Google Voice is making waves again in the iPhone world.
Apple rejected Google Voice iPhone app last summer. AT&T and Apple shifted blame on each other with even the FCC getting involved. But, as of today neither Apple or AT&T have budged to approve the Google Voice iPhone app in the App Store even though they announced that VOIP iPhone apps can use 3G.
Google has just announced that Google Voice is now available to both iPhone and Palm Pre/Pixi as a web app. The new Google Voice interface is built on HTML5 with most of the functionality in the original iPhone app that was rejected by Apple.
One major difference between the original iPhone app and the current browser based Google voice is that the iPhone contact list cannot be accessed by the web app. However, it manages a separate contact list that is stored in the cloud just like Google Contacts.
The new Google Voice interface is very slick indeed with a iPhone keypad like interface – Dialer – for dialing phone numbers.
Also with the nav bar, you can switch to ‘Dialer’ ‘Compose SMS’, ‘Inbox’, or ‘Contacts’. You can use the Google Voice interface to send free interface and make cheap international calls using data connection.
With the HTML5 technology providing the functionality and the speed only a native application can provide, Google Voice web app goes to prove how sophisticated the next generation web applications are going to be in the future.
If you have a jailbroken iPhone, you could consider using GV Mobile iPhone app for Google Voice.
You can access the new Google Voice Web App at http://m.google.com/voice
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[via Google Mobile blog]
