Google Testing Voice Calling In Gmail

Tootech writes "Google could be adding the ability to make phone calls from the Google Chat interface. Google is testing a Web-based service within Gmail that will allow users to place phone calls from their in-boxes. It's launched from the Google Chat window on the lower left-hand side of a Gmail page and allows users to place and receive calls from within their contacts through a user interface that strongly resembles the one used in Google Voice."

Comments

Finally

[gedw99]

this is great news. anyone know if it will be global, and not just US based ?

Re:Finally

[Ironhandx]

Its great news, and it isn't.

I for one use chat so that I don't have to talk to anyone... including the option to talk to the person isn't making my day any better.

This is a very useful calls for cheap feature, but I hope they add a way to disable it. Maybe a sort of "mute" button but the mute hides your ability to talk to the other person.

I know that sounds anti social, but I spend a good portion of my day glued to a phone for business reasons. I don't feel like being glued to one again at night for family reasons.

Re:Product merger perhaps?

[Anonymous Coward]

except for buzz, where everybody turned it off because it interfered with the GMail experience.
And BTW, wave.google.com has been a failure, wave as a technology and protocol still rocks. GMail, docs and other google products are being reworked to have wave technology under the hood, and companies are starting to use the wave protocol and its technologies to deliver rich collaboration.

BINGO!! I've got Bingo!

Re:Product merger perhaps?

[duguk]

BINGO!! I've got Bingo!

Dammit! I was only waiting for 'Synergy'!

Re:Product merger perhaps?

[mark72005]

My card sucked, I still needed "alignment", "visibility", and "win-win"

Yo Dawg

[halfaperson]

I heard you like to chat, so we put a chat in your chat so you can chat while you chat.