Google Voice Launches Mobile Apps

Posted by ruchi on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @09:57AM
from the informationweek.com dept.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218500501

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Re:Google Voice Launches Mobile Apps by michaelawill on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @10:45AM (#705744)

Happy to see the iPhone app will be out soon too. Now if only I'd actually get my google voice invite I signed up for over a year ago...

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Re:Google Voice Launches Mobile Apps by rufo on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @11:06AM (#705802)

There's been a third-party GrandCentral/Google Voice app I've been really happy with on the iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa...

I'm interested to see Google's app and will likely wind up using it, but I doubt it'll integrate as cleanly as the Android version does.

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Re:Google Voice Launches Mobile Apps by TrevorJ on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @10:48AM (#705750)

I am in the same boat. It must be a massive undertaking for them to roll this out.

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Re:Google Voice Launches Mobile Apps by maxwell on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @02:05PM (#706224)

"When sending SMS messages in this manner, users don't have to pay SMS charges levied by their mobile carriers because the SMS messages are sent by Google."

This could be a major blow to the profitability of texting. I'll probably drop my AT&T plan (I think it's a thousand or so texts a month) when the iPhone app launches.

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Re:Google Voice Launches Mobile Apps by dthakur on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @11:54AM (#705905)

Hate to see big corps acquire services and butcher them.

Everything used to work great with Canadian numbers on grandcentral. Now I removed one and cannot add it back because it is international.

The app looks ok on my Android phone but of course not usable at the moment for me.

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