14 DAY TRIAL // Internet giant Google has just announced a series of new enhancements brought to one of its services, namely Google Voice. According to the company, the improvements are aimed at the Google Voice mobile app, available for mobile phone users, and is meant to offer them access to a new feature, namely 'direct access numbers.' In other words, Android and BlackBerry smartphone owners should be able to place calls much faster with the new version of this mobile application.
“At Google we are obsessed with speed. Our mantra is faster = better. This is true for our Google Voice mobile apps as well. When you want to make a call, your phone should connect you as quickly as possible, whether you’re calling via Google Voice or not. Today we are launching an enhancement to the Google Voice mobile app on Android and Blackberry phones, which makes placing calls much faster. We call this feature 'direct access numbers',” Flavio Lerda, Software Engineer, states in a recent post on the Google Voice Blog.
In case there are some interested in how the solution can offer faster placing of calls, they should know that the 'direct access numbers' feature is meant to assign a unique number to any person one calls. Up until now, the the Google Voice app sent a request to the Google Voice server each and every time one wanted to make a call, and had to send the phone number that was to be dialed, and the call was connected through a Google Voice access number. With the new feature, there is no need to access the server each time a call is made, which means less data network usage, and faster calls, of course. Google Voice users who own Android or BlackBerry devices and are interested in benefiting from the new feature should download the appropriate software solution for their devices. The app is available as a free via the Android Market, while BlackBerry users would have to head to http://m.google.com/voice from their mobile phone to get it. Google Voice is available only in the US, and users would need a valid account for enjoying the application.
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