Google Voice Arrives on iPhone and webOS Phones

Search engine-based company Google has just announced the launch of a new application for the users of an iPhone or Palm webOS device, namely a Google Voice mobile web app. According to a recent post on the Google Voice Blog, the new application is available for iPhone OS 3.0 and higher and Palm Web OS devices and offers users direct access to their Google Voice inbox.

“Today, we're excited to introduce the Google Voice web app for the iPhone and Palm WebOS devices. This HTML5 application provides you with a fast and versatile mobile experience for Google Voice because it uses the latest advancements in web technologies. For example, AppCache lets you interact with web apps without a network connection and local databases allow you to store data locally on the device, so you don't lose data even when you close the browse,” Google notes on its Official Mobile Blog.

Given the fact that the new software solution for iPhone and Palm WebOS phones is a web app, users won't have to download and install it on their devices. All that they need to do is to point the mobile browser on their handsets to m.google.com/voice, where they will be prompted to sign in to their Google Voice account.

“In addition to letting you access a streamlined version of your Google Voice inbox, the new web app also lets you display your Google Voice number as the outbound caller ID (so return calls come back to your Google Voice number), send and receive text messages for free, and place international calls at Google Voice's low rates,” the developing team notes.

Other features the new solution comes around with include the fact that one can benefit from fast access to various functionalities of the app like 'Dialer', 'Compose SMS', 'Inbox', or 'Contacts' via adding shortcuts to their iPhone home screen or Palm Launcher. Moreover, the HTML5 features of the Google Voice web app are expected to result in performance and speed similar to those delivered by a native application.