My latest on the Computerworld Tool Talk blog:
Google Voice is a service that simplifies connecting with multiple phones. It gives you a single phone number that rings your home phone, cell phone, office phone -- however many phones you have. It's also a simple tool for managing voice messages. Now, Google Voice has a Web app that simplifies accessing the service on an iPhone or Palm WebOS device. The new app works very well.
To run the app, just go to m.google.com/voice in your mobile Web browser. Nothing to download and install. You need to be a user of Google Voice to run it, of course.
I tried it on my iPhone 3G. When I visited the Google Voice mobile page, the software automatically recognized that I was already logged in to Google, and asked me which phone I was using.
I tapped the selection for my iPhone, and the browser showed me a fully functional phone dialpad.
You can tap numbers to dial, or spell out the name of a contact. Alternately, you can access your Google Voice address book by tapping the appropriate icon at the top of the screen.
One particularly impressive feature is that the tool generates its own list of your favorite numbers, which it calls "Top."
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