Google Voice Can Handle Your Current Phone's Voicemails

Voicemail on most phones sucks! Google Voice can now handle all your voicemails from your original mobile number, no need to get another Google Voice number.

Expect to See Your Voicemail in Your Gail Soon [ooooohh]m

According to Lifehacker, and my own tests, if you use labels in Gmail, you can't create a label titled "voicemail" You will get a error like the one above saying that that name has already been taken. But if you scroll through your labels, you will see that you don't have a label named "voicemail"

Instead you get the following message: "Sorry, you can't create a label named "voicemail" (it's a reserved system label). Please try another name."

It's because Google has taken the liberty of creating a label with that name. Why? Well considering that a few days ago, Google introduced Google Voice, we can safely assume that Google will be trying to soon bring your Google Voice inbox into your Gmail inbox. Hence, whenever you get a voicemail, you'll get a verbatim transcript (maybe even audio attachment?) as an email. Very, very cool and, as usual for Google, useful! [Lifehacker]

Google Voice

Google Voice lets you read a transcribed voicemail. It used to be called GrandCentral, a one number web app that routes all your calls to a single number. Anyway, its now back and better than ever. You can get the voicemails emailed to you if you want or you can just keep them in your Google Voice inbox.

Right now, Google Voice is open only for Grand Central customers.