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I Talk, Vlingo Listens

Posted on June 24, 2008

Vlingo s new software for BlackBerrys (the link goes live at 5 a.m. PT), which gives me the ability to navigate my phone entirely by voice, has me feeling like a kid on Christmas morning. I press a button on my Pearl, wait for a chime, simply say, Web search, weather San Francisco, and the browser opens and delivers me the weather in San Francisco. I can also use it to text and send emails to my contacts, though admittedly without the benefit of typing, punctuation is a problem.As Om has pointed out, voice makes navigating phones easier, but the Vlingo application does eat up bandwidth...

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