Google Voice for iPhone Finally gets Approved as Apple Loosens its Grip
Google Voice for iPhone Finally gets Approved as Apple Loosens its Grip
Posted 09/19/2010 at 5:58am
| by Justin Kerr
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It took 14 months, thousands of user protests, and an FCC investigation, but the Google Voice iPhone application has finally been approved. The app enables free phone calls within the United States, along with steeply discounted international calling, a move that likely won’t sit well with AT&T who charges a much higher rate for long distance calling. Google Voice also offers free voicemail transcriptions, the ability to listen to voicemail messages live, and several other indispensable call forwarding and number management tools.
The good news for iPhone users helps underscore Apple’s recent commitment to loosening up the reigns on app store approvals, but its hard to mistake this act of charity as anything less than a move to keep up with the competition. The iPhone platform finds itself increasingly competing for developer time with Android, WebOS, and now even Windows Phone 7.
Has Apple’s recent change of heart convinced you the iPhone is worth looking at? Or did you ditch the Retina display for an OLED long ago?
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drag00n
September 20, 2010 at 4:36am
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And application for a phone is great for users that have no clue what there doing making devices easier to use. But using the computer to make calls has been around for a while for people that know what there doing.
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stige
September 19, 2010 at 7:43am
i love me my google voice but i'll be more enthused when Apple allows a gTalk app that doesn't suck.
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