Google launches voice and video chat for gmail

You love gmail. Don’t you. Having so much cool features within one application is great. Now you will love it even more. Today Google is launching voice and video chat within gmail. You will now be able to talk with your friends or video chat right from gmail chat window.

Remember earlier times when you used to have one application for mail, another IM if you want to chat and even another application if you want voice or video chat. Now all of these are under a single umbrella gmail. And the best part : ITS FREE.

To enable this feature, all you have to do is install a small plugin from http://mail.google.com/videochat ,restart your browser and you are all set.

To make use of voice/video chat feature open the chat window. Now select “Video & more” at the bottom and select “Start voice chat or “Start video chat”. It will prompt other person to accept or reject your call. Once its accepted , chat happily.

Do have a look at this video Gmail voice and video chat.It will be available globally from today onwards.

Google rocks. What do you say?

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