The Google Voice Application battle with Apple’s App Store has come to a close. You can now download the official client, coded by the keyboard wizards from Mountain View, for your iOS devices free today.
The app currently sits with four out of five stars based on the 317 ratings received thus far. Key features to the roll out include push notifications for SMS and voicemail messages and displaying your Google Voice number as your caller ID when making calls from the app.
To get an idea of how well the application worked, I decided to download the app to my iPhone 4. After quickly logging in I was presented with my inbox and the familiar “pull down to refresh” feature. Push notifications were enabled by default and I had no problem firing off a few SMS text messages. In terms of speed and stability, the app was a quick as I could have hoped and would best be described as “snappy”.
It’s been a long and windy road for Google Voice to enter the App Store and we recommend you act quickly, there’s no telling what Steve Jobs has planned for the App – not to mention the carriers. Free talk and text over data does not sit well with mobile phone carriers hoping to squeeze every last ounce of juice from our wallets.
Rather than take our word for it, head to the App store either on your iPhone or from within iTunes and search “Google Voice”. You will see two results, one for the Google Mobile App and a second below for Google Voice. The days of needing to spend £1.88 on GV Connect are through, save the coin and use it on something more exciting like one of our top iPhone apps for the week.
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