How To Send Free SMS From Gmail To Any Number

Did you know that you can now you can send free text messages (SMS) to your friends directly from your Gmail account in India also?In India most of the people send thousands of sms to their friends by spending a lot of money by recharging their sms packs.Now Gmail has introduced free sms service by which you can continue your chat conversation while surfing the internet.
The SMS service is available in India and 51 other countries in Asia, Africa and North America.
The feature was activated for Indian users on October 10 and is available for regular Gmail users as well as those on Google Apps.As per Google's website, this feature is available on all the mobile operators in the country.In order to sms you have to just enter phone number to their contact list.Responses to the SMSs would appear as replies in Gmail Chat and conversations will be stored in users' Chat history, like regular chats.

Limitation

Google initially provides free SMS credit of 50 messages for each user. For every message sent, users' credit would decrease by one. However, this credit would increase by five every time a user responds to the text message by sending a return message.

In case, the SMS credit limit slashes down to zero, one credit would increase automatically after 24 hours.
Also users can also 'buy' SMS credit in case of shortage by sending a text message to their own phone and then by replying to that message.
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Send Free SMS To Any Number Without Any Sign Up Or Registration

How to Start SMS chat?

Go to Gmail.com and sign in.

Now Click on Gmail Chat button placed bottom of the screen as shown in screenshot below.

In the Send SMS box above Chat, enter the phone number you want to send a SMS to.

In the dialog box, enter Contact name of the SMS recipient and check that country and phone number are correct. Then, click Save.

Type your message in the chat window and hit Enter.

Your message will be sent to the phone number you entered.

All done

That was the simple steps to send sms to any number from gmail and you have no need to spend your pricious money on sms packs and reacharges.In case you are facing any difficulties, you are free to ask your queries in comments.Till then peace and blessing.