Google has extended its free SMS chat service to India,

whereby users can send text messages to mobile phones via

Gmail Chat.

The SMS service is available in India and 51 other countries in

Asia, Africa and North America.

This feature was activated for Indian users on 10 October and

is available for regular Gmail users as well as those on Google

Apps.

Google first introducing the G-Mail sms in the country Africa.

Gmail recently introduced their SMS chat feature, using

which users can directly send SMS to their GMail contacts

directly on their phone. This feature is not same as free SMS

sites like way2sms.com and others. These free SMS sites only

allows customers to send SMS to their contacts but GMail

SMS chat allows customers to get a reply from their contacts

as well.

First of all sign into your GMail account.

From Gmail, click on Settings, and go to the Labs tab.

Scroll down until you see “Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat” and select Enable.

Also enable the “SMS in Chat gadget” and then Save Changes.

Now go to the Chat Box and Search for your Friend whom you wish to SMS

through Gmail chat.

Now a pop-up window will appear on your screen asking the country and mobile

number of your friend. Now enter your friend’s mobile number and save it.

Now one chat window will come up and you’re initially 50 SMS credits are

assigned. As you send one SMS credit will go down by one. Type out your

message and hit enter.

And within 5 to 10 seconds your friend will receive your SMS from a number

which is assigned with your GMail account. If your friend replies to your SMS on

the number from where he received SMS, that SMS will appear into your chat box.

Just like a normal chat your SMS conversion will be stored in chat history.

In point of view of Spamming, GMail have assigned credits of

50 to each customer. As he sends one SMS credit will decrease

by one.

As for every sent SMS credit goes down by one, same as that

for every SMS you receive on GMail chat your credit will

increase by 5 but will exceed 50 credits.

If at some stage your credit goes to Zero, Google will add one

credit to your account in next 24 hours.

If you receive an unwanted SMS message from Gmail Chat, you

can block future messages from the sender. Just reply to the

message with the word 'BLOCK'.

If you change your mind about that sender, you can send a

message with the phrase 'UNBLOCK' to the phone number from

which the message was sent (the SMS messages sent from Gmail

Chat have their own number associated with the sender's email

account).

The Google’s SMS chat service is likely to be having

the impact on free SMS sites like fullonsms.com,

way2sms.com, etc. as for the reason of one way

communication and late delivery services. These sites are

also not able to send the SMS to those customers those who

have DND(Do Not Disturb)activated on their mobile

numbers.

1)Main difference in message credit: 50 messages(unlimited)

1) Unlimited messages

2) If you receive an unwanted

SMS message from Gmail

Chat, you can block future

messages from the sender. Just

reply to the message with the

word 'BLOCK'.

2) There is no facility in this

Google’s Gmail SMS Chat feature is absolutely good for

having the chatting with someone whom you don’t want to

give your personal phone number as well as for formal

chatting’s with your friends with no spamming as well as

good delivery service.