There is a big fuss this week in all the places that track new phone services about Google Voice. Most of the buzz is positive but a few have noticed the negatives. First off, the service is actually only available to CURRENT subscribers to GrandCentral, the service Google bought two years ago which has been closed to new users ever since. But what nobody is saying is that it is actually only open to SOME of even those users. In other words, this is even more beta than most of Google’s offerings.

Second, there is actually nothing new at all [...]