#Skype com gmail da install#

Update (8/26): This has now been rolled out to everyone in the U.S. We’re working on making this available more broadly - so stay tuned!įor more information, visit /call. If you’re using Google Apps for your school or business, then you won’t see it quite yet.

#Skype com gmail da install#

based Gmail users over the next few days, so you’ll be ready to get started once “Call Phones” shows up in your chat list (you will need to install the voice and video plug-in if you haven’t already). And if you decide to, you can receive calls made to this number right inside Gmail (see instructions). If you have a Google Voice phone number, calls made from Gmail will display this number as the outbound caller ID. 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. Just click “Call phone” at the top of your chat list and dial a number or enter a contact’s name. We worked hard to make these rates really cheap (see comparison table) with calls to the U.K., France, Germany, China, Japan-and many more countries-for as little as $0.02 per minute.ĭialing a phone number works just like a normal phone. 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. Starting today, you can call any phone right from Gmail.Ĭalls to the U.S. Given that most of us don’t spend all day in front of our computers, we thought, “wouldn’t it be nice if you could call people directly on their phones?” But until now, this required both people to be at their computers, signed into Gmail at the same time. Gmail voice and video chat makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer’s microphone and speakers. The latest update of the Skype extension gives you the ability to instantly create free video calls on Skype, with or without a Skype account. Posted by Robin Schriebman, Software Engineer