Yet again Apple (this time teaming up with AT&T apparently) has played the big brother role by blocking the latest Google mobile voice app. GV Mobile or Google Voice, which seems to bring a big buzz “gives you one number for all your phones, voicemail as easy as email, and lots of cool calling features”. GV Mobile brings the power of Google Voice to your iPhone. It allows you to:

  • Dial numbers via the iPhone address book or typing on the keypad
  • Full SMS support (view historic, reply, send new)
  • Retrieve and delete recent call history
  • Playback and delete voicemails
  • Take calls from different phones other than your iPhone
  • Enable or disable the phones that Google Voice forwards calls to
  • Add or delete phones that Google Voice forwards call to

Like other Apps in the past, Apple seems to think somehow GV mobile doesn’t have a place in the AppStore. Why? Well, Apple knows that better. But it looks like Apple has merely just moved it from its AppStore to the open market by rejecting it as GV Mobile or Google Voice App developer Sean Kovacs has already released it to Cydia, a heaven for jailbroken iPhone owners.

So there you go Apple, you just took the trouble to reject the app which really didn’t make any difference to the developer nor to the end users except for some who is still reluctant to jailbreak their iPhone. Well, I this will be another reason for you to Jailbreak your iPhone if you haven’t done already. And trust me, they way Apple is trying to play their game, you’ll see a lot more like this. So be prepared guys/gals.

Now, even though you can download and install the app you can’t use it unless you’ve a Google voice account. And right now Google allows invite only (remember Gmail’s early days?) registration. To invite yourself, go here: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googlevoiceinvite/ and put your email address and wait for Google to send you an invite.

If you’re interested to Jailbreak your iPhone then just follow these easy steps and see how good it feels to have the freedom of both worlds.

Here’s a quick demo of the app:

via: ModMyi

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