According to a post by Boy Genius Report and confirmed by tweets by the app’s creator, @seankovacs, GV Mobile + has been approved by Apple and is in the app store, ready for your download (not yet available for all according to some).
This is the second such app for Google Voice approved by Apple in as many days, after yesterday’s approval of GV Connect.
What can you expect from GV Mobile +? According to the creator’s site, the app will feature this “short list” of items:
Keypad
- New graphics for the keypad
- Internal favorites (Apple doesn’t provide access to the iPhone Favorites)
- Copy/Paste into keypad
- Phone number recognition (when you type a number in your contacts, it shows the name)
- Tones stay on when key held down
- Delete button when held down keeps deleting
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SMS
- Full landscape support
- Redesigned Reply/New SMS view
- Copy SMS messages
- Contact look-up when entering in name in the New SMS view
- Action menu for each SMS which allows quick call back and adding person to iPhone contacts
- Name look-up for SMS messages from a phone number (will cross reference your iPhone contacts for a name)
History
- Action menu for each history entry which allows quick call back, SMS, and adding person to iPhone contacts
- Full landscape support
Voicemail
- Full landscape support
- Transcriptions
- Improved play bar (play/pause, scrubber, transcription toggle)
- Action menu for each voice mail entry which allows quick call back, SMS, and adding person to iPhone contacts
Settings
- Multiple accounts
- Offline dialing (initiate a call without using data connection)
- Data Sync (multiple methods)
- Default Area Code (since GV requires 10 digit numbers, if set, you can still enter local number without entering the area code)
- Open to Tab
- Enable/Disable Do No Disturb
- Change Call Screening settings
- Enable/Disable Call Presentation
And more.
The real difference between the two apps from what we can decipher quickly, is the starting price, GV Connect and GV Mobile + are $2.99 regularly. According to a tweet from the creator of GV Mobile +, the app will be free for users, for one night only, based on the occurrence of the following condition:
So, get your #gvmobile hashtags going and let’s get this app for free! Pick up the app here, again if not available for you now, it soon will be, or wait for it to reach free status, and let us know what you look forward to most with GV Mobile +.
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