Google free internet phone

Just came across this article, Google Inc. announced this morning that Gmail users will be able to initiate free phone calls to the U.S. and Canada from within the e-mail service, taking on Skype in the competitive Internet telephony space.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_id=70848&tsp=1

Nice features. I'll be calling my friend in Canada for free

 

I cannot find any official announcement.

 

It is not Impossible, Google dominating the market.

 

This is a natural compliment to Google Voice. I'm surprised they didn't do it sooner. Usually they appear into a market and crush the competition through offering their services better and for free - but Skype is already free. I don't know what they can do to make it better than it already is.

 

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/call-phones-from-gmail.html

 

Google will archive any and all the calls made on their servers or anything they can get to.
they will try to make money out of it at some point in the feature.

So, if you use Google service, be careful what you talk.

 

i am try this. and it work

 

So only US to Canada will be free for the rest of the year not including other countries! And they offer low rates for other countries!

 

yes it is awesome I was playing with it for a while

 

It looks like this service only available in US.
Whoever thinks it is good thing, don't jump into conclusions. This move not only steps into Skype/eBay yard, but also into whole telecommunications. If that will affect telco business, they will find ways to compensate themselves, for example will charge more for data plans, which eventually will step into Google's yard. They (Google & telecommunications) will find out, but we, as consumers, will pay more.
Google is not charity, they not doing things for free.
Another thing is privacy. You never know if your calls actually recorded and indexed - Google really likes to index data.

 

It would be cool if this worked from Gmail on a Blackberry. It would be great for international calls.

 

This should be fun to use if you're going to have casual conversations. Nothing serious, though.

 

Hi,

I have also receive such notice in one of my Gmail account but have not try it since I have heard currently it is only free to use it within US and Canada.

all the best,

 

I no info about this, one of my friend is working in google he told that they are working on this

 

I have not tried, but i get the call message every time i look at an email in gmail.

 

Yes, it is true. You can use google voice as well now outside USA. Android support of Google voice has been extended now! Pretty impressive!

 

is there an iphone app for this yet?

 

definitely agreed. no chance.

 

Google internet phone is more better than Skype.

 

when this will be available on android and not only in US.