Text messaging got a shot in the arm past week. Remember the times when we had to press a number key multiple times to represent a character. This was improvised by the T9 recognition pattern. Now, it’s even better. You just read out your message and the message is typed in your cell phone. Text messaging just got better.
Sprint Nextel corp has launched this service past Friday. The service is not available on all cell phones but only on selected few. You could dictate upto 20 words per minute. A Reuters reporter testing the MobileVoiceControl product on a Sprint Treo 700p smart phone found text responses were 100 percent accurate on 10 e-mails entered by voice, although it took the system an average of 53 seconds to generate each email, with response times ranging from 30 seconds to 2 minutes.
US is way behind in the technology of cell phones when compared to the Asian countries. It is interesting to note that this technology has been introduced in the US prior to the Asian countries. Text messaging is not as popular as it is in the Asian countries. This new develoment in text messaging system could be a fresh start for the boom of texting in the US.
via Yahoo News
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September 4th, 2006 at 6:41 am
We just keep getting lazier and lazier :). Sounds cool though.
July 5th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Man, I came up w/ this idea just two weeks ago & was going to send it to my dad who works for Nextel. Good thing I didn’t send that memo!!
I’ll be happy to use it, though. I text tons every day… it’s my mobile email system, but kind of dangerous when in the car. I’m practicing to be as good as Mat Damon in ‘The Departed’ when he sent an entire text message from his pocket w/out looking!