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Not only is Chrome getting shinier, as of today Google Voice is much more functional on the iPhone. Google/iPhone geeks already know about Apple not allowing Google’s GV app this summer. That bummed me and millions of other GV users who had to rely on the mobile web site version if we wanted to use it on an iPhone. Well, Google just upgraded the mobile web-app version of GV using HTML5, which renders the web-app almost indistinguishable from a native iPhone app. Much smoother functioning and quasi-direct calling via GV number through some voip trickery. SMS texting works well too and is FREE (take that, AT&T!). About the only thing it can’t do that matters is access the iPhone’s native Contacts list. Instead, it has to rely on your Google Contacts, but if you’re smart and set your Apple Address Book contacts to sync with your Google Contacts (in Address preferences), then you should be okay. I appreciate Google finding a viable workaround to Apple’s hamfisted telecom app policy. Feels weird, however, that Apple is The Man in this case.

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