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Google Voice may hit your desktop soon, as a Skype competitor
According to Mike Arrington at TechCrunch, Google has begun testing a Skype-like Google Voice desktop app. The new app uses VoIP technology that was acquired by Google when it bought out Gizmo5 late last year. That means you could soon be taking calls to your Google Voice number, right on your desktop.It's only an internal test so far, so there's no public beta to download. If TechCrunch's sources are accurate, though, this will unchain Google Voice numbers from physical phones. You'll be able to use your Google number the same way that people use SkypeIn numbers now: you won't have to have an actual phone, but you can receive any kind of incoming call on your desktop. This could be the coolest thing to happen to phone calls since Google Voice itself.
Ed. note: Our own Google sources have confirmed this as well, saying "We're looking at a full, free, VOIP/SMS desktop client...It's amazing."
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Subscribe to commentscrankcallerApr 8th 2010 8:54AM
*Hmm*
How about coming to the UK with Google Voice please!
SquareWheelApr 8th 2010 9:05AM
Hot damn! Now if only they could only expand the service to other countries, we'd be laughing.
216Apr 8th 2010 9:08AM
Nice
JennApr 8th 2010 12:47PM
How can it fully compete with skype if its only in the U.S?
GihanApr 8th 2010 9:24AM
Wake me up when they open Google voice up to Canada....
whiskeyApr 8th 2010 11:02AM
Which is kind of why Google bought that Gizmo5 thing, right?
chrisarozApr 8th 2010 11:29AM
Exactly what I thought.
JohnApr 8th 2010 12:11PM
I love Google!!!!!
daromeApr 8th 2010 4:14PM
I am warning you, if Google doesn't start allowing Canadians to use Google phone you will have to deal with mass illegal immigration from Canada to the USA. Ok , you rejected us when we asked to become the 53rd state but enough is enough. This is cruel and unusual punishment for having supported the wrong side of the war in 1812 . If you don't want to have to deal with illegal immigrants from Canada you guys better start letting us use Google Phone before all these new improvements . Note ,you have been forewarned.
An eager Google everything user from over the 49th parallel!
milan.regecApr 9th 2010 3:57AM
Well, I am taking calls to my Google Voice number on my dekstop for over six months now - for free. How about some creativity? I thought you guys at DownloadSquad can do better. There are plenty free VOIP clients out there.
And, for those whining, I live in Europe. And while I have plenty U.S. friends I didn't need their help. Yes, I spent weekend on how to do it, but it was well worth it.
daromeApr 9th 2010 1:16PM
stay in europe and stay out of arguments between Canadians and Americans! When you grow up and understand that hey is for horses or ex Canadians maybe we will let you into Canada. After that you can immigrate to the states with the rest of us. Hey i am sick of using vpn's and annonomizers to illegally bypass what should be free anyways. there are no free voip clients which allow give you both a number and allow you to call PSTN lines for free legally. skype is great for most but if we can get it for free it will be a revolution which will modernize the capitalist world.and send AT &T to the gulag or similar.
kmessina2004Apr 10th 2010 4:33PM
You can already make desktop calls via gizmo5 and use as an SIP phone and setup the SIP thru sipsorcery and then thru a number of SIP softphones. Zoiper allows calls and video thru google, and eventually I find out how to fax via VOIP...so what the big deal of them having their own "app" for google voice?