Hard telling if it's Google taking a another shot at Apple and Co, but the company released a new version of their Google Voice service for the iPhone on Tuesday according to Reuters.

There's a slight catch though.  It can only be accessed through the phone's web browser versus all the other native apps that are able to be directly downloaded onto the iPhone.

Most will recall that last July, Google said that Apple turned down its application to offer Google Voice as a native app.  That tousle displayed the increasing competition between the two companies and even got the FCC in on the matter to get more information from the two.  Apple's response was that the app wasn't necessarily rejected, but under review.

Google Voice provides users the capability to make cheap long-distance calls and also the ability to forward calls from a single phone number to multiple phones, amongst other things.

Google describes the new version as a "Web app," saying it is much more interactive than the previous browser-based version, with the chance to listen to voice mails directly from within the browser and to dial phone numbers on an interactive on-screen keypad.

A Google spokeswoman said that Google had not received any updates from Apple regarding a native app version of Voice on the iPhone.  Apple reps weren't available for comment.

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