Gmail has revealed that they have added an SMS feature to their chat feature. I find this incredibly useful as I sometimes text people from my email address, and this would be much easier than composing a new email for every reply. It sounds like it will be intuitive,

Turning the option on in your Gmail account settings apparently enables you to send an SMS as soon as you start typing a phone number into Chat’s search box. When you enter new phone numbers, it will save the digits in your contact entries as well. This means that when contacts go offline, the chat window will give you the option to switch to SMS.

It comes with the caveat that the receiver of the messages might be charged text fees, so please be aware of that and SMS accordingly.

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