GGoogle chat vs Skype

[Darlene Wallach]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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.

Google will start charging for using "Call Phone."

Darlene Wallach

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