GVdialer is a new Google Voice app for multiple platforms, including Android, Blackberry and iPhone. The coolest feature, as described in a brief review in The Boy Genius Report, allows you to pre-set how you use Google Voice when you call. You can use Google Voice for all outgoing calls; for outgoing international calls; for outgoing domestic calls; or “ask me on every call”. This flexibility is great for those who have various calling plans, whose phones are owned by their employers (and therefore should sometimes show calls as coming from the corporate-supplied mobile number) and so on.
This not only solves the problem of having to dial twice – first to GV, then your number – it allows you to be smart and flexible about how your calls appear to recipients.
With Google Voice’s ability to switch calls from one phone to the next, you can initiate calls on your cell phone, taking advantage of all the cool features on it and apps such as this one. Then you can easily switch the call (if made through GV) to your desk phone to save your cell battery, get better call quality on a desk phone – or even to use your now-freed cell phone to send and receive text messages during boring conference calls. Of course, you’d never do such an awful thing, would you?
