Google Adds VoIP Calls to Gmail

For loyal Google users, Gmail has everything they could ever need – simple access to email, reminders about appointments and events, a convenient chat feature, and more. It didn’t take long for Google to realize that their users do like VoIP because it’s cheap and virtually free so today, they added a VoIP client that lest you make phone calls directly from your Gmail account.

The new VoIP client is different from Google Voice because it allows you to call phones directly from your web browser, rather than users in front of their desks. All you need to do is look at the lefthand side of your Gmail, where your contacts appear, and you’ll be able to call your contacts. Calls within the USA and Canada will be free for 2010 while rates for international calls start at $.02 a minute. That’s really cheap! The service gets even better for users of Google Voice because your number gets displayed as the outbound caller ID when you call from Gmail, allowing everyone in your contact list to know who’ll be calling them next. You can also receive calls to your Gmail account through your Google Voice number.

Unfortunately, this service is only available to US-based users, which means we from the Philippines will have to wait a bit longer before we can use this nifty feature. Still, Google says they’re working to make this service more available elsewhere.

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