Has anyone found a way or App that will allow you to voice dial using a bluetooth headset. This is a basic bluetooth task yet the highly technical Droid doesn't come from Motorola with this simple function.
I think it is a limitation of Android in general and not any specific android phone.
It is a feature that really should have been implemented quite a while ago.
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There is an obvious problem here. Someone dropped the ball, and I think we all will suffer for it. SIMPLE, BASIC, functon, NOT on the Droid. Bullshit, with voice dialer etc. I should be able to call any number in my contacts lis w/o touching my damn phone. Why are all these people sugesting long press on green button etc???? That's crap. HANDSFREE!!! Less distraction while driving, Convenient when cooking, cleaning, whatever?? Come on Motorola...Thats like no ABS on ur car.....
Contrary to your belief, bluetooth voice dialing has been a solved problem for over a decade. Some of my engineers worked on the early bluetooth specs and that was a significant part of the standard. Motorola owns the code for one of the solutions that was found in all their early bluetooth enabled handsets. Unfortunately, Google decided to re-invent the wheel. When you do voice dialing on an Android phone it sends it out to the cloud for a google-hosted application to parse and then sends the results back to the phone. The application code for this doesn't support the bluetooth standard. In fact the entire bluetooth standard is poorly support in the OS. There is no excuse for not supporting voice dialing via bluetooth, except technical incompetence or a "not invented here" mentality by the engineers that worked on this part of the OS.whoa dude(s), like chill man... 1st post and you're very demanding and out of line. both of you.....
BT voice dialing isn't basic nor is it simple. BT in my opinion is the devils breakfast, I've always hated how it is licensed. I have an old device that never figured out proper ADP2 however voice dialing works on it. Now I have the opposite problem. But I can wait for a fix, BT has always been a nightmare beyond the true basics.
I can tell you are young; ABS is not a deal breaker either. I race cars on the weekend, ABS along with traction control gets turned off before I even think about winning a race. And I would never consider using a phone of course and have no desire to be making calls on the drive home. I don't suffer in the least for lack of voice dialing.
whoa dude(s), like chill man... 1st post and you're very demanding and out of line. both of you.....
BT voice dialing isn't basic nor is it simple. BT in my opinion is the devils breakfast, I've always hated how it is licensed. I have an old device that never figured out proper ADP2 however voice dialing works on it. Now I have the opposite problem. But I can wait for a fix, BT has always been a nightmare beyond the true basics.
I can tell you are young; ABS is not a deal breaker either. I race cars on the weekend, ABS along with traction control gets turned off before I even think about winning a race. And I would never consider using a phone of course and have no desire to be making calls on the drive home. I don't suffer in the least for lack of voice dialing.
Well I'm out of this thread because I don't care enough about voice dialing or to argue about it. And no, I don't talk on the phone while driving, never did, never will. And for the few seconds between meetings I don't need the phone either or at least don't whine if it doesn't work like in the movies. yawn
You do know what they call people who use the words never and always?
no, what do the hillbilly lawyers call it? That's rhetorical, I don't care to know. But if the fine print must be analyzed, I do have a headset and also a stereo headphone. I tap the button and there's my call. But I don't *ever* make calls while driving and so far only took one inbound call while in the car. So whatever technicality that is, well, yawn.
As for ABS, you're out to lunch. I can stop shorter without ABS than you can with it. Not opinion, simple physics and the training to do it. Not at all like BT's deficiencies but a car analogy is always popular. or so I thought.
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