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Originally Posted by grindMARC
Huh? Its 100% true. Go to a phone store and ask them to show you the voice command feature on the RAZR or SLVR. There is NO training mode. You speak, it repeats back to you what it thinks you said. It will even pronounce awkward last names a pretty accurately. I use it all the time. I can say "Call Knightrider mobile" and it will do just that if there is an address book entry called Knightrider and phone number listed under mobile. You can even send text messages and pictures this way too. Welcome to 2005, man. Tell KITT to time warp you back from the 90s.
I have to footnote this post with the fact that I absolutely hated my RAZR. Battery life was a joke, it crashed all the time, I had to take it back for a replacement phone 3 times in a month. But it (and the SLVR) do the voice commands really well. I'm a huge fan of the SLVR.
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You made my point! You do NOT have to add a name to the address book to call that number with the motorola "M" phone! YOU TRAIN it to recognise your VOICE so you can speak into it and get it to call numbers direct that are NOT in your Address book! The RAZR and other phones will NOT disregard outside noises from background environments if you are in an area where it's not very quiet while trying to talk into it and the "M" phone will! You can program any number into it that you want, but it will also respond if I say "call grindMarc at 555-555-9426" and You DON'T have to be in my address book to do it! THAT is true hands free while driving technology and it works so well because there is no other downloadable ringtone options or cameras or short battery life and there are no downloadable programs to crash. I don't have the SLVR and I'm not saying that they have not added these options. I'm saying they do not work as well as advertised in real life and the "M" does, however, the "M" will cost slose to a new Iphone in price and by the time you add a carry bag, battery choice, privacy handset and the Motorola Phone Tools CD to plug the phone into your computer, set up your options (Fax, selective caller ID, Data Stream, last number redial, sattelite service,etc.) you are close to $900.00!
I also need to add a footnote here that I have to carry a bag around that weighs a few pounds and I miss the little phone I could just drop into my pocket!
However, and dig out your maps for this one, while driving home back to Phoenix Arizona on 93, the Barry Goldwater/ Joshua Tree Memorial highway, I happened on to a serious car crash. We were about 108 miles North of Wickenburg in mountainous terrain where cell service is NOT available. The driver in the oncoming lane failed to negotiate a hairpin turn ( Blasted tourists!) and bounced their car off a marbled canton wall south of Burro Creek and the car was totaled and on fire blocking the highway on the Northwest bound side. No fatalities, but serious injuries and one pasenger was ejected from the vehilcle at 60 MPH through the windshield! (This is what brains and seatbelts are for!) Luckily my 300d has GREAT handling and 4 wheel disc brakes as well as a Motorola "M" phone because I was the only one who had ANY signal strength (65 to 70%) more than 100 miles for any emergency services. Yes, this is still Goldwater Country! We all had phones. I was able to lock on to a Sat-Cell 94 miles away with a 5 foot Omni-Beam Mobile mast and call for rescue even though I subscribe to T-Mobile and the Sat-Cell was a USA-040 in Wickenburg and get emergency medical help out there along with a fire engine to put out the blaze in 113 degree heat before we had a forest fire! Enough of us had ABC fire extiguishers to get it under control while help arrived. I was greatful to be able to get on to a 1900 Mghz service and tag onto an landline from a Satellite dish tower with GSM Mobile at the top of Burro Canyon Pass. But like I said, not everyone will want one!
