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Google Releases Browser-Based Google Voice Web App for iPhone

Tuesday January 26, 2010 5:54 am PST by Eric Slivka
Reuters reports that Google has released a new browser-based web app version of Google Voice, offering iPhone users access to a broader array of features than had previously been available through the service's basic mobile interface.

Google already had a version of Google Voice available through mobile Web browsers.

But Google described the new version of Google Voice as a "Web app," noting that it is much more interactive than the previous browser-based version of the service, with the ability to listen to voice mails directly from within the browser and to dial phone numbers on an interactive on-screen keypad.

Google said the new version of Google Voice is designed for iPhone 3.0 and higher and Palm Inc Web OS smartphones.

Apple and Google have offered differing views of whether Apple rejected Google's native Google Voice application for the iPhone, with Apple claiming that it was merely continuing to study the application for inclusion in its App Store. According to today's report, however, Apple has yet to provide any further status updates to Google on the native application's fate.
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websyndicate
Posted: 30 months ago
Its not released yet sometime today it will be
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dwd3885
Posted: 30 months ago
ha. It's a sad excuse of an actual Google Voice app that Apple rejected. Google should just remove everything off of the iPhone for competition sake.
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justanothernerd
Posted: 30 months ago

ha. It's a sad excuse of an actual Google Voice app that Apple rejected. Google should just remove everything off of the iPhone for competition sake.


I'm not sure that's smart for them; I'm sure they still make a lot of money with other Google services on the iPhone.
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MacQuest
Posted: 30 months ago
The plot thickens... :eek: ... ??? :confused:

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dwd3885
Posted: 30 months ago

I'm not sure that's smart for them; I'm sure they still make a lot of money with other Google services on the iPhone.


well they want to pull out of China, which isn't smart business decision either. It's very stupid. So they don't make every decision like a business decision.
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Rodimus Prime
Posted: 30 months ago
I still find it rather sad that Google had to resort to that level. Apple had a stick up it rear and was making up BS excuse for turning it down. It has already been shown that AT&T really does not care about Google voice. They still get the minute charges fom people using it. Hell they get more minute charges from GV because calls route threw GV loses free M2M.

I wonder if Apple will try to shut down this way next. Still it is rather said that it had to go this way. If Apple had approved GV it would could of been really great with push notifications and everything.
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balamw
Posted: 30 months ago

Its not released yet sometime today it will be


Works for me.

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gdlcjr
Posted: 30 months ago
Hey Guys Does this means that the "VoiceCentral Black Swan" will just be the same as the GV new web app?
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cdd543
Posted: 30 months ago
Hmm..tries to dial a different number than i entered. sms works fine.
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gdlcjr
Posted: 30 months ago

Hmm..tries to dial a different number than i entered. sms works fine.


I have not tried it yet, because I have to re-register my number and my company blocks the google voice. Do you need to use an ear phone for the call or the voice goes thru the earpiece?
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