A Google Voice desktop app could soon let you field your mobile calls straight from your PC, merging your mobile and computer all under one contact number. That’s according to one industry insider in Silicon Valley, so read on for the details.
We’re still waiting patiently for the search giant to bring Google Voice to the UK, but in the meantime, the clever mobile service which lets you receive and filter calls from one centre number to different handsets could be set to work with computers too.
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington reports that Google has now built a Google Voice desktop application, and is testing it internally with staff. The blog doesn’t provide many details but does confirm you’ll be able to make and receive calls through it, and hints that the program is the result of Google’s purchase of VOIP technology start up Gizmo5.
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That’s great news, as it could finally mean true integration of your computer with your mobile phone, which both Microsoft and Apple have failed to offer with their desktop operating systems. Google Voice already allows you to give out just one number to everyone, but with this, you could handle calls as soon as you sit down at your desk without having to look away from your monitor.
It could also give scope for a lot more in the future too, like the sort of seamless social network integration on modern smartphones: you’d answer a call, and be presented with all your contact’s emails, updates, texts and more, right on the screen in front of you.
We’re hopeful that Google Voice’s other features like voicemail transcription and free SMS also make it over to a Google Voice desktop application, since it’d make perfect sense to type and read them on a big screen while at your desk, rather than squinting on your phone’s tiny screen. Of course, we’d also like to use Google Voice in any form at all in the UK, so if you’d like to make that happen pronto please Google, we’d be very grateful.
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