Call phones from gmail

Posted on August 26th, 2010 by Richard Catto 2,954 views

So today, I got all excited because gmail introduced this new facility where you can call phones from within gmail using their chat facility. I installed the necessary plugin and fired it up. Google generously credited me with a whole 10 US cents of airtime. I called my South African cell phone number, and it rang! So now all I needed to do was buy some airtime and I could start calling, and that’s where it all fucked out.

When I clicked the link to add airtime, google informed me that my country was not yet supported. So, there’s this wonderful VoIP facility right there in my gmail but I can’t do shit with it until google decides to get off its fat ass and take my money.

Check out the google blog entry.

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6 Responses to “Call phones from gmail”

1. forestvalley Says:
   August 27th, 2010 at 07:30

   BUNCH OF WALLY’S

2. sybergypsy_ct Says:
   October 27th, 2010 at 18:08

   Arghh!

   A bit duplicitous: you’ve got a cellphone.

   Use it.

3. Richard Catto Says:
   October 28th, 2010 at 00:13

   My cellphone works out very expensive.

4. sybergypsy_ct Says:
   October 28th, 2010 at 13:13

   …. “until google decides to get off its fat ass and take my money.”

   It does not seem as if you’ve a shortage of that?

   Nothing is life is free, and for everything else there’s mastercard.

5. Richard Catto Says:
   October 28th, 2010 at 13:43

   Shut up, short shit.

6. sybergypsy_ct Says:
   October 29th, 2010 at 16:46

   Muahahahahaha

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