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Google Voice app for iOS available now
The official Google Voice application for the iPhone has finally arrived in the iTunes App Store. After more than a year from Apple's rejection of Google's first Voice app for the iPhone, almost ten months since Google responded with an HTML5-based mobile Web app, and about 6 weeks since it was reportedly approved by Apple, it's here.
The app has all the features you'd expect, including getting cheap rates for international calls, free texts to US numbers, voicemail transcription, and displaying your Google Voice number as your caller ID when making calls. It also has support for push notifications, to instantly alert you when you receive a new voicemail or text message. Google says that 'most' of the calls made through this app will be placed via Direct Access Numbers -- Google assigns a unique phone number to each person you call, which results in the app not needing to connect to the internet every time you place a call, thus making the whole calling experience much faster.
To use the new app, a Google Voice account and an iPhone with iOS 3.1 or newer are required.
Download Google Voice for iPhone from the iTunes App Store
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Subscribe to commentssuperrrguyNov 16th 2010 4:59PM
Finally, really didn't like those 3rd party apps.
GodNov 16th 2010 4:59PM
maybe i won’t forget this day after all apple… ...
Matt S.Nov 17th 2010 1:36AM
We wait this long and they purposely exclude iPod Touch users? Its obviously been proven you don't need a phone to use GV.. Who's to blame, Apple or Google? sighhh
Matt S.Nov 17th 2010 1:36AM
We wait this long and they purposely exclude iPod Touch users? Its obviously been proven you don't need a phone to use GV.. Who's to blame, Apple or Google? sighhh
Big DanNov 17th 2010 2:23PM
I'm with Matt, it's ridiculous to exclude iPod Touch users. I was looking forward to using to official app for texting. I don't think this is Apple's fault here as there are plenty of other apps that essentially turn your iPod Touch into a phone. Maybe it's coded in such a way that it depends on being able to use the iPhone's phone dialer?