You can now send SMS text messages to anyone in your Gmail address book right from the Gmail website.
Go to your Gmail Labs settings and enable the "Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat" feature. The facility is currently available only for US phone numbers.
You can send (and receive) text messages via the embedded chat in Gmail website but not from the standalone Google Talk client. Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Messenger and AOL AIM service have had the SMS messaging feature for quite some time now. Thanks Steve.
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Reader Comments
Hi Amit,
Iam unable to find Lab setting at all in my gmail settings.
Where can i find that?
Written by Lax on 10.31.08
That green flask like icon near your Setting link in Gmail (upper right hand area) will take you to the Gmail Labs page.
Written by Amit on 10.31.08
hi Amit, I am a well wisher of you so I am putting this before you, previously your blog post are very informative and good; I find that the quality of your postings have been fallen drastically, please do a check on this and we wish to get some ground rocking articles from you. These are very common one and these seems to be small before your potential content writing.
Written by Avinash on 10.31.08
Amit,
Bless you! I love your posts, and find them helpful. Please keep up the good work. Happy Halloween!
Written by Bill Blue on 10.31.08
I can’t find any such feature under labs setting .. may be google has’nt rolled it out yet for all the users.
Written by Supreet on 10.31.08
I don’t think google has enabled this Lab feature on all accounts yet…It’s Fri morn and I still don’t seem to have the option of enabling SMS Text in my Labs tab
Written by ajit on 10.31.08
@ ajit, supreet, etc.
Assuming you are from India, “The facility is currently available only for US phone numbers.”
Written by Praveen Ratna Deepak on 10.31.08
Almost new in Labs: SMS Text Messaging for chat
Friday, October 31, 2008 3:52 PM
Posted by Leo Dirac, Product Manager
***So, in the spirit of Labs, we’ve pulled SMS chat back to fix it, and we’ll get it back out to you as soon as it’s ready — probably within 2 weeks, so stay tuned.***
Written by Dhapu Sridhar on 11.01.08
SMS Text Messaging for Gmail/Chat
This option as been disabled for 2 weeks to fix the bugs and all. (As read in Gmail Blog)
Written by srideva2002 on 11.01.08
Note from GMAIL : “When you’d try to turn it on, it wouldn’t fully enable. We thought about keeping it out there — bugs and all — but the experience wasn’t that great. So, in the spirit of Labs, we’ve pulled SMS chat back to fix it, and we’ll get it back out to you as soon as it’s ready — probably within 2 weeks, so stay tuned.”
Written by sam dosan on 11.01.08
We can only hope that this option will become available in Australia soon! Please make it happen Google/Gmail
Written by Gold Coast SEO on 11.03.08
This feature is still not available for Google Apps accounts. Boo-hoo!
Written by Dave on 11.19.08