Google Voice for iPhone and Palm WebOS

[peter123]

http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/google-voice-for-iphone-and-palm-webos.html

[billybob]

"That's a pretty nice browser ya got there. Mind if I use it to bypass your crazy policy decisions?"

[GHFigs → billybob]

"Google is of course free to provide Google Voice on the iPhone as a web application through Apple’s Safari browser..." -- http://www.apple.com/hotnews/apple-answers-fcc-questions/

[symesc]

The new web app is really sweet.

However, as a Canadian who has a US-based Google Voice number (Montana, eh) functionality is actually reduced on the iPhone.

Now the app initiates a call to a different US number (operated by Google) to then present the Google Voice number as the "who's calling" number.

This results in a long distance call. Before this, calls were initiated by calling the iPhone. Inbound = no long distance charges.

I can still initiate the old way by using the desktop browser instance of Google Voice on a desktop PC, but not from the phone because it auto-detects. Rats!

Oh well. I love the service and can't wait for it to be launched worldwide formally.

[rmaccloy]

These dudes have been doing something similar: http://voicecentral.riverturn.com/

[mattmaroon]

Sweet! I've been using some 3rd party apps for the Pre, but they've been kinda hit or miss (mostly miss).

[sh1mmer]

It's good, but it's not the same.

[natmaster]

Why do they block Gecko browsers with user agent string detection? Google's vendetta against Mozilla annoys me so.

[ryanpetrich → natmaster]

Doesn't Mozilla get most of its revenue from a Google search deal?

(the reason they block Mozilla is this mobile site/app probably uses Webkit extensions that won't work on Mozilla)

[natmaster → ryanpetrich]

I change my user agent string, and everything works just fine. They use HTML5 things like local storage, and advanced CSS3 features, but Firefox has all of those things implemented.