{"id":6041,"date":"2012-04-11T10:26:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T17:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=6041"},"modified":"2012-04-11T10:27:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T17:27:15","slug":"new-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=6041","title":{"rendered":"New Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things change.\u00a0 This little change will have big repercussions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a remarkable coincidence my old iPhone was dying and going out of contract at the same time.\u00a0 So I took the easiest path and stopped by the AT&T store nearby and bought the new iPhone 4S.\u00a0 I was able to transfer my information and upgrade my apps with no difficulty and for a few weeks I really didn’t use the new phone any differently.<\/p>\n

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“Oh what a tangled web”<\/em><\/p>\n

But I had SERI in my pocket and I saw the little microphone at the bottom of the memo and email pages so last week I gave it a try.\u00a0 Conclusion: The new transcription program built into the 4S is incredibly good.<\/p>\n

I have been trying to be able to dictate into a machine and have it type a transcript for more than a decade and all of the programs I ever tried were crap.\u00a0 Now here on my phone is one that works. It means less typing and faster communications.\u00a0 It also means more messages sent in haste without reflection.\u00a0 Isn’t technology grand.<\/p>\n

Walter Mossberg wrote about it today in his Wall Street Journal article.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303772904577335792574509780.html?KEYWORDS=mossberg<\/a><\/p>\n

The WSJ is difficult to read if your not a subscriber.\u00a0 So try both links or do a Google search\u00a0 if you’re interested.<\/p>\n

More importantly see if your phone has speech transcription technology and give it a try.\u00a0 This btw is another argument for Starbucks to get together with Apple and\/or Android and bring the Genius Bar to the Coffee Bar<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 To make this kind of change people are going to need a little hands on instruction.<\/p>\n

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