Recognizing Differences

I’ve made a new committment…I’ve bought a smartphone. Mind you I’m also an iTouch and iPad carrier too. However, I’m a Verizon subscriber and for now, I’m staying with that carrier. Thus, I recently took advantage of an upgrade with my contract and chose the LG Ally and I am impressed.

As a smartphone, the Ally has many of the same features as many such as a touchscreen interface with a slider keyboard, access to the Droid operating system of Apps, a nice camera a video recorder, and a 4 gb removable memory card. But what I find impressive is the speech recognition quality. Without even training my voice, this phone was able to understand my commands for a Google web search, a text message and a map destination. For me that is a wonderful design and saves my normal sized hands and fingers from trying to adapt a keyboarding style to a minature keyboard….let alone trying to thumb type! I also like the fact that this phone has raised keys on the keyboard so they serve as good tactile orientation points for anyone needing that assistance. Hats off to LG — life is good!