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Gmail gets voice over IP support
SEARCH ENGINE OUTFIT Google has added voice calling to its Gmail service.
Robin Schriebman, software engineer at Google wrote on the company's blog that it means that users will soon be able to call landlines and mobiles worldwide for free or for low prices.
He said that given that most people don't spend all day in front of our computers, Google thought it would be nice if users could call people directly on their phones.
The VoIP-based service will apparently be available in the US for the time being but some in the UK have managed to access to it already.
Calls to the US and Canada, both to landlines and mobiles, from other countries will remain free until the end of the year without any connection fees while countries like Mexico, France and UK will be charged 1.2p a minute. µ
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I'm not sure about changing language, but we could certainly trick it into believing we are in US/Canada by borrowing IP addresses with a little help from The Onion Router.
Then you can make free calls to there from anywhere in the world.
First Everyone gets to Call Canada & Us For FREE. Both Us & Canada have to pay to Call Outside of there Own Region, So Everybody Gets Same Deal PLUS, Everybody Gets Video,too. FREE if US/Canada are Callee'/Caller.
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If you change your google language to English US you are able to use this...
:)
We've come full circle. Kids today use their phones for nothing but text-messages, so now they can use their e-mail for voice calls.
I wonder if they will give an interface to it through voice. Does this work with linux? Your going to make me look it up and see if it can all be ran through the browser without a client installed. your mean
The phone service works nice, and the calls in USA and Canada are free. I was going to pay Skype 2.99 a month for a similar phone service, but Google came just in time.
There was a hitch. The google phone app defaults to using headphones and a plug in mike. I had to fiddle with my Win 7 audio a bit, to turn off the settings so it would work with the built in mike and speakers on my laptop.
Way to go Inquirer! Looks like Google is learning where to find real tech news!