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[Florisjuh]

Google has introduced a new way to get a Google Mail account, by SMS! This way they can prevent spammers to register a lot of accounts since the ammount of accounts per phone is limited to 10.

You can currently get Google Mail by sms in the following country's:
* Australia
* Indonesia
* Malaysia
* New Zealand
* The Phillipines
* Singapore
* Thailand
* Turkey
* United States

[SqlByte]

yes i heard abuot.. but that sux becouse its only for those countryes...
google should be worldwide
i hope soon google will do someting with other countries..
i have gmail long time ago but anyway google should include other conutries.

[iwuvcookies]

At first i thought the title suggested that you can call some number provided by gmail to access along with a password and have some Gmail appointed speaker read the email to you. lol. I was wrong obviously. lol. Hopefully Google can look into that if you are indexing pages sometime. lol.

ON the actual topic. ITs cool you can register by phone now. Some people are abusing google gmail and they just might ruin it for others. I don't want it to shut down because people are puttings too many files for storage.

[Florisjuh]

iwuvcookies, on Jan 19 2006, 11:52 PM, said:

At first i thought the title suggested that you can call some number provided by gmail to access along with a password and have some Gmail appointed speaker read the email to you. lol. I was wrong obviously. lol. Hopefully Google can look into that if you are indexing pages sometime. lol.

Heh, sorry for the slightly misleading title.

You can access gmail on a smartphone / pda tho.

[Artanis[sK]]

Just get someone to invite you that has lots of gmail invites.

[Kioku]

Alot of gmail invites, if anyone needs any. Just PM me and I'll invite you. Last I checked, both of my accounts had ~100 or so. It's not like I ever even use them at all.

[psychiccyberfreak]

I saw this, and unfortunatly they don't support verizon yet. It would be nice if I could experience it. Oh well. It's just a way of making me spend money...

[EJay]

That might not be the most securte way to access gmail since cellphone (WAP) is accessable all over the world with the right tools, and thus causing security loopholes that people can jump through.

[ameribass]

Yeah, I heard about this earlier. It's not a bad idea for google. I've had an account with them for a while now, so this new feature doesn't really pertain to me, but to those who don't know anyone that will be willing to send them an invite should be happy that they can finally just sign up themselves, at least for those living in the countries mentioned above. Thanks a lot for the information and see you around in the forums in the near future!