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November 2, 2008 Print Preview

SMS Feature in GMail

Yahoo! has offered this for quite some time and Google is now following suit. Gmail, is soon going to be incorporated with a new feature that lets users send SMS through Gmail.  This is good news for us avid Gmail users and we're giving it a big thumbs up as just another reason to be using Gmail.

Last minute news is that just before it was to be "shipped" to the GLabs, they found quite a few bugs which made the experience a bit unpleasant.  So, it was temporarily shelved for roughly another 2 weeks.

It really intrigues me about how these things work and Garett Rogers of ZDNet.com gives a good account of how this stuff really works.

Google has reserved 1000 phone numbers especially for this purpose.  What happens is when we send an SMS, GMail assigns us a number to communicate with that single person. So, SMS n people n unique numbers are assigned to you, where n < 1000, assuming a condition that you might not be communicating with that many in a single session.

Interesting,  it seems to rejuvenate our experience and give us a way to reach out to friends much quicker from anywhere to everywhere.  We can't wait another 2 weeks!

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