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Google Voice lands as native iPhone app

By | November 16, 2010, 12:13pm PST

Summary: Google Voice has finally hit Apple’s App Store for the iPhone after 16 months of waiting, the company said.

Google Voice has finally hit Apple’s App Store for the iPhone after 16 months of waiting, the company said.

As a brief recap, Google wanted Google Voice in the App Store. Apple rebuffed it. The FCC got interested. Then Google did an HTML5 Web app for the iPhone. While this scrum was underway Google Voice ran as a native app on Android and BlackBerry devices.

Now Google Voice fans will get a native app.

The feature set will look very familiar. Free text messaging, voicemail transcription and your caller ID associated with Google Voice. Google in a blog post said that it will also feature push notifications and direct access numbers in the native app.

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Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Google Voice, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Smart Phones, Federal Government, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Government, Larry Dignan

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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.

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RE: Google Voice lands as native iPhone app
birumut Updated - 26th Jun
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RE: Google Voice lands as native iPhone app
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RE: Google Voice lands as native iPhone app
FullFrame 16th Nov 2010
While this new native app from Google is a good "first version", the exising "GV Connect" app does quite a bit more. I've been using that app for a couple of months now. I'll use both for now to see if I can get used to Google's new app.

IMHO, it's easier to type in text messages with "GV Connect" because sometimes, the Google Voice app only displays one line of the text message upon input, which is very difficult to read. Also, the Google Voice app doesn't display the number of characters left in a text message (160).

It's little things like this that you would think Google would have researched by looking at their competitors.
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