Call phones from Gmail

[the_poet]

Gmail voice and video chat makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer’s microphone and speakers. But until now, this required both people to be at their computers, signed into Gmail at the same time. Given that most of us don’t spend all day in front of our computers, we thought, “wouldn’t it be nice if you could call people directly on their phones?”

Starting today, you can call any phone right from Gmail.

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[johname]

"Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free for at least the rest of the year "

 

[the_poet]

Did you US and Canadian try it? Are you actually able to make free calls to regular phones?