Google on Thursday started rolling out a new feature for its Gmail service: SMS messaging from the Gmail chat window in the left hand navigation pane.
The new feature is available through Gmail Labs, which can be accessed from a tab on the Settings page. It may not be immediately available to all Gmail users simultaneously, as is common when Google enables new features. Google expects to post an announcement on its Gmail blog late Thursday or on Friday.
To send an SMS message, a Gmail user simply enters an SMS-capable mobile phone number into the chat window and that prompts a "Send SMS" popup menu. Google's implementation of computer-to-phone SMS includes a particularly helpful feature: It assigns the Gmail sender a persistent pseudo-phone number so that the SMS recipient can send SMS messages back to the Gmail user at a later time using a consistent identifier. Typically, a computer user sending an SMS message to a mobile phone would create a different temporary identifier each session.
But last night they found a glitch.When we try to turn it on, it wouldn't fully enable. They thought about keeping it out there -- bugs and all -- but the experience wasn't that great. So, in the spirit of Labs, they've pulled SMS chat back to fix it, and they said that it will get back out to you as soon as it's ready -- probably within 2 weeks.
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