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Used this a number of times in a pinch. It'll definitely be missed. Makes me want a smartphone a little more.

• cmars232 16y ago
  Same here. Though I much prefer the Star-Trek-like, simple voice interface to interacting with a smartphone. There should be more voice apps like GOOG 411, not less.
  • lukeschlather 16y ago
    Android 2.1 is pretty damn close. 2.2 seemed to be a little worse. Main example: it used to be if you had someone's address in your contacts, you could hold down the search button until the voice search prompt came up, then say "Navigate to <person's name> and it would pull up Google Navigation on that person's address. Around 2.2 Google seems to have removed the ability to search your contacts from Google Maps. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a decision that searching your own contacts won't generate ad revenue. In any case, what happens now is it gives you a popup of search results for that name in your vicinity and asks you to choose, usually there are like 20.
    • nooneelse 16y ago
      Workaround, if you just say their name, it will pull up their contact info and you can tap the address there.
• jrwoodruff 16y ago
  I think that's what it's supposed to do.
• patfla 16y ago
  > Makes me want a smartphone a little more That’s part of the point isn’t it? Google extends the service for free (for a limited time) and people without smartphones grow to like it (glad that 1800FREE411 is still there) and then when the free service is withdrawn that iota more of dump-phone users are more inclined to buy a smartphone. Smartphones may be growing like crazy, but there are still vastly more dumb-phones actually in peoples’ hands. Big market, right?