Originally Posted by Turnkeys (Post 1405351)

I've been using iDialer and iContacts. Think I saw a companion for them, iAvatar if I recall correctly; basically just the contacts app with thumbnails.

In a nutshell, these lightweight apps dial your GV# and handle all the login & dialing, making it 1-touch for contacts, and straight dialing for other numbers.

You do need to go to their website for a custom cab; they add in your pin & GV# to the install. I haven't tried the Avatar companion yet, but the other two work well. Enjoy. :)

iDialer

iContact

iAvatar

Originally Posted by amw1972 (Post 1405423)

+1 to iDialer and iContact....

the dialer is responsive...and you can hit the "hidden" button on the top left and switch between calling out from GV OR calling out from your carrier. Handy if you didn't do a complete switch to GV.

iContact integrates seamlessly with iDialer...so it all doesn't skip a beat.

map your soft keys or hard keys to them...it can actually completely replace the the htc dialer and htc contacts.

Originally Posted by isdnmatt (Post 1405053)

The problem with this is that I'm still getting charged for txts by my carrier. If the phone used data to connect to GV to send/receive txts like going through the web browser does, then I wouldn't have pay for any txts. The main reason I want this so for when I'm in Europe. I pay almost 10 cents a txt on prepaid and only 5 euros for 3GB of data (A LOT more txts for the price). 5 Euros at 10 cents each = 50 txts. 3GB of data = more like 5000 txts. EDIT: I should add this is mainly for txting people back home in the STATES.

Originally Posted by WisdomWolfX (Post 1405484)

Did either of you bother to read the thread before you responded? :scratch:



Ahh, that makes more sense as to why you are looking for an app then. Didn't realize that. I think at this point you are actually better off using the mobile site for your texting needs.

If you are worried about being alerted when you receive a message then just setup a push email account (if you don't have one already) and have GV forward texts to email. You lose the char counter and threaded convo view, but at least you can receive and respond to texts using data only.

Originally Posted by isdnmatt (Post 1405531)

Wait, so if I forward my txts to email, I can respond to the email and it will be sent as a txt to the sender? That may use a little more data for all the email headers and such, but if that works, thats genius!! Thank you.

EDIT: I already had push enabled and this works exactly as I needed. It does use a little more data, but well worth the convenience. Certainly worth hitting the Thanks button.

Originally Posted by rainfreak (Post 1405310)

Google will get around to releasing an official WM app for GV, eventually. Until then there are very few choices that are free, none of which let you use the texting features. There are a few paid apps but they aren't cheap... and aren't that impressive, especially for what they are charging.

Originally Posted by kronik420 (Post 1405944)

Sorry to beg but does anybody have an google voice invites that like to give out thank you