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photo Google Voice Gets a Mobile Overhaul - A Quick Overview Google unveiled a new interface for its Google Voice mobile website. The interface is a drastic improvement with a virtual keypad, polished SMS section and more control over your account. Overall, making the web interface actually usable in lieu of have the Apple approved Google Voice app. The new interface is what I imagine the Google Voice app would have been like it if ever saw the light of day. The screen shot shown is the homepage, and a much better jumping off point than the older interface. Folders, New SMS, Contacts and Settings are all easily accessed. Folders and Creating SMSs, hasnt changed very much as in the previous interface, they are just given a bit more polish. Most of the awesome features added are in the Settings, InBox and Contacts screen. Reading and responding to SMSs is so much more fun. We’re treated to a much more readable Inbox but the surprising addition happens after taping into a conversation.  Once in a conversation, you’ll be able to see the text massages back and forth similar to a chat windows but a little tool bar hovers near the bottom right of the screen. The box gives the options of SMS, Call, Archive, Delete, and Mark as Read, so that you dont have to scan or scroll to accomplish simple tasks anymore. Settings is where my favorite advancements took place. I can now turn OFF and ON SMS to particular devices. This was an obvious omission in the previous version. If I was at my desk and turned off SMS going to my cell but didn’t turn it back on as I left, there was no easy way to turn it back on from my mobile. I was left without receiving SMS through my phone until I was able to get back on my desktop. Overall, this update feels like you’re working in an application and not on a basically coded html website. Things load quicker and look better. I have the control Ive wanted all along while keeping a clean interface. All this and a new pretty icon to drop in to my iPhone dock when I send the site to my homepage. Thanks for sticking around for this little preview, it took a while to bang it out since I hate writing. Stay tuned to the next podcast for more impressions along with an overview of the Apple press conference. Edgar

Google Voice Gets a Mobile Overhaul - A Quick Overview

Google unveiled a new interface for its Google Voice mobile website. The interface is a drastic improvement with a virtual keypad, polished SMS section and more control over your account. Overall, making the web interface actually usable in lieu of have the Apple approved Google Voice app.

The new interface is what I imagine the Google Voice app would have been like it if ever saw the light of day. The screen shot shown is the homepage, and a much better jumping off point than the older interface. Folders, New SMS, Contacts and Settings are all easily accessed.

Folders and Creating SMSs, hasnt changed very much as in the previous interface, they are just given a bit more polish. Most of the awesome features added are in the Settings, InBox and Contacts screen.

Reading and responding to SMSs is so much more fun. We’re treated to a much more readable Inbox but the surprising addition happens after taping into a conversation.  Once in a conversation, you’ll be able to see the text massages back and forth similar to a chat windows but a little tool bar hovers near the bottom right of the screen. The box gives the options of SMS, Call, Archive, Delete, and Mark as Read, so that you dont have to scan or scroll to accomplish simple tasks anymore.

Settings is where my favorite advancements took place. I can now turn OFF and ON SMS to particular devices. This was an obvious omission in the previous version. If I was at my desk and turned off SMS going to my cell but didn’t turn it back on as I left, there was no easy way to turn it back on from my mobile. I was left without receiving SMS through my phone until I was able to get back on my desktop.

Overall, this update feels like you’re working in an application and not on a basically coded html website. Things load quicker and look better. I have the control Ive wanted all along while keeping a clean interface. All this and a new pretty icon to drop in to my iPhone dock when I send the site to my homepage.

Thanks for sticking around for this little preview, it took a while to bang it out since I hate writing. Stay tuned to the next podcast for more impressions along with an overview of the Apple press conference.

Edgar

2 years ago

January 26, 2010