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Gmail Enables SMS Messages from Chat for US Phones. No, Really.

Submitted by Magitam from Google Reader

Dec 15, 2008

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If you're a big SMS user, you've no doubt encountered this situation: you're sitting at your desk in front of your computer, you get an SMS message, you pick up your phone and respond. The conversation continues as you hack away on your handset keyboard, making typos and resorting to l33t speak to convey your message. All the while, a full-size keyboard - and possibly far fewer typos - sits inches away.

Now, you may have the option to rectify that situation with a new Gmail Labs feature that adds SMS messaging to Gmail chat.

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You may remember having heard about this feature back in October. It got a lot of publicity and a number of users were eager to try it. There was only one problem: thanks to some last minute glitches the feature didn't release when expected. Now, those glitches have been resolved and the Gmail chat SMS functionality is in the wild - for US phones, at least.

How do you use it? After activating the feature through Google Labs, simply establish a mobile phone number for the contact with whom you want to exchange SMS messages. And begin f

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Comments (1)

Paulswansen,

Dec 16, 2008

If you send two SMS to a phone and get no response you're locked out in sending any more until that individual responds. It's much more of a two way street in order to be effective.