Gmail Adds SMS Sending Option to Chat

Samir Makwana, Oct 31, 2008 1815 hrs IST

Gmail will add a SMS sending feature as an experimental function through Google Labs. The SMS option in Google chat can be enabled through the Google Labs function in Gmail. Currently, this feature is not available in India, not even across the Globe.

This SMS option allows sending text messages to your contact if you have their cell phone number stored in your contact list. The recipient gets a 406 area code on receiving the message sent the first time. All messages sent from the Gmail account will carry one number out of the several thousands of numbers made available by Google. The recipient can obviously save that number for future chats.

Added to that, the recipient can also reply via text message through this 406 number which makes it workable for a two way communication.

This feature is currently not available to all Gmail users. Gmail's product manager Keith Coleman told WebMonkey that it will be available to all Gmail users by Thursday evening (in US). So this feature might be available to Indians by midnight or tomorrow morning hopefully.

A similar feature was introduced for the new Yahoo Mail in August 2007 which didn't quite excite users. Hopefully, this feature works well with Gmail.

The pricing of this future service isn't known yet.

Source: Webmonkey

USER COMMENTS

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by durga prasad, hyderadad, on Feb 18, 2009 07:07 PM, Report abuse Reply

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by deepak, bangalore, on Nov 08, 2008 05:11 PM, Report abuse Reply

this is a very good opportunity

by syed mansoor, chennai, on Nov 05, 2008 02:22 PM, Report abuse Reply

i have a query- How can i send SMS currently through a computer to a mobile and the frequecy is almost 5 sms aday to a mobile is there somethng that you could help me out

by ashish ji, indore, on Nov 03, 2008 03:20 PM, Report abuse Reply

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by N S YADAV, DELHI, on Nov 03, 2008 02:28 PM, Report abuse Reply

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by siddesh, B'lore, on Nov 03, 2008 01:25 PM, Report abuse Reply

by Raghuraman, Chennai, on Nov 02, 2008 12:08 AM, Report abuse Reply

how to send sms

by Prakash Dutta, kolkata, on Nov 01, 2008 06:21 PM, Report abuse Reply

ILU

by MITLASH, DELHI, on Nov 01, 2008 12:25 PM, Report abuse Reply

This Feature is already in WLM from quite a long time. So their is no mean to talk about this.

by Nikhil, Delhi, on Nov 01, 2008 10:17 AM, Report abuse Reply