Voice-Controlled Apps Being For IPhone By AT&T

According to AppleInsider, this project, based on AT&T's Watson speech recognition engine works by capturing voice commands, sending them to a remote server and then interpreting that command.
Even more exciting is the fact that AT&T demonstrates this technology in a video and the fact that this technology will breed a whole new slew of applications.
Additional details can be found on AppleInsider's website .

Are you hankering for one of those shiny new iPhones?

AP has an interesting article on whether you should buy the iPhone based on the type of person you are.

They’ve broken it out into 9 types of users.

Here’s a quick breakdown on whether you should buy an iPhone based on your usage type.

-- The music listener—Possibly. The big screen will make it easy to navigate a large music collection.

-- The video watcher—Sure, get one. The screen is twice as large as that of the video iPod, and the resolution, at 320 pixels by 480 pixels, is twice as high.

-- The phone chatter—Maybe, but using it mainly as a phone seems like a waste. You can’t type in names to quickly bring up someone from the contact list. Voicemail is listed with the caller’s name or number, sort of like e-mail. In another neat feature, a sensor turns off the screen when you bring the phone to your face.

-- The gamer—No. The iPhone does everything except games. A pity, with that nice big screen.

-- The corporate road warrior—No. For professional use, you’re probably stuck with what the company supports, and for now, that’s going to be BlackBerries and Windows Mobile devices like the Samsung BlackJack.

-- The frugal buyer—No, the first-generation iPhone is likely to be followed by something substantially better, like one that uses a faster cellular broadband network and has more memory. It’s unlikely that the first iPhone will be upgradable, and in any case, it would require a trip back to Apple.

-- The photo buff—Not likely. The iPhone has a 2-megapixel camera, which is decent, and the large screen should make the results easy to appreciate. But phones dedicated to camera buffs also record video and have higher resolutions.

-- The world traveler—Possibly, but it’s not ideal. The iPhone will work overseas, but only at AT&T’s roaming rates.

-- The fashionista—Sure. The iPhone is one of the best-looking phones ever.

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