I saw this in my rss reader the other day but only got around to trying this today and once again google comes through BIG TIME!

Google have made my tablet even more useful by adding send SMS to gchat which routes chat into a sms message to a mobile phone. We already have the great Grand central dialer, if you are lucky enough to have a grand central account you can make FREE calls to the US and Canada, and now with google SMS you can make and receive FREE sms messages through the chat program.

Google give you a free 406 number which ties into your Gmail ID and people can sms you at that number which shows up in your gchat client. If you aren't online it goes to your chat archive in your google account. What would be absolutely great is if you could tie that 406 number to the grandcentral account...

Anyway I am babbling now but if you haven't check it out its going to be a pretty neat solution for tablets (especially wimax tablets or RX-51!) I'm going to start switching over to using this so I can go all-IP as soon as the new tablet launches. Now for google video chat

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/1...-sms-text.html