{"id":14866,"date":"2010-08-26T13:32:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T08:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=14866"},"modified":"2020-05-01T12:33:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T07:03:12","slug":"gmail-free-phone-calls-to-us-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2010\/08\/gmail-free-phone-calls-to-us-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Gmail for Free Phone Calls to US and Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now you can use Gmail for <strong>free phone calls to US and Canada<\/strong>.\u00a0Earlier you could use the\u00a0Gmail voice and video chat feature\u00a0but that required both people to be at their computers, signed into Gmail at the same time. Now\u00a0you can call any phone right from Gmail!<\/p>\n<p>Then&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"Gmail voice and video chat\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JFGJRfoK9xQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>and now&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"Call phones from Gmail\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_-DzpAg0SdU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>Gmail Phone Call Rates<\/h3>\n<p>Google promises calls to the U.S. and Canada will be\u00a0free\u00a0for at least the rest of the year and calls to other countries will be billed at very\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/voice\/rates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">low call rates<\/a>, when\u00a0compared to local operators \u2014for as little as $0.02 per minute.<\/p>\n<h3>Get started with Gmail Phone Calls<\/h3>\n<p>The feature is rolling out to U.S. based Gmail users over the next few days. When active, you will see the &#8220;Call Phone&#8221; link in Gmail Chat.\u00a0Just click \u201cCall phone\u201d at the top of your chat list and dial a number or enter a contact\u2019s name. Remember you need to install the\u00a0voice and video plug-in to get this to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now you can use Gmail for free phone calls to US and Canada.\u00a0Earlier you could use the\u00a0Gmail voice and video&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}