My first request to Google is not to block me from using the application. You can use Skype and buy a Skype-In number for €50/year to duplicate much of this functionality, but that’s just a ridiculous price to pay for a soft phone in our opinion. It gives people an extra way to use Google Voice and is particularly useful when traveling overseas, where Google Voice doesn’t yet work. We continue to urge Google to release this software.
I also left in the random Skype call I received in the middle of the video that I thought was Google Voice just because I was thoroughly confused for a minute. The test calls in the video above were done without a headset, I just used the internal microphone and speakers. We don’t know if this is the current internal release or something more dated. The Desktop application was also automatically added as one of my phones in the Google Voice for the browser. This is mostly still branded Gizmo5, although the sign up screen says “Gizmo5 by Google,” and it is fully integrated with the Google Voice service, address book, etc. We’ve taken a video (above) showing what the application looks like, showing both outbound and inbound calls. We didn’t get those, but we did get something better – the actual application. We’ve asked our sources for screen shots of what Google Voice Desktop looks like. But then last month we learned that Google was delaying any launch of the product, and may be scrapping it entirely, because Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin don’t want Google to be in the business of creating software outside of the browser. A few months later we heard that Google was dogfooding Google Voice Desktop internally. When Google acquired Skype competitor Gizmo5 in November 2009 it wasn’t much of a stretch to anticipate a soft phone application for Google Voice to be coming soon.
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