Google Voice, the smart web phone service that transcribes voice mails, links your phones and lets you make cheap calls is back on the iPhone. Apple may have blocked it from the App Store, but there’s no blocking a web app, especially one as essential as this.
We’ve seen polished web apps using HTML5 to give the appearance of a native iPhone app before, and now Google’s taken the route (for the second time, in fact) to bring back Google Voice on Apple’s smartphone – and the Palm Pre and Pixi too.
If you’re a lucky Google Voice user, you can now point your iPhone to m.google.com/voice and get calling. Despite essentially being a tweaked webpage, the Google Voice iPhone web app functionality is impressive: you can dial from the page and call out, and see all your Google contacts.
Apple: We didn’t reject Google Voice
The Google Voice web app is available now for all you lucky readers in the US, but for us Brits, it’s still one in the eye for Apple, which prides itself on keeping elements of the iPhone – namely the dialler – on lockdown from third party developers. Here’s hoping that with Google’s clout and Google Voice’s popularity, Apple will change its ways by the time it lands in the UK.
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