With Apple dilly-dallying about its approval of the Google Voice application for the iPhone, Google has now released a completely Web-based version of its Voice service that works not only on the iPhone, but also on the Pre and Pixi handsets from Palm.

Announcing the new application in its Tuesday blog post, Google elaborated that the application will bring a large portion of the functionality of the ‘native’ Google Voice apps for Android and BlackBerry to the browsers of the iPhone and the Palm handsets; thereby allowing the users to make calls, listen to voice mail, and send text messages for free.

Talking about the new version of Voice, Google managers Marcus Foster and David Singleton said in the blog post: “One of the great benefits of Web applications is that you don't need to download and install an app on your phone.”

Similar to the mobile Gmail, the new Web-based Google Voice version is one of the most app-like browser services. Though the facility will essentially be a secondary interface on the iPhone, the use of Google Sync will enable the users to sync their phone’s contacts with their Google Account.

Despite the fact that the impressive Web-based Google Voice clearly is short of the value that a ‘true native’ Google Voice for iPhone, it still brings to the handset nearly 80 percent of the Google Vice experience!