gDial Pro (Google Voice)
gDial Pro brings Google Voice to the Palm Pre. Google Voice is a comprehensive and integrated telephony service that lets you hand-off call management, voice mail archiving and transcription, conference calling, call forwarding and a whole host of other wonderful features to this application. You will need a Google Voice account to use this app, and these are available only by invite at present. Google Voice basically presents you with a new phone number (porting your existing number is a feature yet to hit the service) that routes all your calls through a centralized interface. This allows you to do many magical things including viewing actual transcripts of your voice mails. It also brings visual voicemail to the Pre.
The interface is very slick and matches the Palm Pre’s own design sensibilities. gDial integrates with your existing contacts and allows you to dial any one of them with your Google Voice number. You can send and receive text messages through the GV service from right within the application. You can also configure your dial tone on the Pre with gDial Pro. The feature list includes full voice, text, and voicemail history so you can completely replace your existing phone interface habits with gDial if you wish to. Shaking your Pre will refresh your history information or clear your dialer or new SMS depending on which screen you are on. gDial Pro brings a remarkably useful and far-reaching service to the Pre in an easy-to-use, comprehensive, and slick package.
Tags: gDial Pro, Google Voice, GV, telephony
Disappointed and irritated at the palm pre apps or lack thereoff. Almost no apps I am interested in. Get a desktop or home screen app with customizeable speed dial buttons — god, the Window OS phone did that. While I have by no means played through all my options on the Pre, if there is a readily available way to customize the “desktop” or home screen, I have not found it — so even if it is there, it is not obvious for new users. I want Photo speed dial buttons, calendar and surely lots of stuff I don’t even know about yet. See something close as a “homebrew” app, but want more info.
PS — REALLY miss the “voice” that announced who was calling and notified me out loud about my appointments — rarely had to look at the phone. Come on Palm, that was an ancient phone — even the phone sales rep thought it was impressive and those guys think they have seen it all.
I am really having a hard time loging in on the gdial application. I know that i have the right email and password for the google voice. its the google contact username and password that i cant log into. is there anything that i can do to log in with the right username and password