The ONLY way to never loose your phone!

The other day, while doing nothing in particular, i stumbled across GrandCentral. I assure you, this is no reference to the mammoth station on 42nd street!

Are you sick of all those times you have lost you cell phone? We all know how much of a hassle it can sometimes be to even get your own cellphone number back let alone the actual device. What about when you want to switch carriers, possibly to get an iPhone...and cant keep your old number? Well GrandCentral, the brainwave of Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet, is a startup that provides a fascinating service that takes care of this problem. Grandcentral allows you to choose a number and OWN IT FOR LIFE!

Pretty interesting, eh? Thats what i thought. So how do they do this? The number you select is not linked to your sim card, service provider or cell phone. Using an online console, you can control the number you picked. You can then redirect calls that you receive at that number to whatever number you might be using at the time - virtually any number on the planet - all with the click of just a few buttons. Thus making it incredibly simple for you to switch numbers or carriers at any time without confusing the people that call you!

Now obviously the startup offers a whole range of excellent services, if not for which im sure Google wouldn't have been so keen to gobble it up. Check out some of these features:


* Check your messages by phone, email, or online
* Keep all your messages online for eternity
* Record and store your phone calls (just like voice mail)
* Quickly (and secretly) block an annoying caller
* Click-to-dial from your address book
* Surprise your callers with a custom voice mail greeting
* Forward, download, and add notes to your messages

There is a whole bunch of other stuff that makes it fascinating and with a little imagination this technology could be used in a whole range of different ways. A new company for instance could set a number for itself that it might use in marketing material, when it finally raises enough capital to expand into larger offices it doesn't need to rework marketing materials with new numbers. I merely has to log into its account on GrandCentral and redirect its GC number to its new office number. Nice.

Check it out at www.grandcentral.com and let me know how it works for you or what creative uses you can come up for it!