Google's GizmoVoice=The App Money, Nor Ads Can't Buy

Michael Arrington may have his "friends" inside Google but well, that doesn't mean he's the only one who can be one of the "chosen" to be able to use what I am calling GizmoVoice. Reports are that there are a TOTAL of seven copies in use so can you guess who the other five belong to?

The application works flawlessly, and it has amazing sound quality, easily making it a rival to Skype. It works seamlessly too, with your GoogleVoice Account as well. All you do is enter your username and password and calls can be made and received.

More on the experience using it as I work with it over the next few days while traveling, but according to sources that have access to Google's thinking, Larry and Sergey do not want anything that works outside of the Chrome browser, making Google in my mind the next AOL in thought process. Many will recall that AOL only wanted their users to live inside the AOL application and some things, like voice and video clients need to live elsewhere. Very little information exists on the application outside of Arrington's post, and being the holiday weekend, it is doubtful anyone from the big G will be around for a few days. That said, it would be interesting to get an official comment on the software which like other interesting things in the past, have a wonderful way of finding their way here.

Comments

[Akamushi]

this smells like something huge.
questions are: US market only (first), any public release date?

[Darin Simmons]

I agree with the AOL comparison. Others have brought the fact that Picasa lives on the desktop and not within the HTML5 / Chrome browser experience.

Personally, I use a 10 keypad and the idea of using a faux-phone which is inverted smacks of playing to the phone mentality instead of playing to the computer mentality. I will call from my computer so please G, invert the pad.

[Babyis60.wordpress.com]

I guess that they are waiting for chrome apps spec to settle a bit before embedding GizmoVoice into the chrome browser as a native extension.

Embedding voice in the browser really makes sense. Outside the browser, it's just another (good) softphone. Inside the browser it can leverage the whole Google Ad machine. Voice is our most expressive medium, it has been missing from the web too long.

Of course I'm biased, we at Phonefromhere.com have been embedding VoIP in the browser for a while now, but it's nice to be in agreement with Larry and Sergey :-)

Give the web a voice!