Gmail adds Cell phone and Video calling features

Google has introduced a new cool feature in his Gmail Home by adding Call phone. With the help of this feature you can make free calls to U.S and Canada and for other countries they are charging very low .

“Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free for at least the rest of the year and calls to other countries will be billed at our very low rates. We worked hard to make these rates really cheap with calls to the U.K., France, Germany, China, Japan—and many more countries—for as little as $0.02 per minute.”

Here is Call rate comparison of Google With other telephony providers

“Dialing a phone number works just like a normal phone. Just click “Call phone” at the top of your chat list and dial a number or enter a contact’s name.

We’ve been testing this feature internally and have found it to be useful in a lot of situations, ranging from making a quick call to a restaurant to placing a call when you’re in an area with bad reception.

If you have a Google Voice phone number, calls made from Gmail will display this number as the outbound caller ID. And if you decide to, you can receive calls made to this number right inside Gmail .”

Visit gmail.com/videochat to get started…