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Google Officially Brings Voice To Gmail

Posted by samzenpus on from the talk-away dept.

siliconbits writes "Google has finally added voice support to its popular Gmail email service which means that users will soon be able to call landlines and mobiles worldwide for free or for extremely low prices. The announcement was made at a press conference in San Francisco in front of a few selected press members."

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  1. To remove the annoying phone icon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    To remove the annoying phone icon: settings>>chat>>google voice (disable outbound voice calling)

  2. encrytion issues by lazycam · · Score: 5, Informative

    Last time I checked Google voice services did not support encryption. Unless they are talking about implementing security measures similar to Skype, I am not interested.

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    1. Re:encrytion issues by tukang · · Score: 4, Informative

      Skype doesn't give you a free phone number and also doesn't allow you to make/recieve calls to landlines for free. Google Voice + Google Call can essentially replace a landline (except for 911) and if they bring this to android you could technically get a phone with only a data plan. I just tried it and it works nicely on linux. They should update the google voice extension so you can receive & make calls w/o needing to have gmail open but I'm sure that will come later. The call quality wasn't always great but overall it's a great addition that unlike buzz & wave is immediately useful to me.

    2. Re:encrytion issues by tukang · · Score: 4, Informative

      Might be because skype is p2p based and there is law that bans p2p in certain areas of government because people were unintentionally sharing gov't files. Why your Senator can't Skype

  3. related, nearly a dupe by jDeepbeep · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also from today on /. Google testing voice calling in GMail

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