Google Voice not intercepting voicemail for iPhone

· http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/voice/thread?tid=06b28869a293df1b&hl=en

· http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/voice/thread?tid=56a6385ce48d6e5d&hl=en

· http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/voice/thread?tid=1cb861553cb65a33&hl=en

· http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/voice/thread?tid=0d3905d1eabcb546&hl=en

· http://www.knowyourcell.com/apple/apple-iphone-3g/iphone-3g-guides/479280/how_to_set_up_google_voice_voicemail_on_the_iphone_3g.html

· http://www.clicksandbits.com/2009/03/21/forward-iphone-to-google-voice/

I’ve had a problem ever since I got the iPhone, whereby sometimes voicemail ended up at Google Voice where I wanted it, but sometimes AT&T intervened, and callers were greeted with a message that I had not set up my mailbox, which I hadn’t. I figured it had something to do with whether the phone was on the network, out of network, powered off, etc. As I have Google Voice answering for two phones potential complications were doubled.

I don’t remember if this problem extends back as far as GrandCentral days. However at some point GrandCentral/Google Voice did something about this. They added some functionality in the Voice settings which walks you through forwarding Voicemail only to Google Voice. So now it doesn’t matter whose voicemail wins the race, they all point to Google Voice. I expect this will be quite a boon for my interpersonal relationships.

iPhone and GrandCentral

So I am planning on using Grand Central ( http://ww.grandcentral.com ) to front-end my various phones. One oversight I made, was to not check out how Mobile GrandCentral and the iPhone felt about each other. Big mistake. The mobile stylesheet which looks great on Windows Mobile is practically unreadable on the iPhone. Then there is the dealbreaker of (GrandCentral) visual voicemail requiring Flash which the iPhone doesn't have.

So I did some googling, coming across one iPhone app ( http://www.google.com/search?q=granddialer ), GrandDialer, which enables you to route calls through GrandCentral. While cool, this does not address my problem. I also came across a web app for working with voicemail - iVoicemail ( http://rectu.ms/iVoiceMail ).

I am hoping that I can make the combination of the horrible-looking GrandCentral mobile web page (for admin) and iVoicemail (for triaging messages) works for me until something better comes along. It gives me the heebie-jeebies handing my account info off to a website in the .ms TLD with no usage or privacy page, but they have some respect in the Apple community ( http://www.apple.com/webapps/utilities/ivoicemail.html , http://www.appsafari.com/phone/6646/ivoicemail ).