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Samsung pulling voice dial??!!
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Posted by: tryn2getaclu

Samsung is making some very cool phones with some really great features. BUT, for some reason, they are taking voice dial out of so many of their newer phones! This makes absolutely no sense to me. With bluetooth, voice dial is practically essential! What is the point of the newer bluetooth technology (cars and headsets) if the user has to scroll through their phonebook to find contacts - so much for handsfree?! For dialing when driving, voice dial is imperative. So, when does an FM radio feature become more worthwhile than the safety factor of voice dial? Given that people WILL use their phones while driving, what possible feature (beyond the obvious cellular transmitter and receiver) could ever be considered more valuable than voice dial? Wait, let me guess, a document viewer? Better texting software? Anti redeye software for the camera? Games????

What possible rationalization could the people at Samsung have for removing voice dial??!!

And, while I am ranting, how could the logic of adding snail mail address fields to the contacts escape the phone designers???!! They think to add the Outlook sync feature but fail to realize that users might actually want to carry ALL of the contact info with them?

I have no need or want for the more comprehensive 'smart' phones that include these fields, and getting a phone with a qwerty keyboard just so I can carry my addresses seems ridiculous! Adding the fields is such a no-brainer!

E.o.R.