Gmail's SMS service launched for INDIA and more countries.

Short Messaging Service is very great! It is fast, cheap, and convenient. It lets you connect with your friends and family no matter where in the world you are. A few years ago, Google launched its SMS chat service via Gmail, but was limited to very few countries, like USA, UK etc.

Well here's a good news! Google has, very recently, introduced updates to the service. Gmail SMS messaging is now available across a lot more countries and networks, including Asian countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, India etc. You can now send texts to a lot of networks in many countries, absolutely free!

How to use Gmail's SMS service:

• Sign in your Gmail account.
• Add/Edit a Contact and enter the mobile number to contact details section.
• After adding contact number details, hover on any contact person whom you want to text, and choose More --> Send SMS.

• After clicking Send SMS, MSG chat box will pop up, type your text in chat box and press Enter to send your text to particular recipient.

• When you will hit Enter after typing text, then your credit will decrease by 1 for every text you sent. You will receive 5 pt. credit when someone replies your text. You can know more about Gmail's-SMS credits here.
• What if you lose all the credits? Well, you will receive one credit after 24 hours. A smart way to increase your credits would be to send a text to your own mobile phone, and then replying to it any number of times to refill your credits!
• After a moment, your text will be received by recipient and you will get the notification in your chat box as shown below.

•  Learn more about sending SMS through gmail.

This service is new to many countries like in India. Many carriers support this service in India such as Aircel, Loop Mobile, MTS, Reliance, Tata DoCoMo, Tata indicom. More carriers are expected to support this service soon.
Have fun.