Just Because…

Google just gave Apple another flip of the bird today with offering Google Voice in full HTML5 fashion! Now a simple Safari bookmark is all you need to get the majority of the goodness of the full GV Mobile app offers without the need to Jailbreak your phone.

The new site is at http://m.google.com/voice.

It is reported that you’ll need at least iPhone OS 3.0 or WebOS to use the new site. Still no confirmation on Android, Windows, or Blackberry browsers.

Some of the new features include:

• New design for the Google Voice Inbox
• Create Homescreen icons for individual pages
• Display your Google Voice number as the outbound caller ID for return callers
• Send and receive text messages for free
• JSON based data feeds

The real beauty of the new interface is that it is supported by most other smartphones in addition to the iPhone. Even the developer for GV Mobile, Sean Kovacs, is excited about the new data feeds. He mentioned that the old web code required a significant amount of parsing to achieve some simple listing tasks. I’m looking forward to seeing what Sean is able to come up with now with the new format. I expect we’ll get another performance improvement at minimum.

[ via Sean Kovacs | Mashable | iClarified ]