Gmail now allows for multiple calls at once

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/make-multiple-calls-in-gmail.html

by cleverjake • 15 years ago

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Xlythe2• 15 years ago

Still waiting for them to officially roll internet calling out to Android. There's built in SIP support, but nothing that easily ties in to Google Voice. And there's GrooVe IP, which definitely works well, but it's not native.

They added tethering and apps2sd despite the opposition.

aristidb• 15 years ago

I think there's a Google Voice app. Can't use it myself though, wrong country.

peregrine• 15 years ago

It doesn't do SIP calls it just forwards through your own phone. So you still use your minutes...

cleverjake• 15 years ago

there is, but it doesnt use voip. it sends a request for a callback from a random google owned number, then once you answer, it connects you to the number your calling over normal POTS.

w1ntermute3• 15 years ago

> Still waiting for them to officially roll internet calling out to Android.

> They added tethering and apps2sd despite the opposition.

And just like with tethering, the carriers (in America, at any rate) will remove the app and charge an extra fee for it. I suppose it would be a boon for the rest of the world, though.

eli2• 15 years ago

Tethering is free on T-Mobile

aphexairlines2• 15 years ago

Only if you buy your phone at a massive discount from the carrier.

aphexairlines2• 15 years ago

What's wrong with GrooVe IP not being native? It's about the price of one month of SkypeOut in the US.

angryasian2• 15 years ago

Groove IP is excellent, only drawback is you can't have your gmail client open.

Xlythe2• 15 years ago

The OS constantly nags you if you're without a SIM card. You're either reminded you have no signal or you're reminded you're in airplane mode (The signal icon on the notification bar becomes useless. There are messages in the notification dropdown and on the lockscreen.)

If WiFi calling were native, support would be built in to turn off these reminders. Connectivity could be displayed where signal is, instead of adding another icon to the notification bar. The app could be moved to the system partition (Coming from a Nexus One, app space was hard to come by. GrooVe IP hates being a system app and you can't move it to the SD card w/o it not starting at startup).

I've bought GrooVe IP, I just feel like a native approach could work better.

foob2• 15 years ago

Along the same lines, I wish they would integrate the video chat that they have in Gmail. I have a camera on the front of my phone that I have no use for because the only thing that anybody I know uses for video chatting is Gchat. I wonder how explicit the pressure from the carriers is to leave out this functionality.

abraham2• 15 years ago

This is available in Android 2.3.4+

MikeCapone2• 15 years ago

I wish they would make a standalone GTalk app with this feature for Mac so that I could more easily use it to replace skype.

angryasian2• 15 years ago

I don't mind going to a website, just wish it wasn't my email. Would prefer making the calls right from google voice as thats the most likely page I'm on when I'm checking voice mail or texts.

MikeCapone2• 15 years ago

I'm in Canada, so I don't have access to Google Voice, unfortunately.

foob2• 15 years ago

I kind of like it being in Gmail because I always have that tab open no matter what. I agree that a deeper integration with Google Voice would make a lot of sense though. I've never understood why SMS messages that you send from Google Chat can't come from your Google Voice number. It comes from your Google Voice number when you make a call so it seems strange to me that your texts come from some other number that they assign to you.

mhp• 15 years ago

Conference calling yet? I guess not yet, but this is a good start.

ConstantineXVI• 15 years ago

Google Voice does conference calling[1], I'd hope you can invoke it in the same way from Gmail if they call your GVoice number.

[1] http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

makthrow• 15 years ago

Is this the Google Voice plugin for Gmail that we're talking about here?

tomsaffell• 15 years ago

Technically, no, it's not part of Google Voice. Google Voice is a phone forwarding / management system. GTalk is a component of gmail that allows calls to be made / received. Either can be used w/o the other. However, they do integrate nicely - that's what I use, and I like it a lot.

ck2• 15 years ago

So not allowed to bridge the two for 3-way conference call?

Gmail now allows for multiple calls at once

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