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They have. It's called Skype. (Or Google Voice; take your choice.) And fittingly, they even have icons which are (approximately) blue boxes.
by Bud 16y ago
They have. It's called Skype. (Or Google Voice; take your choice.) And fittingly, they even have icons which are (approximately) blue boxes.
- ck2 16y agoNot to land lines or other cellphones without the client? And I thought Apple denied the google talk app for calling other phones?
- delinka 16y agoThe Google Voice app never purported to be a VoIP solution. It's simply a UI to the Google Voice API. When you attempt to make an actual call with it, it sends you off to the built-in dialer with a "predialed" phone number. The calls you send and receive via Google Voice use your cellular talk plan and not the data plan (which VoIP would do.) tl;dr- GV is not a VoIP service; it's a call management service
- bcrawford 16y agoTalkatone still exists to this day allowing for Google Talk functionality up to, and including, Google Voice calls over 3G.