It’s finally here. Google’s snazzy new phone service is slowly becoming available to one and all. Google Voice is a one-stop shop for all your phoning needs, combining all of your phone numbers into a single number and even routing all of your extra phone services to one device. The beauty of simplification has a lot of appeal for the phone-stressed time in which we live. Now, it’s available on a wider scale.

During the test phase, Google Voice was a service that only GrandCentral customers could use. GrandCentral, a shiny new toy that Google bought two years ago, was the predecessor of the new-and-improved Google Voice. Demand for the service was greater than the smallish number of GrandCentral subscribers, so Google opened the gates wider to those potential users who had requested the service before. Now, Google Voice is taking invitation requests from any and all users. The official site reads, “Google Voice is currently available for GrandCentral users only, but will be open to new users soon. In the meantime, please leave us your email address and we’ll notify you as soon as Google Voice becomes available.”

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As much as Google would like to protest that they are not launching a gPhone because they wish to focus on The Open Handset Alliance and “Android“, we have found out that it’s actually because ‘gPhone’ is a terrible name for a phone product.

Everyone knows that the closer the first letter of somethings name is to the end of the alphabet, the cooler that thing will be as a result. Based on this scale the iPhone is clearly cooler than the gPhone. So all they need to do is call it the zGoogle or zPhone and they are onto a sure winner…. then again, the Zune starts with a ‘z’ and look where that is in the cool ratings!

In any case Google are sure to wow us with their upcoming tech, but lets just hope it doesn’t have as many holes in it as Open Social eh?

UPDATE: Seems that opensocial has been hacked again!

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