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Google has extended their trial of Gmail Voice through the remainder of 2011. Launched back in August 2010, gmail voice is an extension to gmail which allows users to call standard telephone numbers in Canada and the USA directly from gmail for free. Calls to other countries can be made for low rates. It achieved remarkable early [...]

Managed to get a Google Voice account despite being outside the US? Want the new Google Voice iOS app? Here’s how to download it. Create a US iTunes account (no credit card needed). See here. Using your iDevice, go to Settings/Store/Sign Out Sign in to your US iTunes account Download the Google Voice app on [...]

The official Google Voice app for iOS is finally on iTunes. The techcrunch story has a lot of the details on the history of the app, but, briefly, it has been a long time in coming. Apple approved, then removed a third-party app called GV Mobile, which was essentially a Google Voice front-end, saying that [...]

TechCrunch is announcing that the official Google branded Google Voice app has been approved on the Apple App Store and we should see it in the next few weeks, pending some updates to enable some iOS4 features. They claim that there is no official word yet, just rumours that the app has been approved by [...]

Sean Kovacs has tweeted that GV Mobile+ has been approved (or at least that’s what I gather from it). That’s two today! Update: (taken from seankovacs’ blog) After a long year and a half of being home sick, GV Mobile (+) makes an epic return to the App Store. The app is still propagating to [...]

Update: GV Mobile+ is up now too. The first Google Voice app has hit the app store, and it’s called GV Connect. Providing a front end to the Google Voice service, GV Connect allows users of devices running Apple iOS platform to have a native app with which to interact with Google Voice. As you [...]

Sean has posted some screenshots of GV Mobile+ on his iPhone. He just submitted the app to Apple for review, so hopefully we’ll have a Google Voice app on the iOS platform in a few days. Just to recap for those not up to date, Sean Kovacs is a part-time app developer who wrote an [...]

Apple has updated its app approval guidelines, much to the relief of many a disgruntled developer. This has allowed GV Mobile to be re-submitted and will likely see the return of the app to the iPhone. Very briefly, Apple’s app approval guidelines were not transparent, were quite arbitrary, and seemed to not be applied consistently. [...]

Google has announced that 10 million gmail voice calls have been made to date, and they are offering up some tips for how to make better use of the system. The features they are highlighting are: Call Screening – Caller is sent to voicemail and you can listen in. Switching Calls – Receive a call [...]

The @googlevoice twitter has announced that the gmail voice plugin was used to make over 1 million voice calls in its first 24 hours. And this wasn’t even a feature that all gmail users could use. W0w.