Sean Kovacs

THANK YOU for fixing the blue color thing on the dial pad. That was bugging me

I like the new cleaner dialpad. And the glow effect on the splash screen.

is there SMS in and out from this version?

Man… put a NSFW tag on this porn

shwing!

@gscott It will be a surprise

For the love of god…why can’t the dialer be made to look like GRANDDIALER?! Simple. Just shade the standard keypad a different color? Pleease?!

i’ve got both this app and voice central. voice central has the advantage of having SMS history albeit mixed with voice history. schwing! can you add that? neither app has a favorite section. i dunno about you, but i don’t ever use the keypad and hardly ever use my contact list. favorites are my favorites!

@SMathers I could have added in a half ass’d SMS history also – I decided not to. The quality of their product shows by the reviews…

@Ethan Ethan I am also very sensitive to esthetics. And I think I like this keypad better than the standard one. Cleaner. And the entire interface looks much more graphically cohesive.

@sean Sean thank you for your hard work. But essentially what I think SMathers is trying to communicate is that most of us use GoogleVoice because we don’t want those we call to know our real number So a favorites list would be perfect for those people we call who we never want to be able to track us down.

To implement this, should you so desire, take a look at Truphone app. It allows you to choose which icons you want on the bottom interface. And it ends with a “More” icon on the far right so you can still access things such as “settings” which you now have in that far right spot or anything else you might want to add such as “RECORDINGS”! Hint Hint

Thanks for listening, Jas

So this must mean an update real soon here?

@sean Why is this comment awaiting moderation.. there is already another comment posted below mine. Am I being censored?? I’ll repost

Sean thank you for your hard work. But essentially what I think SMathers is trying to communicate is that most of us use GoogleVoice because we don’t want those we call to know our real number So a favorites list would be perfect for those people we call who we never want to be able to track us down.
To implement this, should you so desire, take a look at Truphone app. It allows you to choose which icons you want on the bottom interface. And it ends with a “More” icon on the far right so you can still access things such as “settings” which you now have in that far right spot or anything else you might want to add such as “RECORDINGS”! Hint Hint
Thanks for listening, Jas

@sean ah i see it posted now from my other computer

I dunno, their SMS history seems to work for me, I use it because your product doesn’t have it.

I notice you spend a lot of time bashing competitors and people who don’t agree with you.
That’s not a great business strategy.

@jasmer Actually, I don’t care about people not being able to track me down. Quite the opposite, I want to train them to use my google voice number so that they can get me at my cell, skype, and home. As we’re all painfully aware AT&T is teh suck and it doesn’t work in all sorts of places (including my home).

Sean, will there be a update for the free version? Just curious.

@Jasmer The system wonks out some times…I approved it..

@SMathers I bash because I can. When you’re a leader, you can. I know my product is better and I stand by that. I’m not a failed consulting business that wants to make extra dough by selling poorly tested apps. Is it not Apple that bashes Microsoft in every commercial they have? They seem pretty successful, right?

@DMKlunk Yes, to include international support…

Why is the keypad the default? It is a rare feature to actually use on ANY phone these days…I always find it funny that cell phones base their menu around this little used feature as opposed to building something new and making the manual input of numbers a little more tedious.

Contact list (or favorites as someone else mentioned) should really be the default (or allow for it to be set as one) on both SMS and Phone.

BTW landscape on SMS would ROCK! Thats one of my main probs with the Apple version!

Hi Sean, I am really hoping that voicemail can be heard via bluetooth headset as well as SMS history. These two things will make GV Mobile perfect for me. Thanks for the update!

@clifyt Once 3.0, this will include landscape mode

@Sang Lee I’ll see what I can do

@ Sean: Get over yourself. You’re no leader. Your product is adequate(at best), not spectacular. Don’t put yourself or your product at the same level of Apple or Microsoft. You’ve got a long ways to go just so it’s cohesively user functional. The product has no “WOW” factor. Also, those who fail often tend to have greater successes later. I use your product, simply because it was available prior to VoiceCentral.

your rss feed is broken.

@Mischievous Obviously I am…otherwise VoiceCentral would have stuck with its original product – just voice mail. They saw obvious competition and decided to follow. In their haste, they put out a unstable product. I think the reviews speak for my product – I don’t have to. Likewise with VoiceCentral.

@Alex I broke it for a reason…

No product is perfect, but GV Mobile is pretty good in its current state. I’m sure pretty soon it will mature to include most or all of the major features that will make all of us happy.

I’m all for those requested features, but I hope this next update will add “Offline Dialing” to GV Mobile across the board. That would make me happy. And, eventually we’ll have complete interaction with Google Voice in that mode as well.

Thanks.

Sean, Im a big fan of you. Not to bash you or criticize you, but just letting you know, that leaving a comment on the voicecentral app review plugging your product was a poor choice. It makes you look bad. Doesn’t matter if you were right or wrong, its just a poor choice. (NOT A FAILED CONSULTANT, I AM QUIET SUCCESSFUL AND ALWAYS PREACH YOUR APP). I use your app so I can call out from my cell without giving people my constant cell number…

Is the new version going to allow me to add a contact from the dial pad screen?

Wow… this thread got mean. Just chiming in that I like that the num pad is the first thing that pops up. I frequently use it. Just my .02

looking forward to the next update… any word on when we can expect it?

I think Sean is a little sensitive considering people were bashing his product without actually knowing how to use it or GV properly. That said… Sean, no need to be defensive I love GV Mobile and think it speaks for itself. Most good products do, and this is one of them. Let people rant their gripes, most real users can filter through the garbage. After all it’s $3 for god sakes and if that really breaks the bank then I suggest they should return their iPhone and get a Nokia 6300… It makes phone calls.

@KTJCM

Wow, there’s some mean people on this thread. Shit, are people that disturbed. This app is awesome for the price! People can bash all they want, and if they don’t like it, simply don’t use it. It’s $3… I had to pay over $4 for the Frappucino I just drank and I don’t get to drink it over and over. Awesome work man! Thanks!

@sean Your never going to please everyone, So my advice to you is, Don’t try… Make the product that you want to put out and if people like it and it’s usefull to them they will buy it, some will be pleased and some will still find something to complain about!!!

@Manuel This so true.

Hey Sean,

Two suggestions:

1. Implementing a Do-Not-Disturb toggle on GV Mobile.

2. An easy method of toggling between multiple Google Voice accounts. (or even selling a GV Mobile 2 app) I’m not opposed to two separate icons.

Best, Jim Scherber

If you’re taking votes for new features, I would love to see SMS messaging in and out. I use GV mobile on my iPod touch, and sometimes my cell phone isn’t right at hand. It would be awesome to be able to both send and receive SMS messages to the app. In defense of the dialpad, I actually use it quite frequently. More frequently than I use the contacts, frankly. Having taken GrandDialer’s design (with the contacts on the same page as the dialpad) was a very good idea. While a favorites might be nice, I’d prefer to see it stay as it is.

Hey Sean,

Any chance of Push Notification when 3.0 comes out? a push when we get a text to the GV number?

since im Canadian this would be an awesome thing if they dont fix the whole canadian terminating numbers thing

You I hate critics because they are too lazy or sorry to make a product themselves they over critic a good product bc they didnt have the ambition, drive or balls to do it themselves. . . Here a guy is putting out a product that the majority enjoy and these dummies come here wanting to have a piss fight. . Yall need to grow up and if you dont like Sean or his product make your own. . I am not d!@k riding either yall haters have nothing better to do so stay with the Grand central crap and bug off.

(just so you all know I typed that last post quickly and didn’t care for a spell check) but to show my point there is someone saying look he cant type . . ha ha . . thats the stupidity when some of you idiots cant just go with the message you want to harass the messenger . . there is no perfect person so there wont be a perfect app nor a way to make EVERYONE happy. . Think about this . . this is a business therefore Sean will do whatever he needs to make his money so he will better the product. . I know this app is not the greatest invention in the world but was Rome built in a day? and again I dont know sean never met him but I cant stand when supercilious people talk like they have done something better . .

and lastly (really got frustrated . . lol) when it comes to marketing . .

apple vs microsoft

subway vs mcdonalds

jack in the box vs burger king (i like that commercial)

chevy vs honda

google vs microsoft

grandcentral dialer app vs GV mobile

this world is bred on competition and survives on competitors pushing their product and true this isnt on a level of mass marketing to hundreds of millions if it works why can I or sean or anyone else use the same tool . .

if you arent confrontational then thats your quirk but YOU people need to stop telling this man how to act and treat his app before he yanks it all together and just make suggestions. . you think you b!t@hing at him will really change him . . lol . . seems like you just need to focus on your own little world that you probably cant even control. .

Stop being fanboys everyone – just enjoy the app and look forward to future updates. Om…peace!!

@ vishal you bought the product too so whats that make you . .

@Q
Q You clearly have no idea what the definition of a fanboy is. So here’s the wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanboy

And the reference.com link: http://www.reference.com/search?q=Fanboy

So just because I have bought the product does not mean I’m a fanboy or that anyone else is, however those who obsess over a product (cough Q cough cough) would be considered a Fanboy.

Just wanted to clear that up for future reference. Thank you and good day.

Okay gang. Thank you Q for defending me and my product. Lets all play nice though. I have some good stuff coming along…I’ve been busy doing month end stuff for work though, so maybe tonight I’ll have something off to Apple.

@sean
Thanks for the update Sean. I have a feeling there will be a couple of good surprises in this release. I can’t wait

Thank you Sean for all your hard work. You OWN a great app and have the right to do or say anything you like. Kudos’s for doing so.

Man, alls I have to say is that google voice is pure sex. The options in the settings are so thorough I dont know why I took so long to upgrade from grand central. The fact that kovacs made an app that functions nearly identical to google voice, is more sex.

And Im definitely enjoying the screenshots. Lets hope apple doesnt drag their feet with this update