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15 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Vlingo for Android updated to include ‘SuperDialer’ — Super, indeed!

Vlingo has updated its popular Android application, and a new feature called SuperDialer makes a great app even better.  What SuperDialer does is allow you to make calls, or searches, or get directions based on what you are looking for, not what’s…

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21 April 2010 ~ Comments Off

Control apps by voice? Ford does (or will in 2011)

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Welcome to the future, citizen (pro tip: pass on the soylent green).  Ford recently announced that it’s 2011 Fiesta will launch with SYNC AppLink. I’m just going to let you read it in their own words here -

Ford will first offer SYNC® AppLink, a downloadable software program, on the 2011 Fiesta, allowing owners to access and control Android™ and BlackBerry® smartphone apps with voice commands and vehicle controls

Voice control your apps via bluetooth.  BOO-YAH. 

Pandora, Stitcher and OpenBeak are the first SYNC-enabled apps, but Ford has already set up a developers site (SYNCmyride) so it looks like they mean business.  Now who will be the first to develop a dialer app to fill that painful gap for lucky Ford drivers?

Follow the break for the full presser. [via PR Newswire]
 

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