Friday, September 17, 2010

Native IPhone Google Voice App at last!

So Apple finally allowed a native Google Voice app into their store. Read about it here:
http://lifehacker.com/5641283/apple-finally-approves-a-native-google-voice-iphone-app-again

It is called GV Connect

It looks pretty nice (the interface is functional although it could use a little polish).

It does not have push notification though, which is a pain. But using GVMax together with Prowl solves this problem. Here is how to do it:

  1. Purchase Prowl on your iPhone.
  2. Register at GVMax. Note you do NOT need to provide your GV password to GVMax. (If you don't provide your GV password you will need to create a gmail filter manually, instructions available here. If you do provide the password than all the config is done automatically)
  3. Once registered, change your default notifiers, select Prowl and enter your Prowl API key.
  4. Start prowl on your phone, 'Settings'/'Redirections'/'Add a New Redirection'
  5. Under 'Application Name' type 'GV SMS' and select 'GV Connect (SMS)
  6. Repeat step 4
  7. Under 'Application Name' type 'GV VM' and select 'GV Connect (Voicemail)
Now when you receive a google voice SMS, GVMax will send you a prowl notification, which in turn causes prowl to display the SMS as a notification and opens up GV Connect so you can reply etc...

If I get sometime (unlikely) I will post a more detailed tutorial.

Regards,
Hani

3 comments:

  1. The author of GV connect is definitely gaining a lot of money/press from Sean Kovacs (the developer of GV Mobile)'s hard work. GV Mobile will be on the AppStore tomorrow.

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  2. Hi Alex, GV Mobile is also good and I think it is more polished and has more features so I am sure Sean will sell well. It is a pity Apple did not release all related apps at the same time. Having said that the guy who wrote GV Connect also put a lot of work into it, so good luck to him as well.

    Now the question is will Google release an app as well? For some reason I don't think they will.

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