Google released Google Voice for Browser

 

On August 1, December 25, Beijing time: According to foreign media reports, Apple's iPhone software store rejected Google
Voice application software has aroused industry debate and the US Federal Communications Commission has investigated that Google software has not yet been launched. However, Google, which is technically advanced, has released a browser version
Google Voice, but some client functions cannot be implemented.

Google Voice's iPhone client is called voicecentral. Like the computer version, this one-number-one service can receive calls from users transferred from multiple locations (home and company, you can also manage voice emails and send text messages for free. Perhaps it is too powerful, and the software was rejected by Apple's iPhone software store.

A few days ago, voicecentral's technical team developed a browser version of Google
Voice. This version is named Black Swan. You can use the website to register for a trial. Although completely browser-based, the product has the appearance and user interface of the iPhone client,
The dial, the list of voice mails converted into text, and the inbox of text messages.

It is said that when a user uses this tool to dial, Google Voice will call the user's iPhone and the other party at the same time, so the user still needs to pay a certain amount of calls. However, this software allows users to manage and play voice emails, and send text messages directly (no additional SMS fee is required to ATT ).

However, because it is not a client software, Google Voice of the browser version has certain functional limitations. For example, if a network application cannot directly read the iPhone phone book, you can manually import the phone book to a web version. Another limit is that all speech is read through the microphone, not the mobile phone receiver.

According to industry estimates, Google Voice for the web version may be a paid service, but Apple will not be able to get any revenue share, because it is a website service that Apple cannot control. Google's products even use the offline cache function and use the HTML5 function of the mobile Safari browser.

Industry insiders estimate that web-based software may even become the future of mobile phone applications. As mobile browsers become more and more powerful, more and more developers are questioning themselves: Why
What are the restrictions on iPhone software stores that make you unhappy? Why is it inferior to Apple? In addition, there is no way to enter the iPhone software store and the developer who launches the web version is not just Google
Voice family.

In fact, some people in the industry have pointed out that the software store model launched by Apple iPhone and the simulation of other mobile phone manufacturers are causing all-round development of software development from the browser/server model to the client/server model.