I wrote an earlier post on how to replace you’re cellphone’s voice mail with Google Voice. That was for generic GSM phones; happily those instructions work without change on the iPhone.

I use Google Voice for my voice mail because it forwards text transcript of messages to my email, and because I can listen to the messages from any computer.

What if you don’t have Google Voice? According to the New York Times, Google is sending out new Google Voice invites to some of the users who requested them .

iPhone freak mentions the imminent arrival of GV Mobile, an iPhone app that

“will allow you to dial via Google Voice (like the old GrandDialer), retrieve your call log (received, missed, made), retrieve your voicemail (an issue with the old GrandCentral), access to iPhone address book, and update account settings (phones to dial when someone calls and other misc. settings).”

It was submitted for approval a month ago so hopefully we’ll see it soon.