Google Voice for iPhone (sort of)

There’s been some recent news about Google Voice apps all disappearing from the iTunes store. Even Google had their Google Voice app rejected. Folks are conjecturing that AT$T was involved in the decision to keep Google Voice users from making inexpensive overseas calls and sending free text messages on their network. It has even yielded some FCC attention.

While the investigation continues and Google completes the conversion of their Google Voice app to a web app, there is still a way for Google Voice users to access their Google Voice features on their iPhone using this simple mobile link:


https://www.google.com/voice/m


This page is obviously a “lowest common–denominator” text based mobile devices page, but you know what, it actually gets the job done. To give this web page even more functionality and add quick access to your Google Voice account on your Home Screen, follow these steps:

• Open the link in mobile Safari
• Touch the + button at the bottom of the page as highlighted in the image
• Select the Add to Home Screen option
• Use either the default name or enter a new name (Doc uses gVoice)
• Click the Add button in the upper-right hand side of the iPhone screen – a new icon will appear on your Home Screen

Now you can simply touch this Home Screen icon to get quick access to your Google Voice account. It's almost like having a native app! Anyone else have some good Google Voice tips and tricks? E-mail them to me or leave a comment below and add to this note.

Military members, don’t forget you can now get an invite to Google Voice beta using your official military e-mail account.