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Google Bringing Voice Search To iPhone
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What are your sources?
I just did a search of the news and I did not see such a rumor anywhere. Please post a link. Thank you.
Well, the best thing about this article is that now I know the voice-recognition search is part of the Google Mobile app, which I deleleted off my iPhone because I thought it was a little redundant given the Google search bar in Safari. I got it back on my iPhone now and I'm waiting for the approval process.
Typical low-rent journalism. If you've go no facts, just pad the story out with guesswork
Just imagine the bad PR Apple would get if they indeed did reject this app. This would greatly benefit Google since the biggest advantage of Android is that it doesn't discriminate what app is placed on it. They would likely use this as an advertisement.
where is this app?
Where is this app? I cannot find it. All that is there is Google Earth, Google.
Where is this app? I cannot find it. All that is there is Google Earth, Google.
My friend has a "hacked" iPhone and on his phone you can copy and paste. My question is, if some random hacker can do it that fast, why hasn't Apple done it yet? And the same thing with flash? Maybe google can just do all the work apple doesn't feel like doing for them. So your basically telling me my phone can practically think for itself but it can't figure out how to go to landscape mode in emails and text?
Hey at least all this complaining has me not thinking about the monthly whooping my wallet takes now a days
The thing is, apple can do it. They just dont want to. If apple was a magic show, think of it this way. They have showed us some tricks so far and we are impressed. However. If they show all their tricks to us really fast, their show would be over. They need to keep some of these tricks up their sleeve so they can give them to us at another time. I.e - when the third gen iphone is released.
I can do magic with my iphone too. I can set safari to disappear with a couple of taps without pressing the home button. I hope that the next safari codenamed emoji can correct that's tricks too
That's cute. Yeah, I hope Apple puts those darned lazy Emoji to work and make them help us with those Sarafi crashes.
And is this how voice dialing and voice localization is going to implemented on the iPhone? By Google instead of Apple? That's kind of sad. But I applaud Google for doing more for us than Apple is doing.
Happy the iPhone came before their own G1!
This cements the iPhone as the #1 phone in the world.
Even with other phones doing more than the iPhone, the App Store and all the hundreds of accessories out there make it the phone to have... Awesome!
This cements the iPhone as the #1 phone in the world.
Even with other phones doing more than the iPhone, the App Store and all the hundreds of accessories out there make it the phone to have... Awesome! 
Same thing in downtown Vancouver (Canada).That really doesn't apply here in NYC. Just walk 1-2 blocks, you'll hit one no matter where you are.
This thing reminds me of the scene in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home with Scotty trying to talk to the mac plus. "Hello computer".
You do realize that some Blackberries have had a beta of the Google Voice Search since July...
...though I don't have a BlackBerry. I have an iPhone.
My neighbor has a Ferrari with a 4.3 L V8.
So.
What's your logic?
OP commented that iPhone got app before gPhone, and therefore must be better in some way. By that logic, what does it mean that a Blackberry got it before the iPhone?
would be funny if the delay caused by "excessive date usage"
Ha! Right, no voice searches allowed if speaking states with long names like Mississippi
Some of these bloggers are just utterly ridicilous, by the way you're writing you would think the world has ended because of this useless app. Wow I can speak into my phone instead of typing the word out when I want to search. Google said we should expect the app by at least Friday, even though that's not a definite date and now it's Apple's fault that there app is not there. The world has ended. Kids are dying around the world from hunger and people are crying over a phone app.
What has Google done for the iphone?
You're joking, right?
1) Google offers me a free way of syncing my calendar regardless where I am. I don't know if MobileMe can do this, but I'm certainly not paying money for something I can get for free from Google.
2) Google offers me the free ability to access and view my documents regardless where I am. Ditto from above.
3) Google developed and implemented the primary navigation service that is used on the iPhone - Google Maps.
4) Google owns and runs YouTube which allows me to view videos easily. Last I checked, Safari, which was developed by Apple, cannot access Youtube files directly.
5) And pretty soon, we will be able to locate places on Google Maps and call people from our iPhones using only our voice commands. This is an ability that should have come natively on the iPhone.
6) Google has allowed me to have mail on my iPhone via gmail. I had Hotmail before, but Apple could not make a work-around for me. And a work-around was very possible. If mBoxMail had wrote an easy work-around to access Hotmail, why couldn't Apple? You could blame it on Microsoft, but mBoxMail offers a product that Apple (which, ironically, is making a good profit off of) could have developed and offered for free.
I cannot imagine my iPhone without these services.