Thursday, March 22, 2012

Google Voice for Android, now with Ice Cream Sandwich voicemail integration

(Cross posted on the Google Voice Blog)

Since we launched Google Voice back in 2009, we’ve supported visual voicemail so you could open the Google Voice app, see all your voicemails with text transcripts, and play them on-demand. But sometimes when I get a missed call, I don’t want to jump between my call log and the Google Voice app to see who has called me and what message they left.

So, today, we’re updating our mobile app so you can view and listen to your voicemails on demand directly from the call log on your Android phone. Your voicemails will appear alongside your outgoing, incoming, and missed calls in your phone’s call log and you can just simply touch them to play them. You can slow down the playback of the message which is great for when someone is telling you their callback number, or you even speed playback up, so you can quickly listen to longer messages.




To turn this feature on, download the latest app from Google Play and check “Voicemail display” under settings. This new feature requires Android 4.0+.

Posted by Yong-Hoon Choi, Software Engineer
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11 comments:

  1. SimonMarch 22, 2012 at 12:01 PM

    UK, please? And Norway.

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  2. SteveMarch 22, 2012 at 2:39 PM

    Another feature for ICS, excellent! How about you continue the roll out so we can actually use it? :|

    (Vodafone UK, Nexus S)

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  3. indolentMarch 22, 2012 at 2:54 PM

    Are text transcripts in the call log not included with this?

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  4. MiiMarch 23, 2012 at 4:04 AM

    Nice update, would love to use it here in the UK.

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  5. TyphlosaurusMarch 23, 2012 at 7:45 AM

    Always frustrating to see another US only feature, and this time not even flagged as such in the blog post. Does anyone know if Apple or MS does this for their iOS or WP7 features?

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    I'm a big fan of this new update. Love the integration.

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