OMFGWTFBBQ! Gmail Adds SMS TXTing to Chat Feature
OMFGWTFBBQ! Gmail Adds SMS TXTing to Chat Feature
Posted 10/31/2008 at 12:53pm
| by Alex Castle
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Google’s adding yet another feature to Gmail’s formidable (and sometimes frivolous) arsenal. Starting soon, you’ll be able to send SMS messages to your friends’ phones from Gmail’s built-in Chat feature.
When it’s made available, you’ll need to enable the feature in the “Labs” tab of the Gmail settings page. Once that’s done, you’ll be able to send messages to people’s phones by simply entering a phone number into the Chat search box and selecting the SMS option.
When a person receives a text from a Gmail user, it’ll show up as coming from a phone number with a 406 area code. The first time you send a Gmail SMS, you’ll be assigned one of the thousands of numbers Google has reserved, and all messages you send in the future will come from the same number. The receiver can reply to the text and it’ll show up in Gmail chat.
The feature should become available today or in the next few days. When it does, will you use it? Let us know after the jump.
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Talcum X
November 03, 2008 at 8:59am
Or will I be able to send attachments? Wallpaper, ringtones, etc. And whats going on with my signature, it's messed up every time I post something. Looks fine in the creation screen.
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kathik123
March 30, 2010 at 11:25pm
Interesting read, thanks for helping keep me busy at work ;)
web sms service(http://burstsms.com/)
c8503
November 03, 2008 at 8:56am
yahoo! offers this service already and its totally free, so i can't imagine Google trying to charge for it.
The real question is will it be a feature in the mobile versions of Google software... this is a quick & dirty way to route SMS traffic through your data connection instead of traditional texting, although unlimited texting seems to be a standard feature of most mobile data plans specifically to circumvent this issue...
pepper_roni
October 31, 2008 at 3:10pm
If not then that would be freakin sweet. I don't have a cell but alot of my friends do and it would be nice to know if there are any parties on or anything like that.
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