Gmail Trying to be like Skype? New Call Feature.
 

Just saw this link in my Gmail today.
Free calls for all of 2010.

http://www.cyberagedave.com/GmailPhone.jpg

Too little, too late.

Google missed the boat on this one. Skype owns the googster.

I love skype, it's the only messenger I use.

yep, same here. skype & email.... and GFY of course.

Skype is da bomb. I just wish the call forwarding feature would let you get text messages from Skype forwarded to your Blackberry. As far as I read, you can only forward voice calls through Skype to your cell phone. Is this possible and I missed it in the documentation?

One thing I don't like is, if skype forwards a call to your cell and you reject it, the caller can then leave voicemail on the cell. I would prefer they got rejected back to skype voicemail, but it just don't work that way. So I generally don't forward unless I'm definitely gonna be gone for a good while. (as opposed to just letting everything go to skype voicemail.)

sorry, I realized this in no way addresses your question. :1orglaugh :winkwink:

Skype rules, but I am a google-whore so.... :)

i'm excited to be able to answer my google voice number from gmail

Google is becoming sort of like 'mother' from Alien/Aliens. it's a little scary, but i just don't care lol

I use Google Voice.. It's my local phone number and I use it as a text / message service. Then with Google Chat within gmail or the software can both do Video/Voice and Phone calls like Skype does. Just click the person in your address book and call them, you can use the software or your browser. Myself and Tanker have used it before... it works perfectly fine unless you close your browser by mistake.

I have to ask this dumb question though...


is it pronounced "skipe", like "pipe"?

or like, "skippy" ? like, skippy peanut butter... :helpme

There is never a dump question.

It's like Skipe, that domain must have been used when they started.

If I'm not mistaken, the name is basically a play on scape but with sky, so it'd just be "skipe".

that sucks..... i was hoping it was skippy. :disgust

Skype (pronounced /ˈskaɪp/) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype

once someone calls you screwing themselves with a dildo via video call

you'll never not use skype

I have no desire to download and use YET ANOTHER communications program (Skype) but if I can do something new from within gmail, I just might.

I can't be the only one.

Skype is one of those things that falls in the "too good to be true" category. It instantly had me sold for life. And I'm pretty persnicketey about apps, and especially these types of apps. Skype is the real deal all around. ICQ is a dinosaur.