[encoderer]

I'm guessing you're not on Sprint?

The reason is, when you're on Sprint, you don't have to go through the "porting" process that you do if you're on other carriers. Your existing number stays your sprint number, but also becomes a GV number. Also, they now are rolling out MMS to sprint users. And even before they had MMS support, it's not like you didn't get them -- they just went directly to your phone and weren't available in your GV inbox.

The biggest (and only real) downside I experience is that yes, there is a lag (the phone rings several times) before my phone starts ringing. But it's not exactly tragic.

[paul9290]

So with this Sprint and Google Voice integration can I have my text messages going to my gmail and to the iMessage app at the same time?

I want to continue to use Siri for many things including sending text messages. I'm pretty sure I can only use Siri to send/receive text messages by using the iMessage app only?

[dmpatierno]

I did do this on Sprint, and I didn't like it for the reasons I stated. Google Voice numbers can only receive MMS from Sprint numbers. That effectively means I can't tell people to MMS me, since I don't always know what carriers they're on.

[encoderer]

No, not so fast.

What you said -- "Google Voice numbers can only receive MMS from Sprint numbers" -- is true.

But if you're on sprint, you no longer need to use a "Google Voice" number. You just use your sprint number. It's able to verify that the number you type in is Sprint, and if so, it connects it behind the scenes to GV and disables any add'l GV number you're given.

When you do it this way -- the "proper" way to use GV on sprint -- then MMS pose no problem. ANYBODY can send me an MMS. It won't show up in the GV app unless it's sent by another Sprint user. If it's sent from another carrier, GV will ignore it and it'll show up, like any other message, in the native Android messaging app.