You might be using Gmail voice and video chat to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer’s microphone and speakers but do you know that you can also make Phone Calls from the same.
Calls to the U.S. and Canada are free for all of 2011 and calls to other countries will be billed. You can make calls to the U.K., France, Germany, China, Japan and many other countries for as little as $0.02 per minute. Complete rates are given on the following link – www.google.com/voice/rates .
How To Make Phone Calls From Gmail
1.Sign-in to Gmail
2.Click “Call phone” at the top of your chat list
3.Now, dial a number or enter a contact’s name.
If you have a Google Voice phone number, calls made from Gmail will display your Google Voice phone number as the outbound caller ID. If you want then you can also receive calls made to your Google Voice phone number right inside Gmail.