Good news for iPhone and Palm WebOS users, as they can now use Google’s Voice service directly from the browser. The web app should be available to all current Google Voice users as of today. Please note you won’t be able to use Google voice without an invitation yet.
Google Voice allows you to receive calls to your cellphone or desk phone through the internet and it’s even able to transcript voice messages into text and send them to you as an email. In 2009, Google submitted a Voice app to Apple’s App store, though it has been rejected, which started a war between Apple and Google. FCC got involved, but the things aren’t quite pink, so Google seems to have found the perfect way to allow iPhone and WebOS users take advantage of their service.
Google Voice iPhone
Vincent Paquet, senior product manager at Google, stated that they didn’t get any update on their Google Voice iPhone App, so they created the Web application that offers the same experience to the users, just that it has a different user interface, being run from the smartphone’s browser.
We haven’t had any updates regarding our native app for the iPhone, unfortunately
Vincent Paquet
Fortunately, this is an example of what web applications can do thanks to HTML5. Web development it’s going to bring us more and more interesting apps, which we won’t be even able to distinguish from native apps. I think Google will prove I’m right once they release their Chrome OS.
Check out Google’s Voice web app here.
