GrooVe IP - Android App for Google Voice via 3G/4G & WiFi
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GrooVe IP - Android App for Google Voice via 3G/4G & WiFi
It had to happen.
Hot on the heels of the OBi110/110 ATAs supporting Google Voice now the first Android App which supports Goggle Voice via XMPP and 3G/4G & WiFi.
The app is called GrooVe IP and it is in the Google Market and possibly elsewhere. The author is charging a modest fee but the application does seem to be getting active support. I have tried on both the Thunderbolt and G2.
I hope that Google don't start to block such efforts!
Hot on the heels of the OBi110/110 ATAs supporting Google Voice now the first Android App which supports Goggle Voice via XMPP and 3G/4G & WiFi.
The app is called GrooVe IP and it is in the Google Market and possibly elsewhere. The author is charging a modest fee but the application does seem to be getting active support. I have tried on both the Thunderbolt and G2.
I hope that Google don't start to block such efforts!
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I've thought about getting this app. HOWEVER providing my google log on info. to some one/app in the wake of recent droidream malware has stopped me dead in my tracks. I don't have any $ on my google voice accts. BUT others may, and supplying yet another SMS # to sign up for a $9.95 a month sms service isn't an idea i relish.
#3
Join Date: Mar 2009
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I got the app; took awhile to download but finally came up.
One of it's requirements is that you first sign out from Gmail (and Google Voice I think) before it will run. I missed doing this on one of my computers which held me up.
The folks who built it seem very responsive with answers and new versions.
Making unlimited wifi calls back to US while international could make this the best $4 I ever spent.
Here is an ongoing thread at one of the Android forums (he said an iPhone version will be coming)
forum.androidcentral.com/optimus-v/79598-new-voip-option-gv-single-app-solution-groove-ip.html
One of it's requirements is that you first sign out from Gmail (and Google Voice I think) before it will run. I missed doing this on one of my computers which held me up.
The folks who built it seem very responsive with answers and new versions.
Making unlimited wifi calls back to US while international could make this the best $4 I ever spent.
Here is an ongoing thread at one of the Android forums (he said an iPhone version will be coming)
forum.androidcentral.com/optimus-v/79598-new-voip-option-gv-single-app-solution-groove-ip.html
#4
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 389
FAQ/guide
Here is a link to a guide someone wrote for this app...
http://forum.androidcentral.com/gene...groove-ip.html
Looks to be along the lines of Line2 (Toktumi) but without
the monthly fee.
Anyone tried it while international yet?
http://forum.androidcentral.com/gene...groove-ip.html
Looks to be along the lines of Line2 (Toktumi) but without
the monthly fee.
Anyone tried it while international yet?
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I've thought about getting this app. HOWEVER providing my google log on info. to some one/app in the wake of recent droidream malware has stopped me dead in my tracks. I don't have any $ on my google voice accts. BUT others may, and supplying yet another SMS # to sign up for a $9.95 a month sms service isn't an idea i relish.
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HOWEVER providing my google log on info. to some one/app in the wake of recent droidream malware has stopped me dead in my tracks.
The problem with Groove IP is it's as closed source as Google's apps. However, Google is mastering ways to turn personal data into profit for them. They even drove around grabbing peoples wifi traffic, and stored it in a database. At least we know that Groove IP is not on the same scale of data collection as google.