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Opinions on Smartphones Wanted
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I was concerned about the size of the on-screen keyboard, myself, especially when the new entry turned out not the much-rumored iPhone 5 with the purported 4.3" screen. But, one think I can say for the iPhone 4s and/or iOS 5 (though there are things I do still take issue with) is that its speach-to-text feature is killer. I'm not talking about "Siri", per se (which is over-hyped and definitely NOT all it's cracked up to be, IMO); but they have added a little microphone symbol to the keyboard everywhere it is used. You can simply tap the microphone and speak what you want to type, like old-fashioned dictation. I've found it to be about 95%+ accurate, which was quite a pleasant surprise. It works for emails, text messages, calendar entries, pretty much everywhere you might want to enter text, as far as I can tell. To the point that I hardly ever have to actually type on the keyboard.
Android has had this capability for some time and I believe Windows Phone 7 recently added it.
Yeah, the Android version of speech-to-text is pretty nice. I use it a lot.
Yes, I know. As I mentioned above, I actually had wanted to go with an Android, but the iPhone made more sense for my situation, and I was just glad to find this feature so well executed in the iPhone, especially in light of the smaller screen size. And I was attempting to address comments about phones without physical keyboards.
I wouldn't consider 18 months "old", personally. Though I have no doubt the smartphone makers want people to think that way.
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