I don't mind going to a website, just wish it wasn't my email. Would prefer making the calls right from google voice as thats the most likely page I'm on when I'm checking voice mail or texts.
I kind of like it being in Gmail because I always have that tab open no matter what. I agree that a deeper integration with Google Voice would make a lot of sense though. I've never understood why SMS messages that you send from Google Chat can't come from your Google Voice number. It comes from your Google Voice number when you make a call so it seems strange to me that your texts come from some other number that they assign to you.
Still waiting for them to officially roll internet calling out to Android. There's built in SIP support, but nothing that easily ties in to Google Voice. And there's GrooVe IP, which definitely works well, but it's not native.
They added tethering and apps2sd despite the opposition.
> Still waiting for them to officially roll internet calling out to Android.
> They added tethering and apps2sd despite the opposition.
And just like with tethering, the carriers (in America, at any rate) will remove the app and charge an extra fee for it. I suppose it would be a boon for the rest of the world, though.
I'm pretty sure that if they catch you tethering, you're screwed no matter where you got the phone from. Not to mention you have to get a Verizon- or Sprint-specific phone if you're on either of those carriers.
Along the same lines, I wish they would integrate the video chat that they have in Gmail. I have a camera on the front of my phone that I have no use for because the only thing that anybody I know uses for video chatting is Gchat. I wonder how explicit the pressure from the carriers is to leave out this functionality.
It's available on 2.3.4 for a selected number of devices (for all I know the library supporting this feature is chipset specific).
I've got very neat phone (LG Optimus 2x, T-Online G2x in the states) that is blazingly fast, has a front facing camera - but cannot use this, because it's a tegra2 based phone.
Sad face here, Skype on Android is about the worst piece of crap, ever (ignoring my general dislike for Skype, it is so much worse), so no easy 3.000km+ video calls with my wife on my mobile.
Err.. No. Your statement was 'works on 2.3.4'. Whatever Wikipedia claims, that's exactly what I run on my device.
So my statement still stands: 2.3.4 does support audio/video calls, but only _for selected hardware_. If LG magically brings out a stock firmware with 2.3.4 tomorrow (and if I'd care enough to want it), they'd need to patch GTalk or rather press Google into supporting my type of handset - or they would have no audio/video support.
The OS constantly nags you if you're without a SIM card. You're either reminded you have no signal or you're reminded you're in airplane mode (The signal icon on the notification bar becomes useless. There are messages in the notification dropdown and on the lockscreen.)
If WiFi calling were native, support would be built in to turn off these reminders. Connectivity could be displayed where signal is, instead of adding another icon to the notification bar. The app could be moved to the system partition (Coming from a Nexus One, app space was hard to come by. GrooVe IP hates being a system app and you can't move it to the SD card w/o it not starting at startup).
I've bought GrooVe IP, I just feel like a native approach could work better.
there is, but it doesnt use voip. it sends a request for a callback from a random google owned number, then once you answer, it connects you to the number your calling over normal POTS.
Technically, no, it's not part of Google Voice. Google Voice is a phone forwarding / management system. GTalk is a component of gmail that allows calls to be made / received. Either can be used w/o the other. However, they do integrate nicely - that's what I use, and I like it a lot.
