Google announced yesterday, it is adding VoIP calling to Gmail for U.S. users. Desktop calls to any phone in the U.S. and Canada will be free at least until the end of the year, and international calls will be billed at rates as low as two cents a minute. Using a combination of Google voice and video chat, this new phone calling feature from Gmail will let users dial numbers right from its web interface and talk to their contacts using headphone-mic.
However, Google Voice isn’t coming to Google Talk, at least for now, because the focus was on the web integration. SMS is available in Gmail as a Labs feature, but isn’t part of this integration. It’s not rolling out in Google Apps today, but it will in the near future.
It’s not clear if Google Voice will be changing, or whether this new service is a completely separate offering. The user interfaces appear the same—for example, the same icons are used to label missed calls or placed calls — but Google Voice is not a VoIP service. Users of the new chat/phone call service aren’t required to have a Google Voice account, and calls placed to U.S. or Canadian numbers will be free, with discounts on international calls as compared to standard rates.
To get this new feature working, you’ll need to download install Voice and Video plug-in. Free calling is available for U.S. nationals to the U.S. and Canada for the rest of the year at least. Users based in U.S. can make calls to the U.K., France, Germany, China, Japan and many more countries at very low rates like $0.06/per minute (Rs. 2.80 approx.) right from their Gmail interface.
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We wonder if this feature would be made available to Apple devices that use Gmail’s HTML5 based web interface. Google has already faced a cold war with Apple over Google Voice and we’re sure that all Android phones would be the first ones to get this feature.
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Another great feature from google.But not useful for making domestic call.
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The usefulness will depend where you are from! If you’re from the US or Canada, it will be a great feature for you. If not, not really!
Why would we even be bothered about local calls, as we get cheaper tariff rates in mobile providers, The service is useful for international calls and meaningless for domestic.
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Exactly. Perhaps google didn’t count in still finding people who are more intelligent than them.
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Pretty nice and useful feature. It will soon replace Skype, I guess that’s the idea
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Well, I don’t think so. To replace Skype, Google will have to buy them first!
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also see this Limitations of Google Free Telephone Calls : http://goo.gl/YFPv
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waiting for it to come to India …
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sorry to jump in , have you gys tried new “Google Priority Inbox, “
i have just tried google priority inbox and noticed a serious problem, this can arise *if you are having huge number of starred mail in your inbox*.
In such a case your *important and unread mail will come over top* and that’s ok, but *places for other unread mails that will come below starred mail will decreases*, so yet it is organized but *you have to check other pages* too if you are having huge number of mails daily.
So i will say for few user it will be organized but for few it can cause panic.
goint to be another google failure i guess …lol
It is a good features in gmail.Is it possible to pay call amount through google adsense.because it helps lot of adsense users.
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I’m all in I pay for unlimited long distance and got a call the other night telling me I could not use my long distance to call BTR. I am fighting this I pay for unlimited how can they tell me to whom I can place thses calls. I called the FCC. Ready to try google need a good headset
Of course Teri; if you are from USA or Canada you must definitely try out this nice little Google Call feature.