Call Phones from Gmail
Google launched today a service to let us, users, call any landline or mobile phones from within Gmail. Calls to the US and Canada will be free at least until the end of this year, but the rates for the rest of the world are really, really interesting.
Taking for example Brazil, the country I happen to live in, I’m going to pay $0.02, or approximately R$ 0,035 per minute to call São Paulo (landline phones). In comparison, using Skype I’d pay R$ 0.072 for the same minute. Yes, I know!
The only catch: although Google say they are rolling this feature only for US customers, it seems that anyone that sets their Gmail account to English is able / is going to be able to use this feature. If you can’t use it now, just wait until the change propagates to all the US Gmail servers.
PS: if you didn’t hear, Google launched an official plugin for Gmail Voice and Video for Linux a few days ago that enables Linux users to have access to this feature.
