, but once you've got this "call screening" set up on your formerly primary phone number, you can safely set your phone to discard all calls from people not on your contacts list.

This introduces two ways of working with the service - either you set the service to show "your" phone number as the calling party, and then listen to the name when picking up, or you ignore this and use the softphone app for all calls.