Finally Google Voice for the Iphone? Not quite yet.
Monday, September 20, 2010 at 10:20PM Google Voice is back on the iPhone! More than a year after the mysterious ban of all Google Voice apps from the iPhone App Store, Apple reversed its decision and admitted two third party apps: GV Connect and GV Mobile+.
So is Google Voice on the iPhone finally on par with the Android version. Not so much. While the apps give convenient access to the iPhone address book and the various voice and text messages stored on Google Voice, they still do the callback thing: you dial a number and Google Voice calls you back to the cellphone. Too slow, too cumbersome, too annoying. The web app at http://m.google.com/voice does it better: it calls a special number at Google to establish the connection.
This is probably due to limitations in the Google Voice API and not the developers' fault, but unfortunately we still have to wait longer until Google Voice calls are as straightforward as native cellphone calls on the iPhone.
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