Thursday, September 30, 2010

Send free SMSs to your friends from Gmail

Stumbled on a feature today that has been active for quite a while but never noticed it.The ability to send free SMSs from a Gmail account to any mobile phone(at the moment I can only confirm it works to safaricom lines).Here is how to get it running







1.Log in to your Gmail account
2.Google should detect which country you are from and it will automatically show a pop up menu guiding you through it but if it does not continue to step 3
3.Go to the settings menu in gmail
4.Click on the labs menu and activate two options,text messaging in chat and sms in chat gadget
5.Once you have done this when you type a number in the chat box(the one written search,add or invite) it will give you the option to send an SMS
6.Receiving the SMS is free but a reply will be charged at standard network rates,you are also limited to 50 free sms every 24 hrs

For more details or if you want to sign-up to gmail click here