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Are they coming out with an iPhone version anytime soon? This seems useful.

• mlinsey 15y ago
  Hopefully they figure out something that works on the iPhone. It can't work exactly like Sonalight on Android works, because the iPhone doesn't yet support launching a third party app based on just a voice command. (Even Siri, a native app, requires you to hold down a button to activate). Sonalight works just by having you just start talking even if the phone is in your pocket.
  • rgrieselhuber 15y ago
    It seems like launching the app with a button push on iOS would be a good enough trade-off to get the benefits of the rest of the app. The iOS market for this is going to be huge and someone is going to do it eventually regardless of whether you need to push a button.
    • earbitscom 15y ago
      Or just turn it on before you drive.
    • rdl 15y ago
      My car has a steering wheel push button to do make a call; I should test how it works with an iPhone 4s and Siri. I wonder if a bluetooth 4.0 low energy steering wheel slipcover would make sense. You could have a bunch of buttons to do chorded input. The main problem I have now is that my iPhone locks after a few minutes, even in the dock. I want my phone to remain unlocked while in the car, since entering a long pass phrase on the screen is quite unsafe.
    • mlinsey 15y ago
      Yep. The Sonalight founders are seriously awesome so I'm confident they'll figure something out on iOS and kill it - I'm just speculating as to why they've been focusing on Android up until now. Controlling the whole app without touching your phone makes for an awesome demo.