http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/audio-care-packages-for-service-members.html

BTW – AT&T, where is our MMS and tethering? Why is everyone letting this major fail go by the wayside? Did AT&T get GV banned from the App store to get the heat off of them and on Apple?

Cheers~~~

The odd thing is, you start the call from the Google Voice page, by tapping Safari contacts, and selecting the saved contact. (If you don’t start from the google voice page you get the dread 403 Forbidden page).

So you are sitting there waiting for something to happen on the screen, and a Call comes in from Unknown.

So you answer the call, and silence, and eventually it rings, and someone answers suspiciously, because caller id is not always known to them. Call quality not perfect, but still usable.

This is sort of a LONG way around to make it work.

You can JUST as easily, go to http://www.google.com/voice and log in on your iPhone, and then tap Contacts at the top, find the contact you want, and tap the little Call button. The same process works.

So if you are syncing your contacts with Google Anyway, (and why wouldn’t you?) then they are ALREADY in your Contacts for your Google Voice account, and all you have to do is click Click them to call them.

Yes, you get charged minutes by ATT for an incoming call, but you don’t get charged long distance minutes, so a simple local-only calling plan will work.

If we had the true Google Voice App, everything could be done without visiting a webpage and without that incoming call from Unknown.