{"id":5683,"date":"2012-08-16T21:58:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T02:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5683"},"modified":"2012-08-16T21:58:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T02:58:24","slug":"using-the-google-nexus-7-tablet-as-a-phone-for-free-a-privacy-hint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5683","title":{"rendered":"Using the Google Nexus 7 Tablet as a Phone, For Free (+ a Privacy Hint)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In short, yes, even though the N7 doesn&#8217;t obviously have phone-related user interfaces, you can use the N7 as a phone for both outgoing and incoming calls via VoIP, and this can be accomplished completely for free via Google Voice accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The fairly easy steps:<\/p>\n<p>Obtain and install the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.snrblabs.grooveip\">GrooVe IP Lite<\/a> (GIPL) app via Google Play. This version is free and has everything you need for this situation. You still might wish to purchase the full version for $5 to support the fine work of the developer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/lauren.vortex.com\/archive\/000979.html\">Lauren Weinstein&#8217;s Blog: Using the Google Nexus 7 Tablet as a Phone, For Free (+ a Privacy Hint)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short, yes, even though the N7 doesn&#8217;t obviously have phone-related user interfaces, you can use the N7 as a phone for both outgoing and incoming calls via VoIP, and this can be accomplished completely for free via Google Voice &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5683\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[753,104,115],"class_list":["post-5683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip","tag-google-voice","tag-howto","tag-tablets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5684,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions\/5684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}