With this update Google has eliminated the Android platform market for Vlingo, Vlingo sells for $9.99 on the Android Market a pretty good app actually but essentially its capability is now a standard Android feature. Is this going to be a trend? Will Google adopt popular features that expand Android into its general product offering? As a consumer I'd love that but looking at it from a developer point of view it would scare the heck out of me.
New features include:
- send text to [contact] [message]
- listen to [artist/song/album]
- call [business]
- send email to [contact] [message]
- go to [website]
- note to self [note]
Full feature listing is here on the Google Mobile blog.
As of right now if you are using CyanogenMod on your Android phone, you will have to do a little hackery to get this to work due to an apk signature issue that is being addressed. The walk through on how to it go work is here at the Cyanogen Forum.
Update: CyanogenMod 6 has updated to Release Candidate 3. This includes the new voice features. Get it here
Links in post:
- Vlingo Homepage at http://www.vlingo.com/
- Google Mobile Blog post on new VoiceSearch at http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/08/just-speak-it-introducing-voice-actions.html
- CyanogenMod Forum fix to install on modified phones at http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/4237-new-voice-search/
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