A much talked about update to the Gmail interface created quite some buzz on the blogosphere on Wednesday. Google had officially integrated Google Voice into Gmail, allowing users to make phone calls directly from Gmail.
Today, some reports surfaced that international users had also received the voice update to their accounts. Several hours later, the feature was pulled. Clearly, Google accidentally released the voice service to international users.
When contacted, a Google spokesperson had the following to say: “In our excitement to share voice calling, we got a little ahead of ourselves and, unintentionally, made it available for a brief time in some languages we don’t support yet. We’ve rolled back the feature, and apologize for any inconvenience. We launched it yesterday to US users and look forward to bringing localised versions to more people in the future.”
Well, there’s always hope for the future!
via ElectricPig