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Official Google Voice App Approved For iOS

Posted by timothy on from the do-they-need-a-killer-app? dept.

silverpig writes "Apple has finally approved the official Google Voice app for iOS. After 16 months of being in app-review limbo, the app is finally here, but only for users in the US, and not for iPod Touch users. An interesting use for the app would be to use it as a dialing front end on an iPod touch in concert with a VOIP service, but it seems like this isn't an option for now. It seems like non-US users can get the app if they have a US iTunes account. You can create a US iTunes account without a credit card by following this Apple article."

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  1. Canada? by Denis+Lemire · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Google Voice sounds really cool... Sure wish they'd bring it to Canada... In time I guess...

  2. Now, if only iPod Touch support... by hezekiah957 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm wondering why they restrict it to iPhone only...

  3. Re:Whats worse? by Microlith · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not offering the service outside the US I can understand, it takes time and money to work through any regulatory issues covering phone service in any country.

    Apple sitting on it for 1.5 years? Less execusable. Stop me while I don't rush out to buy an iPhone.

  4. Yes, Google Voice is a VOIP service by sampas · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Asterisk 1.8 has support for Google's unique protocol for voice. The result: Free calls anywhere in the US from any device or other PBX you've connected to your Asterisk box. All you need is to have compiled jabber and gtalk into your Asterisk build. Free calls in and out. FreeSwitch also supports Google Voice trunks. Google Voice is still having issues now and then, though, so it's not yet ready for prime time. I suspect that's why they're not rolling it out faster. You can connect any SIP or IAX client, wireless or not, to your Asterisk/FreeSwitch box.

  5. Re:First time for everything by icebike · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Except that Google is still providing the content, (all Apple really did was write a thin wrapper around google maps - the web version).

    Google sneaks in Traffic via croud sourcing, trails, bike routes and a lot of other content that Apple can't prevent, because all they are actually getting is images fed to them by google.

    Its pretty funny really, Apple brags they wrote maps, only to have Traffic show up on the Exact day Google releases it and Apple was none the wiser (and by some reports pisses off).

    But all the cool Google maps features added to Android are missing from from the iPhone.

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