On 08 Aug 2010 11:26:45 GMT, Han wrote:

Metspitzer wrote in
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I would post this to a cell phone Usenet group, but I don't know of an
active one. If anyone knows of one, I would appreciate the name of
the newsgroup.

My cell phone has a feature that you can speak the name and it will
call the number. The only problem is that my phone must not
understand hillbilly.

I had about 20 numbers in my phone from people I occasionally call.
Half of the time I could not get the phone to understand me. Because
I only use reading glasses, and don't have them on most of the time,
it would be nice to be able to just speak the number instead of having
to put on my glasses to see. I wanted this to work badly enough that
I deleted all but 8 phone numbers from my contacts and it still
doesn't work right.

A friend and I walk 3 miles almost every evening, and we call each
other to make sure we both are going. I had his name in my phone
directory as Dan. I would say........Dan, and the phone would
ask.......Did you say Pam? No, I didn't say Pam. Well it couldn't
get it. I ended up changing his name to Mike so it would not try to
call my sister. It still misses it half of the time. It does pretty
good if I am still in my car, and have the radio off, but if I am
outside walking, it misses it half of the time.

You would think if they were going to use VR they would at least let
you record your own voice pronunciation with the entry.

It would also be nice if would just start calling out numbers in your
directory. You could have a skip 5 command or a skip 10. Back 1.

After it fails to look up the number you have to press another button
on the phone to try again. You need a "try again" VR command too.

BTW I have a M320 Sprint phone.

I never wore glasses until 45 or so when my arms were getting too short
grin. After wearing reading glasses for a while, my eyes got also a
bit worse for real distance and got some astigmatism. I went for real
prescription glasses with graduated focus. As explained to me, you
either get used to them in about 10 days, or not. Just try real hard.
I did and after about a week of annoying vision, it "clicked", and I
haven't looked back. I like humongous glasses, and nowadays they're not
so easy to get, but I like preipheral vision. For the relatively low
degree of correction, I don't want contacts. Maybe I would have at 30 or
35, but not now.

I didn't need glasses until I was 54 and it was a *quick* progression from
cheaters to prescription bifocals. I needed bifocals for computer screens (so
have the biggest lenses I can get). I don't want graduated focus because the
screen is pretty much equidistant from my eyes and the keyboard is also, more
or less. The bottom glass is also good for reading books. I can still get by
without correction for distance, but I too have picked up an astigmatism, so
that won't be long. The only problem I have with driving is that the
instruments are too close. ;-)

I have never used the VR on my iPhone, because I'm too cheap to pay extra
for it grin.

I'm far too cheap to own an iPhone.