It’s been a long, long, long time since Google Voice gained any new features or even received much attention from Google. But it appears that’s about to change. Maybe. Hopefully.

Today there’s a banner at the top of the Google Voice website that says “The New Google Voice is here.” There’s a clickable link to “try now,” and that URL points to: https://www.google.com/voice/b/0/redirection/new. Some people are seeing it, and others are not.

But as of right now, heading to that site just reloads the existing Google Voice website without any visible changes or updates. Either this banner is being shown much earlier than Google intended, or it’s a cruel tease and we’re seeing some years-old text thanks to a bug.

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