Google adds phone calling to Gmail

[Tejas Barot]

Hello,

Google's Gmail isn't just a mailbox -- it now doubles as a phone. Users of Google's Web e-mail service can now call any phone in the U.S. or Canada for free (and make international calls for almost free) from within their browser.

Google announced this feature in a blog post a few minutes ago. It seems to be built off the voice and video chat feature Google added two years ago, as it requires installing a new version of its chat plug-in, available for Windows XP or newer, Mac OS X 10.4 or newer and some versions of Linux.

(Note that this plug-in will also install a Google software-update utility in the background, which would unnerve me more if Google hadn't released that tool's code under an open-source license last year.)

Read more :- http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/08/google_adds_google_voice_to_gm.html

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[Hiren Patel]

Dear Tejas,

Thanks for nice informative post but still Google Voice is not available in our country & its limited to only US & Canada usres. Check screenshot in attachment for your ready reference. If you have any workaround to use this service in India then let us know.

Thanks,

Hiren
RHCE, CCNA, MCSE, MCPI
Manager IT
GMPL

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[Tejas Barot]

Hello,

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Hiren Patel <patel...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Tejas,

Thanks for nice informative post but still Google Voice is not available in our country & its limited to only US & Canada usres. Check screenshot in attachment for your ready reference. If you have any workaround to use this service in India then let us know.

Yes, I know It's not available for India.

We can only use that if Google launch in India, So I don't think any workaround work.

We have to wait and watch.

 

[Hiren Patel]

Dear VGLUG Members,

I glad to inform you that I found work around to solve the issue of free calling to USA/Canada from Gmail.

Only thing is that you have to show Google that you are using Gmail from US IP & that is possible via free public VPN services. I tested it & it work wonderfully for me, I called my brother in Canada for testing. I used http://hotspotshield.com/ for my use, if you guys found any more free public VPN then let me know.

One thing you have to note that I used it on M$Windows ;-) & now you guys have to find out, how to use it in Linux :-)

Have a happy free calling to USA/Canada.

Thanks & regards,

Hiren
RHCE, CCNA, MCSE, MCPI
Manager IT
GMPL