GGoogle chat vs Skype

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue Sep 27 20:19:41 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 10:33 -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> In regards to "Call Phone" on gmail ...
> 
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 07:41 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >> Timothy Murphy writes:
> >>
> >> > Pardon my ignorance, but how does one use Google Chat?
> >> >
> >> > I've downloaded google-talkplugin_current_i386.rpm
> >> > from <http://www.google.com/chat/video>,
> >> > and installed it with "sudo yum localinstall".
> >> >
> >> > Now what ...?
> >>
> >> Log into your Gmail account. Send an invite to a contact. Wait for them to
> >> accept, now you can talk with each other.
> >
> > That is not what I do. You go to your gmaail account nad you will see on
> > the left side an item:
> > Call Phone
> >
> > You click on that and a telphone dial will appear on the screen which I
> > use to dial the number I want to call.
> 
> The good news about "Call Phone" is it is free to call US and Canada
> thru the end of 2011.
> 
What is going to happen after that, or don't we know.

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