Of course I love this headline: "Samsung Unveils Unprecedented Line Up of Wireless Phones for U.S. Consumers. More Breathtaking Product Designs and Capabilities in Store for 2005." Sounds like some breathless marketing speak, but check out the list:
  • The world's first speech-to-text dictation phone, allowing consumers to speak their message and have the phone convert the words to text.
  • The U.S.'s first multi-mega pixel camera phone line up, including a two mega pixel and a five mega pixel camera with 3X optical zoom capabilities.
  • The U.S.'s first two mega pixel camera phone with QVGA screen resolution and TF-R external memory card, which allows for extensive video clip recording space and crisp, vibrant viewing of pictures and video taken with the phone.
  • The U.S.'s first line up of phones to operate on the next-generation high-speed wireless networks known as EVDO, allowing consumers to send and receive pictures, video and data at speeds comparable to cable modem or DSL connectivity.
  • Video-on-demand (VOD) devices that allow consumers to wirelessly stream videos onto the handset from the network or download and store the videos on the handset for convenient playback.
  • Music-on-demand (MOD) devices that give consumers instant access to digital music, allowing them to download or stream popular tunes directly to their handset.
  • Phones with Bluetooth wireless connectivity capabilities that will make transferring pictures, music and data files from computers to wireless devices quick and seamless.
  • Phones with integrated Wi-Fi technology allowing users to roam onto corporate networks from their wireless device while away from the office, at the airport, cafe or hotel.
  • Phones with integrated BlackBerry push-email capabilities that allow consumers and business users to send and receive emails from anywhere.
Damn. I'd say that qualifies as "unprecedented". Speech to text? I hadn't even thought of that. I'm skeptical it would work very well, but it wouldn't even have to be that great to solve a bunch of problems with mobile phones as computer platform. And 5 megapixel camera phone with 3x zoom??? OMFG! I wasn't joking last week when I said Samsung is kicking ass.
- jim 1-05-2005 10:03 pm

Okay, yeah, the speech to text is very limited:

QuickPhrase lets users address a message and activate one of several pre-programmed short messages such as "Call me" or "Will call you later" by speaking those words, subsequent to which the text is included in the message.
(More details on all the Samsung phones at that link as well.)

- jim 1-06-2005 7:25 pm





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