Google Voice

I have been searching around for a new mobile phone and finally made my decision.  I decided on the Motorola Droid Razr M.  The biggest reason has nothing to do with the phone but I wanted to support the engineers that I know from Motorola who work very hard on the hardware design.  The phone is great but in this blog I wanted to review the voice features.  This is very important to me as I am constantly on the road. 

The things that impress me most are the "navigate to" command and the "go to" command.  The "go to" command opens up a webpage based on what you are saying.  If it can't find an exact match it does a google search and gives you the results.  I have found this to be a much better way to navigate web pages than typing in the address.  The "navigate to" feature lets you say a location or an exact address.  The first time I tried it with my home address it worked like a charm.  I was shocked.  This is my first experience with expanded voice features.

The downsides of the voice were the calling and emailing options.  I think this largely has to do with my contacts being in my Good application and not through google.  However, I have not investigated this further.  If I try to call someone it never finds them on my phone and then tries to do a google search for this person.  That rarely ends up succesfull.  For the email options, the message dictation is great, but I can never get it to send to the correct person. 

Overall I am impressed with the voice features that have evolved in the past few years since my last phone.  I hope this trend continues.