Comments on: GrandCentral vs. iPhone

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:36:54 +0000

Sorry for the double tap!! My email is james432707@hotmail.com

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:35:48 +0000

I am really hoping to do some resaerch on the grandcentral by google. Is there anyone that can get me an invite?

By: Qays Poonawala

Qays Poonawala — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:21:29 +0000

New iPhone webapp which allows you to play GrandCentral voicemail... if you want to try it out, spread the word, or read more on my blog. Or enter the URL of the app on your iPhone: http://rectu.ms/iphone

By: Larry P

Larry P — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:27:51 +0000

Supware has released a dialer for Windows Mobile. It is part of his iDialer app. Just a note for the WIndows Mobile crowd that may stumble across your site! A question for iPhone users though…are you ever “allowed” to download content to your device not pre-screened by Apple/iTunes?

A similar issue happens with the SkyFire Browser on the WinMo platform but it happens because the SkyFire app isn’t really running on the device. It’s running on the server. So can you browse the web with an iPhone and download an MP3 or is that forbidden?

By: Caleb Clauset

Caleb Clauset — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:09:48 +0000

This should be solvable. The MP3 files that GC uses are MPEG-2/Layer 3, which are playable by the iPhone (2.1 OS). It appears to simply be an issue with how GC is providing the MP3 files to Mobile Safari (if I create a simple HTML page that directly references the file href for the MP3 it plays back fine).

By: DaveK

DaveK — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:57:46 +0000

I can confirm Judi Sohn’s observations. Although you can access the mobile site from the iPhone’s Safari browser (and enlarge it to be useful by zooming in), when you click on the links to play the message it opens the player but will not play the “movie” file saying its not a file type it can play. On my Blackjack from either the e-mail button, the url link or within Moble, they all take you to a web address that allows you to download and play a .mp3 file. Either Apple is going to have to let .mp3 files to play in their App, someone is going to have to make an App that will do so (if necessary Jailbreak) or for iPhones you get to tell it send the voicemail as a .wav file attachement within the e-mail. I have played Vonage and Call Waave .wav files on the iPhone 3G and both work now, and I sent a Google Talk Voice message which was a .mp3 file to an iPhone 3G and it played with the e-mail app. So either Google has to change it or Apple, somebody needs to do something, cause so far we users are stuck in middle with no good solution, and its quite frankly keeping me from buying the iPhone 3G! Come on, somebody give a little and solve this mess.

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:21:50 +0000

Wonderful, Jeremy. But I still can’t review/listen to my voice mail messages directly from my iPhone.

By: Jeremy Dundore

Jeremy Dundore — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:04:20 +0000

There is now a GrandCentral dialer available through the iTunes AppStore for free.

By: Larry P

Larry P — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:43:17 +0000

The mobile site does not require flash to play voicemails. You download the file and play it locally. However, I certainly share your love-hate relationship as I expressed on my blog here http://216skillz.com/?p=663

Hopefully Google or the GC Team does something soon.