Vlingo adds voice control to older iPhones

Filed under: iPhone , App Review Pity the poor iPhone 3G owner who now has to grapple with reality; yes, what was until Friday the world’s coolest smartphone is now simply a piece of yesterday’s tech, as current as a punchcard and as enduring as a wax cylinder recording on a hot afternoon. No, not really — the iPhone 3G is just as cool as it was a week ago, and for $99 it’s a relative bargain. Still, there’s some envy on the wind. Some of our readers have apparently been so dazzled by Apple’s enthusiastic promotion of the new iPhone 3G S that they were fooled into believing that the hardware-linked features of the 3G S (the compass and the voice controls, specifically) would be made available on the 3G with the delivery of the 3.0 software update. They have written to us, irate and frustrated, wanting to know what happened to their promised features. We sympathize, and we want to help. There is, as it happens, a way to get one of the marquee features of the 3G S — voice control — onto your iPhone 3G or original iPhone. The vlingo app, available free in the App Store since December of last year and also available for Blackberry & Windows Mobile, gives you voice command dialing from your address book, map search, Yahoo web searches, Twitter/Facebook updating, and more
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