Google Voice Fans Start Petition for a Desktop Client

While that release is a Web-based program to let users route calls to home, work and mobile phones through a special number from Google, TechCrunch has tantalized users for months with the idea that the company is building a desktop client of the software.

Gizmo5, which Google had used to enable users to connect calls from desktop to desktop and desktop to phone, is an alternative to the popular Skype VOIP service, which boasts almost 500 million users.  

"We designed Google Voice to be endpoint-agnostic and we certainly want it to be accessible from any type of endpoint, not just phones," Paquet told eWEEK June 21. "The direction in which we are going to keep working is to use the Web, which is probably the best UI there is in the world, to give you more control and personalization over your communications."

People who desire a desktop VOIP client for Google Voice may navigate to giveusgvdesktop.com. The petition, launched July 2, appears poorly timed given the Independence Day holiday in the U.S.