Sunday, August 12, 2012

Google Chat Texting

Post by Kevin

Aug 12, 2012

Ok everyone, here's how you can send a text to us using Google Chat. It's free for you and it is cheaper for us to text you back on Google than texting your phone.

  • You have to have a Google account to start with, so if you don't have one, get one and sign in.
  • Put Lara and me in your Google contact list so you are able to start a chat with us.
  • Initiate a chat with one of us.
  • In the chat window, click "More"
  • Click "Labs"
  • Click "Enable SMS"
  • Add Lara and my phone numbers to the list (+23279404457 for Kevin, Lara's number ends with 458)
  • Now when you send a chat to one of us, we will get it as a text on our phone!  When we text you back it's to a local number so it only costs us 2 credits, as opposed to 8 for international texts. If you're not there when we respond, it'll send to your email.

3 comments:

  1. This is not true!

    I have a Google+ account, and I have added you both to circles, but I think you have to add me. The only person that I can chat with is Eric and he is the only person that has added me to a circle. I don't know if this assumption makes sense, but I can't figure out any other way for this to work.

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  2. hmmm making this happen. Will investigate with my droid and report back.

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  3. Liz, try getting in contact with Keith about this. I think he's done it. I don't know though. Best of luck!

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