This time, Google come up with a new and innovative service for mobile phone subscribes. After SMS based search, Google have recently announced the launch of Google SMS Channels, which is a platform to send group SMS free of cost. It can be called the improved version of existing group messaging services like SMSgupshup and Mytoday.

Here comes some of the pros and cons of Google SMS channels:

Pros:

• Unlike other group SMS providers, Google’s SMS channel does not add any advertisements on the message footer, so group publishers get full 160 character messages to post.
• Compared to other group messaging providers, Google gets its message published faster and FREE.
• Supports Blogger blogs, Google groups, Google Alerts, RSS feed URL and custom messages.
• For subscriber point of view, option to set the maximum number of Incoming messages.

Cons:

• After working hard I was able to find only 1 disadvantage in Google SMS channels, unlike SMSgupshup a group owner cannot add subscribers to his/her channel unless the mobile owner does it of his own, in other words it does not have the option to add mobile numbers from the channels. But from the subscribers point of view this is an advantage as well.

Google SMS channel for Devilsworkshop:

We have created a channel to keep you informed via SMS. To Join,

• Either Subscribe here.
• Or send an SMS: ‘ON DEVILSWORKSHOP’ to 09870807070

We also created a dedicated channel for our Orkut users…

• Either Subscribe here.
• Or send an SMS: ‘ON ORKUTBLOG’ to 09870807070

This innovative initiative by Google deserves Thumbs Up from all mobile users in India, even I personally feel this bandwagon from Google deserves 4.5 stars out of 5. What do you say?

Links: Google SMS channels (FAQ)

(via: Labnol)

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