Adding SMS (texting) to your Gmail!

Do you want to send SMS (texting) via gmail. Now you can!

go to the "labs" section and enable the following two labs:

SMS in Chat gadget
Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat

Now you should see "Send SMS" as an option on the left under "My Contacts"

Now go to your contacts and add a contact or updated the mobile number of an existing contact and you now should have an option to "send an SMS" under the chat option when you click on your contacts name!

** Note you get a "Bank" balance of 50 SMS messages to start. For every SMS you receive you get 5 additional SMS's to send.

*** Please note this works to phones outside the US also. Put a + in front of the number!