Monday, November 17, 2008

Google Mobile App for iPhone Now with Voice Search - DOPE!


This is definitely one of the coolest iPhone Apps that I've seen to date.  Although the Google Mobile App has been available since the inception of the App Store, it will be receiving a nice facelift in the next few days with the addition of voice recognition based search.   Voice recognition on cellphones has been available for awhile but most programs have sucked to date and they definitely didn't let you search the internet. 

If this ends up working even half as good as they show in this video tutorial, then I will be using this every day.  I have the Google App now but I barely use it since I tend to just go right to Safari to type in a search or access Google Reader.  As much as I love my iPhone, I wish there was a quicker way to search for things on the web though and this might fit the bill.  This will probably save a ton of time by not having to type out the search.  I know that sounds lazy but I have some big thumbs and I always tend to misspell words using the touch screen keypad.  Half the time I don't even realize I made an error until I have already done the search and then I have to start over.  It's not the worst thing in the world but it's still annoying.  Any shortcut I can take throughout the day to make my life easier will always be useful.

It sounds like Apple dropped the ball on release of this super cool App though.  Google did a lot of press and promotion of it at the end of last week because they thought it was supposed to be available in the App store on Friday.  Now we are hearing that today is the day it will be released but I still haven't seen it in the available.  I've checked a few times and don't see the new feature available yet.  Weak ish Apple!  You are missing out on a big opportunity and the potential to increase iPhone sales since this App will be in very high demand and could cause a lot of people to finally switch over from a Blackberry or other competitors.  Get after it, suckas!

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