Google Voice may finally be approved for the App Store

Jailbroke my iPhone 3GS so I could use GV Mobile. It was okay but not great. Was frustrated with Apple's "indecision" and the clandestine hoops required to use the phone as desired. Still a Mac guy, but now using Android on an HTC Evo, with all the Google properties (Mail, Calendar, Voice, etc.). A superior experience for me; never looking back.

Google changed the outbound number. Which means that everyone you call through GV will be assigned a different number. A lot of Android users didn't take the update because of this reason. If you want to text then that's fine. That do work over wi-fi.

gv mobile (cydia version) always crashes on my phone if my history contains both text msg and calls.

i'm surprise that something posted by tauw was not checked thoroughly. this gv mobile app has been around for a while now but only for jailbroken iphones and ipod touches. also, this app is not a google product at all.

I'm guessing this app can only work when connected to Wi-Fi?

Hallelujah! I had moved to Android for an almost singular reason that using Google Voice was more difficult on the iPhone. I just might have my reason to come back!

What a horribly misleading headline and article. This is not the Google Voice app that Google submitted and has been forever held in limbo - Apple denies that it was rejected. This is just a 3rd party app that does Google Voice. I'm much more interested in whether Google's official Google Voice app will ever get approved, not so much in whether 3rd party Google Voice apps will be allowed back in (though that is still interesting).

The headline should read "3rd Party Google Voice apps may finally be approved..." And the article should make it clear that it's talking about 3rd party apps, _not_ the official Google Voice app from Google.

Not really bothered one way or the other, GV seems to be another of googles half-hearted projects, only available in one country, maybe two.

Google has a tendency at the moment to stick their fingers into another technologies pie, throw some weight at it for several months (if your lucky) and then move onto the next big thing.

Unfortunately complying with all rules only might guarantee "not being rejected" - which is very different from "being approved".

If Apple doesn't want a certain application yet has no reason to reject it, they will just leave it "In Review" forever (I'm currently on day #223 of total "In Review" time for an application without a single rejection or any other communication from Apple - of course, I don't violate any of the published rules either).

I've always been wary about providing my "services" password to an app that's not affiliated with the service. For example, my Facebook password to an app that provides Facebook "integration" but is not affiliated with Facebook. Just seems like another chance to get hacked. Is that paranoid?