The MobileSyrup article has been updated, which will help explain some of the problems y'all's are running into:[QUOTE]OK, looks like there are quite a few caveats here.
First, to be able to install the Google Voice app on Android, your account has to have at least one phone with a U.S.-based number. Because I have a T-Mobile SIM registered to my Google account, I was able to force Google to push the GV app to my Rogers phone. Not sure how that works, but it does. If you can’t manage to get it to install, you’ll need to sideload it, which is available by searching for the .APK file on Google.
Second, it looks like only Canadian numbers inside the Android app are allowed to be confirmed. We’ve received reports that iPhone users cannot verify their Canadian numbers, which could mean that Google plans to keep Google Voice for Canadians inside the Android fold. It’s a stretch, but possible.
One of our readers claimed that Google, over the past few weeks, has been allowing some Canadians to purchase a new number on an existing account with a valid Canadian area code. This has since been turned off (and we can’t verify it was ever possible, but we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt) but it may indicate that Google is testing the service officially in our fair land.
It also looks like Google is slowly bringing in Canadian routing numbers, which is why outgoing calls on Android phones were working for some and not others. I was able to successfully make an outgoing local call this morning using GV on my Galaxy S III, and it routed through a 647- number. Yesterday, when I tried to do the same, it gave me the error above.
More information can be found in this (long) HowardForums thread.
Something is happening here, and it’s exciting. Stay tuned for more information.[/QUOTE]
Note that you can't download the Google Voice app using a Canadian carrier, at least not directly. Instead download the Market Unlocker app (using Google Search, not Google Play
), tell it to tell Google Play that you're in the US, then download the latest version of Google Voice.