Friday, December 12, 2008

Friends Offline? Send them SMS via GML

Your Gmail account is no longer just your chat, email and storage tool.  It is now your SMS tool, soon to come. 

"Now you can keep the conversations going with a new Labs feature that lets you send SMS text messages right from Gmail." says Gmail Leo Dirac, Product Manager of Gmail.

Your Gmail account can now send Simple Text Messages to all your friends in the United States.  As the Gmail team work on this feature and perfect it in the near future, we can expect free SMS send from Gmail accounts all over the world.  Currently, you can send an SMS to U.S. Phone numbers but the good thing is, you can do this from anywhere in the world.

That means, if you are in Africa and your friend is in the U.S., you can shoot them SMS straight to their phone and they can reply back to your GMail chat just like Instant Messaging.  The down side is that the receiver may or may not be charged for the incoming SMS depending on their plan with their respective provider.

GMail users may be proud of GMail for its storage and search efficiency, but trust me, they'll love it for this one!



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