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Rumours abound that the new iPhone 5 (or 4S, depending on who you listen to) will have a unified baseband which will work on Sprint and T-Mobile’s networks in the US. I try to stay away from regurgitating rumours, but this has interesting implications for Canada. Sprint runs a WiMax 4G network which has very [...]

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. [...]

Everyone else has already covered the Apple music event, but I thought I’d pull out a little tidbit of information that looks promising for VOIP communication. The new iPod touch looks like it’s got everything needed in order to be a fully stand-alone wifi-only VOIP phone without resorting to jailbreaking. With home wifi networks being common, [...]

The cult of Mac is reporting today that the iPhone will be coming to T-Mobile. Referencing a source high up in T-Mobile’s organization, they claim an 80% chance that iPhones will be available on T-Mobile by the end of Q3 this year (late September). Deutsche Telekom, carrier of the iPhone in Germany and T-Mobile’s parent company, was [...]