I’d love to see that functionality as well. I hope integrating VOIP won’t be too hard! I have an Android phone that I use as a Wi-Fi modem for my iPhone. The Android phone is quite unreliable — an HTC Hero — and I’d like to be able to use my iPhone for everything rather than simply GV Mobile +, iPod, and Safari.
Jon :
I’d love to see that functionality as well. I hope integrating VOIP won’t be too hard! I have an Android phone that I use as a Wi-Fi modem for my iPhone. The Android phone is quite unreliable — an HTC Hero — and I’d like to be able to use my iPhone for everything rather than simply GV Mobile +, iPod, and Safari.
Keep up the great work!
Please post a list of features and reasons why I should purchase GV Mobile+. I’m interested, but the lack of a posted feature list on your web site and “here is what you get for $1.99″ is keeping me from it.
For instance, does your application support push notifications for SMS messages? That’s all I’m really interested in. Doing some web searching, I think that the answer is no. Your free version certainly doesn’t support it.
If you include local notifications for texting I’ll totally shell out 2 bucks. I’m only going to use it for texting, and I think most of your iPod touch audience are in the same boat.
I am running the free GV mobile with BiteSMS and I get notified of GV text messages. Just started using it so test it for yourself. BiteSMS has a free 14 day trial and after just has ads that show on the bottom of the app…fine with me.
How is it that you get notified of GV text messages with BiteSMS? Can you please elaborate on your setup. I’m playing around with BiteSMS now, and see no integration of GV or GV Mobile what-so-ever. Is your GV setup to send texts to your carrier SMS number? I’m interested in not paying my carrier for SMS.
Either I’m confused or you are. By default Google Voice forwards SMS messages to your Carrier Phone Number (thus, if you are on a limited SMS plan with your carrier, uses an SMS message). BiteSMS will pop-up if you receive a carrier SMS, but has no way of checking for a GV SMS directly. It would have to be forwarded in someway to your carrier SMS or to a BiteSMS inbox (if you set that up, which again costs $/txt).
Are you sure Google Voice isn’t just forwarding messages to your carrier SMS phone number? If it is, then BiteSMS and GV Mobile have little to do with the push notification you get.
But if you have figured out a way to receive free Google Voice SMS messages w/ a push notification Window in a very seamless fashion, I’m sure a lot of people would like to know how.
The best approach I’ve found (so far), is to have GV forward SMS to my Gmail address, and setup Push email (via exchange activesync) with gmail. I then get my emails nearly instantaneously… I’m using LockInfo to see my emails on my lock screen and jump to them quickly in the Mail App. This is the best solution I’ve found for using GV SMS on my iPhone.
I’ve read that you can use Prowl on the iPhone, and setup Growl on Mac OS X to Push a notification window to your iPhone when you receive an SMS via Email. I dislike this approach, however, due to the need to have Growl and your Mac running all the time… also, the Mail app for Mac doesn’t do Push, it has to “poll” for new email every 5 mins or so.
So far I haven’t found a good solution and I’ve been looking for weeks. TextFree gives you a free SMS phone number that integrates with the iPhone in a better way than anything I can find for Google Voice. However, you can’t send text messages from your computer’s web browser (which is really nice when I’m at work) with TextFree which is one of the major features I like from Google Voice. You have to use your iPhone for all TextFree interaction.
Thanks for your posts! Any more insight into your setup would be a big help, Scott.
Yes you are right…I just checked and do apologize if I mis-lead you. I haven’t used GV in a while and forgotten that I had setup GV to forward to my cell which would charge TXT messages Again sorry about that. I think I installed GV Mobile and Bite at the same time and made that assumption…thanks for straightening me out
I also tried Prowl earlier and did not like it. Oh well back to the drawing board.
I still do like BiteSMS so I will keep it anyway.
Is anyone else having an issue when trying to load voicemails? I have GV Mobile, not +. Is the + version having these same issues? I have had the issue since moving to iOS4. I am currently running 4.0.2 on a 3g iphone. Anyone else have the issue? Any work around?
Does GV Mobile + not have this issue?
Love the app, have been using it since it first appeared on cydia. Keep up the great work Sean!
I use GV Mobile+ so much. Now it takes forever to load messages, even on wifi. I had to regress back to GV Mobile in order to do anything.Hopefully this amazing app it updated for better iOS4 compatibility.
For any of you wanting push notification, I posted a nice guide with pictures on xSellize forums. Here’s the link to the page.
I just bought GV Mobile + and I like it. It makes my life much easier. I do want to make a few requests though in the hopes of improving the app.
1. I prefer the little blue dot next to new texts, etc better than the slight blue at the edge of the screen. I think the dot is easier to notice.
2. I would also really love to have a character counter for writing texts. This would be a huge improvement.
3. I’d like a way to create a new contact from an unknown number.
4. I’m still not sure if I like the favorite contacts tab, but I would like to have it available in the SMS screen as well. It would be great to be able to initiate an SMS from the contacts section too. I think it would be better to have the dialer section default to the contacts tab rather than the actual dialer as I never dial numbers anymore.
I realize these features may hinge on API’s from Google, but here they are:
5. A better call out system. I currently use GV Mobile + for everything except dialing out because the web apps make it much easier.
6. I too would love to see Google’s VOIP service integrated into GV Mobile +. Currently I make a lot of my calls through 3rd party VOIP services anyway and using this app for all my calling needs would be awesome.
This app is a great app and I’d love to see it get even better. Thanks for keeping Google Voice alive on the iPhone.
Hi, now that Google has rolled its VOIP service, would you be making changes to GV Mobile/GV Mobile+ to support VOIP calling from iphone?
I’d love to see that functionality as well. I hope integrating VOIP won’t be too hard! I have an Android phone that I use as a Wi-Fi modem for my iPhone. The Android phone is quite unreliable — an HTC Hero — and I’d like to be able to use my iPhone for everything rather than simply GV Mobile +, iPod, and Safari.
Keep up the great work!
Please post a list of features and reasons why I should purchase GV Mobile+. I’m interested, but the lack of a posted feature list on your web site and “here is what you get for $1.99″ is keeping me from it.
For instance, does your application support push notifications for SMS messages? That’s all I’m really interested in. Doing some web searching, I think that the answer is no. Your free version certainly doesn’t support it.
Oh well, thanks anyway.
If you include local notifications for texting I’ll totally shell out 2 bucks. I’m only going to use it for texting, and I think most of your iPod touch audience are in the same boat.
I am running the free GV mobile with BiteSMS and I get notified of GV text messages. Just started using it so test it for yourself. BiteSMS has a free 14 day trial and after just has ads that show on the bottom of the app…fine with me.
Hi Scott!
How is it that you get notified of GV text messages with BiteSMS? Can you please elaborate on your setup. I’m playing around with BiteSMS now, and see no integration of GV or GV Mobile what-so-ever. Is your GV setup to send texts to your carrier SMS number? I’m interested in not paying my carrier for SMS.
I did not set anything up..I just installed both apps and when I get a GV test it comes to BiteSMS. Did you try to send yourself a txt thru GV?
Hi Scott -
Either I’m confused or you are. By default Google Voice forwards SMS messages to your Carrier Phone Number (thus, if you are on a limited SMS plan with your carrier, uses an SMS message). BiteSMS will pop-up if you receive a carrier SMS, but has no way of checking for a GV SMS directly. It would have to be forwarded in someway to your carrier SMS or to a BiteSMS inbox (if you set that up, which again costs $/txt).
Are you sure Google Voice isn’t just forwarding messages to your carrier SMS phone number? If it is, then BiteSMS and GV Mobile have little to do with the push notification you get.
But if you have figured out a way to receive free Google Voice SMS messages w/ a push notification Window in a very seamless fashion, I’m sure a lot of people would like to know how.
The best approach I’ve found (so far), is to have GV forward SMS to my Gmail address, and setup Push email (via exchange activesync) with gmail. I then get my emails nearly instantaneously… I’m using LockInfo to see my emails on my lock screen and jump to them quickly in the Mail App. This is the best solution I’ve found for using GV SMS on my iPhone.
I’ve read that you can use Prowl on the iPhone, and setup Growl on Mac OS X to Push a notification window to your iPhone when you receive an SMS via Email. I dislike this approach, however, due to the need to have Growl and your Mac running all the time… also, the Mail app for Mac doesn’t do Push, it has to “poll” for new email every 5 mins or so.
So far I haven’t found a good solution and I’ve been looking for weeks. TextFree gives you a free SMS phone number that integrates with the iPhone in a better way than anything I can find for Google Voice. However, you can’t send text messages from your computer’s web browser (which is really nice when I’m at work) with TextFree which is one of the major features I like from Google Voice. You have to use your iPhone for all TextFree interaction.
Thanks for your posts! Any more insight into your setup would be a big help, Scott.
Thanks!
Yes you are right…I just checked and do apologize if I mis-lead you. I haven’t used GV in a while and forgotten that I had setup GV to forward to my cell which would charge TXT messages
Again sorry about that. I think I installed GV Mobile and Bite at the same time and made that assumption…thanks for straightening me out 
I also tried Prowl earlier and did not like it. Oh well back to the drawing board.
I still do like BiteSMS so I will keep it anyway.
Is anyone else having an issue when trying to load voicemails? I have GV Mobile, not +. Is the + version having these same issues? I have had the issue since moving to iOS4. I am currently running 4.0.2 on a 3g iphone. Anyone else have the issue? Any work around?
Does GV Mobile + not have this issue?
Love the app, have been using it since it first appeared on cydia. Keep up the great work Sean!
Thanks.
I use GV Mobile+ so much. Now it takes forever to load messages, even on wifi. I had to regress back to GV Mobile in order to do anything.Hopefully this amazing app it updated for better iOS4 compatibility.
For any of you wanting push notification, I posted a nice guide with pictures on xSellize forums. Here’s the link to the page.
(http://xsellize.com/topic/50117-gv-mobile/page__st__160)
Scroll down until you see the post by me (emachines771)
I just bought GV Mobile + and I like it. It makes my life much easier. I do want to make a few requests though in the hopes of improving the app.
1. I prefer the little blue dot next to new texts, etc better than the slight blue at the edge of the screen. I think the dot is easier to notice.
2. I would also really love to have a character counter for writing texts. This would be a huge improvement.
3. I’d like a way to create a new contact from an unknown number.
4. I’m still not sure if I like the favorite contacts tab, but I would like to have it available in the SMS screen as well. It would be great to be able to initiate an SMS from the contacts section too. I think it would be better to have the dialer section default to the contacts tab rather than the actual dialer as I never dial numbers anymore.
I realize these features may hinge on API’s from Google, but here they are:
5. A better call out system. I currently use GV Mobile + for everything except dialing out because the web apps make it much easier.
6. I too would love to see Google’s VOIP service integrated into GV Mobile +. Currently I make a lot of my calls through 3rd party VOIP services anyway and using this app for all my calling needs would be awesome.
This app is a great app and I’d love to see it get even better. Thanks for keeping Google Voice alive on the iPhone.