Someone’s found another iPhone OS 3.0 feature tucked away inside the beta: voice control, so you don’t even have to touch your mobile to call and message contacts. Who needs multitouch when you can use your mouth?
The hidden iPhone OS 3.0 features just keep rolling on. Yesterday it was data detectors, today it’s voice control, according to Ars Technica sources. Dubbed Jibbler, the feature boasts both voice synthesis to read out information and voice recognition so you can chat to an iPhone running iPhone OS 3.0. Although if the latter is anything like Google Voice, don’t expect this last feature to work with a British accent, guvnor.
There are few details on Jibbler just yet, but it’s thought it could be activated by the iPhone headset, and there’s the possibility that third party developers will be able to take advantage of it in the iPhone OS 3.0 SDK.
Of course, voice dialing is old hat, but if true, it’s yet another minor iPhone flaw corrected in iPhone OS 3.0. Is Apple’s trendsetting touchphone nearing perfection with iPhone OS 3.0?
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Out June | £free | Apple (Via Ars Technica) (iPhone available at Apple)
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