My AT&T iPhone has been bugging me, despite it having that super unlimited data plan, I was paying $80 per month for a phone that I wasn't really using (as a phone) and it was time to make some changes.
I'd already bought a Project Fi phone, which costs $20 per month plus $10 per gig of data. I like it because (when it works) the international roaming and data is great, and there's no fussing. Basically I've been wandering around with two phones on me, paying two bills, since that move.
Last week I ported my number from AT&T to Twilio, where I'm paying $1 per month for a number, and I pay some forwarding charges if anyone is to call me on the old number. Twilio is a pretty amazing piece of technology, and if you are techy, you can do a lot with it.
Pricing
If you see the "Red Plus" icon above, this is where you edit the reaction. It's programmable, so you could make it read a message, push the call to a new number, or any number of fancy phone like things.
Here's a list of 'Verbs' that can execute commands, to see if there's anything interesting there:
The syntax of the code is pretty clean and easy, for example, to forward to the new phone:
It also allows you to forward SMS messages:
With this sort of functionality, you could decide if you want to forward everything, making the transition to the single phone number invisible, or if you'd like to 'auto-respond' with a message like 'hey, I'm changing phones, my new number is 123-456-7890'.
Overall, I'm really happy with this solution, it works great, keeps my old number, and gets me to take that final step I had of moving away from AT&T. I may in the future pick up a data only SIM for the iPhone I have, or drop the Fi Nexus 5x and make the iPhone my primary phone.
I also set up click to call tech from within my CRM using this, which is also pretty cool....
I'd already bought a Project Fi phone, which costs $20 per month plus $10 per gig of data. I like it because (when it works) the international roaming and data is great, and there's no fussing. Basically I've been wandering around with two phones on me, paying two bills, since that move.
Last week I ported my number from AT&T to Twilio, where I'm paying $1 per month for a number, and I pay some forwarding charges if anyone is to call me on the old number. Twilio is a pretty amazing piece of technology, and if you are techy, you can do a lot with it.
Pricing
If you see the "Red Plus" icon above, this is where you edit the reaction. It's programmable, so you could make it read a message, push the call to a new number, or any number of fancy phone like things.
Here's a list of 'Verbs' that can execute commands, to see if there's anything interesting there:
The syntax of the code is pretty clean and easy, for example, to forward to the new phone:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Response>
<Dial>
+1-205-444-5555
</Dial>
</Response>
Code:
<Response>
<Message to="+12065551212">{{From}}: {{Body}}</Message>
</Response>
Overall, I'm really happy with this solution, it works great, keeps my old number, and gets me to take that final step I had of moving away from AT&T. I may in the future pick up a data only SIM for the iPhone I have, or drop the Fi Nexus 5x and make the iPhone my primary phone.
I also set up click to call tech from within my CRM using this, which is also pretty cool....