Google cool tool
Have you heard the latest news about Google Mobile latest cool feature? Well, I’m not talking about Google Latitude, an application that can show you friends near your position. Though cool and have much revenue potential, it will take several iterations for the application to know which of my friends I’m interested to share with my location and equally important – when! Perhaps some integration with the phone’s call log can help show people the user’s interested in keeping in touch with.
Still, I think an even more important, and immediate, feature is coming from Google Mobile. Android voice search is a way for you to search from Android by voice. Finally! Let’s face it. You can have the latest, coolest, feature-packed , girls will fall at its sight, man will envy you smart-phone (BTW, it’s time to come up with a better name). However, it will be pretty useless if you can’t easily activate it. And what easier way do you have to activate your phone than your own voice? I know, I know. Gestures, stylus, customized buttons and QWERTY keyboard are nice and help using the applications. However, in many cases that’s still not comfortable. With voice search you can literally tell the search widget your query.
How great is that? The trouble with many mobile apps is that they’re trying to mimic desktop application by squeezing user interface to ~3 inches (and that’s usually with smart phone). Using voice should be the first choice for any mobile application. Now, let’s consider the possibilities. Hopefully, as voice-recognition technology becomes better and available for non-English languages, we could see more voice-activated applications on mobile phones.