Sure, we’ll admit it: there might not be a whole lot of apps available right now for webOS on the Palm Pre, especially when compared to the iPhone App Store’s 70,000. That said, there’s at least one application that the Pre has that you won’t find on the iPhone – well, at least not anymore: Google Voice.
It’s not Google-made, but homebrew-developer flpalm’s GDial Pro still packs most of what you might be expecting. Dialing out from your number? Check. SMS? Yep! Voicemail? It’s there. It looks like there are already at least 40,000 users rocking the application – so what are you looking for?
I pulled it this morning, actually. I will say, my only snag on it? Has been that I had to reset the history and such to force it to accept my Username and Password for GV.
After that, I’ve been playing with it off and on, all day.
It does pretty much what I need it to do and more. SMS is intuitive (it’s what I use most). The Icons are, for the most part, understandable. And, the dialer has a slick looking UI / Gunmetal Interface and is so like the Native Green Dialer that you might forget which is which.
I think it’s great, has everything GV has pretty much. And, you can search your Contacts. The Homebrew Version uses APIs not released yet, and has Universal Search. But for what I use it for, this is pretty cool. I also like that I can navigate to GV Mobile from the app.
Some downsides? The black on gray on white may not be for everyone. Especially, since I believe the colors on the UI are chosen to be cheerful. This, though is personal preference. Also, I think it could use the Accelerometer in some of the scenes, so you can look at texts and transcripts in landscape mode.
just got my google voice invite, if I use google voice app on my Palm Pre do I use my minutes? What r the benefits of using google voice?