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- OfF3nSiV3, on 12/11/2008, -23/+510"US only for now."
The damn Internet is international! I hate it when good stuff comes out only for US. - BoneStamp, on 12/11/2008, -2/+148The day gmail features push email, I will stand on my desk and do air guitar to the secretary's oldies. Will provide video, and I assume it will go frontpage.
- jggube, on 12/11/2008, -6/+137This is a pretty convenient feature, it really makes Gmail a one-stop-shop for all your communication needs (almost - next up: VoIP).
What I'd like to know is if it will eventually be adopted into Gtalk, their desktop chat client. - TonyCubed, on 12/11/2008, -4/+104Gmail supports Push Mail for it's Android platform, start dancing bitch.
- ryanonfire, on 12/11/2008, -4/+96Is it me or has Google been releasing alot of innovative products/services lately (like more than usual).
- GiggleStick, on 12/11/2008, -4/+83Yeah, it would be cool if you could send text-messages from your phone. I'm sure Google will find a way.
- mpdono, on 12/11/2008, -4/+64AIM has been doing this since like 1998. Not that anyone wants to rep AOL... but just saying...
- creaturecool, on 12/11/2008, -8/+66We need to do away with SMS and just go straight email.
- BoneStamp, on 12/11/2008, -10/+56It's called a test market and it does suck, but most companies do it in various countries for different products. Google is in the US, and most of their developers are in the US, so that is naturally their test market.
- inactive, on 12/11/2008, -7/+48Haven't AOL's Instant Messenger been doing this for a while now?
- mickhead, on 12/11/2008, -0/+30They pay to recieve texts? Thats insane.
- kalkin, on 12/11/2008, -1/+30why boobs of course
- Myztry, on 12/11/2008, -2/+28I read recently to my surprise that in the US they pay for receiving SMS messages.
Years ago ICQ used to allow you to send SMS to Australian phones.
But unfortunately Telstra ended up blocking the messages.
Telstra is by far our largest carrier so this essentially killed any such services.
I doubt they have changed their attitude since we still only pay when sending.
No profit incentive. No go...
Mind you, Telstra sends a free SMS on missed calls, which dial out quickly.
Helps 'encourage' the customer to establish the call using them as the paid carrier, instead of whoever the original caller is with. - ladyarcher85, on 12/11/2008, -0/+22So does yahoo's which is what I'm currently using and so far its been good.
- diggproof, on 12/11/2008, -1/+22Some plans will charge you for receiving SMS / Text Msg
- Mavital, on 12/11/2008, -2/+23Not quite -- Cell phone companies feel that if you recieve a text message you should also be charged, because after all, it is your fault you have friends and your fault they decided to text you.
So you would always need a small text messaging plan to cover your incoming texts. - Phearce, on 12/11/2008, -2/+23Right, the US gets all the good stuff first. Like crippled cell phones that are tied to a specific carrier (prevents using your SIM in cool hardware from another vendor).
- chadsmith729, on 12/11/2008, -1/+21They already have VOIP. If you download Gtalk the client you are able to do calls between each other. The only thing that would make it better is that if you could call a land line (which is what I assume you meant by VoIP). However, computer to computer calls are great!
I would like to see a lot of things incorporated into their Gtalk client. Mainly the video, that's a huge let down at this time not having that incorporated into GTalk. - oblique63, on 12/11/2008, -4/+23this best be accessible from within Android phones... *shakes fist*
- KennMac, on 12/11/2008, -1/+19Merry Christmas... I made you this tinfoil hat.
- enclaved, on 12/11/2008, -0/+17Well, you can actually connect to aim through gmail so...
- aaronhoffmeyer, on 12/11/2008, -1/+17Can you say, "AT&T"?
- BoneStamp, on 12/11/2008, -1/+15Ya, fair enough... I was hoping for something that didn't require a new phone purchase and cancellation of my existing smart phone plan. I guess that's too much to ask. Also, some people argue that android push is not true push.
- gasoline, on 12/11/2008, -2/+14The price of a SMS is insane. A short text-only message costs almost nothing to phone companies.
- ATL, on 06/20/2009, -2/+14I sense some sarcasm...
The benefit of doing it using your data plan instead of the SMS plan is that some of us do not have unlimited SMS messages. If you could do this using your data plan, you might just be able to get rid of your SMS plan completely and save money. - CandidateZero, on 12/11/2008, -0/+12You can video chat in Gmail, though: http://mail.google.com/videochat
- ranon78, on 12/11/2008, -3/+14It says that the other contact may be charged each time I send an SMS ?????
- AndrewWhiplash, on 12/11/2008, -1/+12US Only To receive text. Anyone Can send them.
Offical Gmail Blog Post on it:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/really-new-i ... - Armor1901, on 12/11/2008, -14/+25...which will stay beta for years to come.
- Trifold, on 12/11/2008, -1/+11Aaaand spammers will start sending texts to random numbers in 3...2...1...
- KennMac, on 12/11/2008, -0/+10Except when "Mac" is short for your last name...
- skyshock1, on 12/11/2008, -0/+10The new Street View rollout was pretty "holy *****" http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10120351-2.htm ...
Street View on s60 and WinMo is available now in version 2.3
YouTube is doing 6:9 aspect ratio now (probably in preps for HD content)
They just keep cranking them out. - gadgetlust, on 12/11/2008, -0/+10Anal rape.
- linagee, on 12/11/2008, -1/+10Unless you have to pay per message received also. (Which a lot of plans do.)
- TheGovernor, on 12/11/2008, -0/+9Aim's been doing this for a while:
Add a + in front of the phone number when you add a new buddy and bam, instant messages to the phone. IE: Add Buddy > +14085551234 - Mujokan, on 12/11/2008, -1/+10"oldies"... that is slang for...
- intekra, on 12/11/2008, -0/+8Disable texting on your phone
Change your number
Restraining order
Murder them - Murdats, on 12/11/2008, -0/+8wow, what a retarded system, does this happen anywhere outside america? or for anything else, you get charged for something you didn't agree to receive?
- inactive, on 12/11/2008, -2/+10But AOL sucks... now google have done it we can start using this feature!
- YouAreDead, on 12/11/2008, -11/+19US only
- vtnerd, on 12/11/2008, -5/+13Dugg for ditching Mac.
- grexeo, on 12/11/2008, -0/+8I had this ability back in the mid/late 90's with ICQ. Used it all the time until the UK mobile phone operators prevented ICQ from doing it anymore.
- moleeyes, on 12/11/2008, -1/+9You support Obama and yet talk like the basest of rednecks. Since when is military power analogous to 'best'. What about taking other things into account like the death sentence, religious fundamentalism, education and wanton warmongering?
- BoneStamp, on 12/11/2008, -0/+7@32bytes
In the traditional marketing sense, you're right. But with google, everything is in permanent beta... that's another story of course.
With networked computing solutions, you can't just go from an internal small test to a global product. You need to gradually scale up to find and solve scaling issues before you roll out in countries with larger mobile markets than the United States (Japan, India, China). - sancho, on 12/11/2008, -0/+7Murdats:
I can't think of anything else in the US that works that way.
There are old consumer protection laws which state that if a company sends you something in the mail that you did not request, it's considered a gift. The company cannot demand that you return it, and they cannot bill you for it later. This law was put into place to prevent companies from mailing you things you didn't want and billing you--something which would almost certainly be considered a scam today.
The real difference, of course, is that the phone company has no idea whether or not you agreed to receive the incoming calls/texts. With landline phones, it works as it should--i.e. you only get charged for calls you make (and here, most local calls are free, anyway.) I really don't know why it's different for cell phones, other than extreme greed. - sancho, on 12/11/2008, -0/+7In the US, are there any carriers which DON'T charge you for incoming texts (if you don't have a plan)?
- BradOFarrell, on 12/11/2008, -2/+9Um, you've been able to use AIM on GMail, which allows you to enter phone numbers as IM screen names, to send SMSes. This isn't even a new feature.
- neo991lb, on 12/11/2008, -1/+7To the people crowing about the feature already being in AIM: ***** you.
AIM was released in 1997, before Google was even a company. Oh, and Google talk is a 1.5 mb download as opposed to AIM 6.8's* size of 12.8 megs. I never have problems sending files or voice chatting in GTalk; the same cannot be said for AIM. I can finally ditch AIM and never use it again now that SMS messaging has been added to GTalk.
*I don't use AIM, I use Pidgin but most of the idiots I talk to on AIM use Triton or 6.8. - BoneStamp, on 12/11/2008, -0/+6Yes, every search for a gmail push comes up with that solution. But that's not push email, that's me getting a text when I have a new email.
- natenovs, on 12/11/2008, -0/+6and msn messenger
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