Since Google doesn’t stand a puppy’s chance in a mosh pit of getting Voice into the iTunes App Store, they’re resorting to a new mobile website that handles all the usual functions (like checking transcribed and audio voicemail, dialling out with your GV number, and send text messages). You can find out more about Google Voice here, but it’s basically ties all of your phone numbers (cell, work, home, wherever) under one number, and stores a lot of pertinent information in the cloud. While I wasn’t too thrilled about this strategy when it came to Latitude, it seems like this particular implementation actually does a great job. Third parties had already taken the “web app” approach successfully, but it’s HTML5 (that provides cool stuff like local databases and offline functionality) that’s bringing the boys to the yard for Google’s version. Anyone rocking a webOS device or iPhone and are registered with Google Voice should hit up m.google.com/voice, and give it a shot.
[via Google Mobile Blog]
Video demo after the jump!