Gmail Enables SMS Messaging From Chat
Google has just added an awesome new feature to Gmail. It allows you to send a Text message to anybody’s phone using the Chat feature in Gmail.
It’s only available for cell phones in the United States right now, but you can send texts to your friends with US phone numbers from anywhere in the world. You can start by just typing a phone number into the search box in the chat window on the left, then select “Send SMS.” You can also select the contact you want to SMS first and then add their phone number
Google will save your friends’ numbers in your Contacts, so next time you can just type their name in the chat box and select Send SMS. The reply gets routed back to Gmail’s servers and shows up in your friend’s Gmail chat window. Each of your friends’ messages will come from a different 406 number so you can reply to any message and it will get back to the right person. Messages from the same person will always come from the same number, so you can even bookmark it in your phone.
Just click on Settings, and go to the Labs tab. Scroll down until you see “Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat” and select Enable and Save Changes.
