SMS Text Message with Gmail Chat

by Joe Stewart on Fri, 2008-10-31 13:21
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Gmail logo Google Labs is rolling out a feature that will allow you to send a SMS message to a friend's cell phone from inside Gmail's chat. This is not groundbreaking news in and of itself. Yahoo and AOL already have this. SMS via AOL/AIM is the one reason I still use AIM every now and then.

Instead of sending email to the cell service provider or create a temporary id, your gmail account will be assigned a phone number in the 406 area code.

Unfortunately I mostly use a Google Apps account so don't normally see all these cool new things available in the Labs. A regular gmail.com account of mine does not have this feature added yet. So I can't use it yet.

Has anybody tried it yet? What are your impressions?

Via: Techcrunch: Gmail Labs Adds Text Messaging Feature

and Webmonkey: OMG! Gmail Adds SMS Chat 

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Submitted by Joe Stewart on Wed, 2008-11-19 11:38.
Update: Looks like they had a glitch in the rollout and it is not going to be released yet. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/almost-new-in-labs-sms-text-messaging.html

Another update: SMS Now Availabe in GMail Chat

Submitted by Joe Stewart on Thu, 2008-12-11 11:07.
Really new in Labs this time: SMS Text Messaging for chat http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/really-new-in-labs-this-time-sms-text.html Seems to support the same carriers as the other Google SMS stuff.

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