Free phone calls through gmail

[Matthew Lengenfelder]

Basically Google has turned gmail into a voice/video chat with a small addin. So you can make outgoing calls through gmail. You can also get free incoming calls through "google voice" and choose to route those calls to either a cell phone/traditional phone or you can now route those calls to "google chat" which is the free addin for gmail. So gmail is now a phone+. Skype might be going out of business...

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-more-than-1-million-calls-through-gmail-in-24-hours/38500?tag=nl.e539

[Matthew Lengenfelder]

heh, didn't realize that you could setup multiple phones to ring and whichever one picks up gets the phone call. So now while I'm at my computer at work, if my cell rings instead of picking it up, I can log into gmail quick (or just switch tabs since it's open on another tab more often than not) and pick up the phone call there. - I use a pay as you go phone, so this could save me quite a few bucks in the long run.

Matt L.