Send Text Messages from Gmail

Although Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Messenger and AOL AIM services had the SMS messaging facility for quite some time.

Now with Gmail also you can send text messages to any of your friends in your Gmail Account just by typing his or her number from the Gmail website.

In order to activate this service, go to Gmail Lab settings, and enable the “Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat” feature.

You can send (and receive) text messages via the embedded chat in Gmail website but not from the standalone Google Talk client.

Please note, that this facility is currently available for US phone numbers.

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