The Google Voice desktop app, which is being tested internally, will enable users to make calls from their desktops and also receive them using their Voice number. The Gizmo5 client already supported Google Talk, so adapting it for use with Google Voice should have been trivial.
Gizmo5 offers a VoIP service that can also connect to regular landlines and mobile phones. With the acquisition of Gizmo5, Google can now do both and it looks like it is already testing a desktop Google Voice client internally.Īccording to TechCrunch, Google has developed a desktop client app for Voice that can send and receive calls, possibly based on Gizmo5 technology.
For it to succeed, though, it still needs a couple of things, among which a way to bypass the voice carriers altogether and, to a lesser degree, a desktop client. Google Voice, now with a few million users, is still in a private beta of sorts, but it has the potential to greatly disrupt the entire market. Google is making a big play in the voice-communication market, though you wouldn't know it from what the company has been saying so far.
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