Available for quite a few S60 3rd Edition and S60 5th Edition phones, Vlingo promises web searching, email, text and Facebook status updates, all with voice-to-text speech recognition. But how well does it work in practice? Not perfectly, it has to be said, but it's close enough to make it worth trying out with your voice and in your own use case. Here's my Vlingo review.
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iono how you got the facebook but on my 5800 and n97 i keep getting search no matter how many times i say it. is it only a plus version feature. anyways theres no way im paying for the app just to subsidize (read free) iphone users. either we all pay or none of us do.
pls any hints regarding status updates the rest of the functionality mostly just seems redundant considering native voice dial and apps launch work fine for me. if nokia just allowed different languages on nam firmwares that would be awesome. right now always torn between euroasian phones for languages and nam phones for 3G. well thats one thing apple understands very well (not all of us living in north america are of english, french, portugese or spanish descent).
In response to previous comment about where is facebook? It is my understanding that the Facebook feature is available ONLY on the N97 Symbian models right now, not 5800, nor other. And even the N97 Facebook feature might only be there once Vlingo is in the firmware bundle the author mentions. My guess is that the author got early visibility to the software version that will arrive in the firmware bundle, and that you'll get access soon.
Regarding free vs. plus for iPhone versus Symbian: I think Vlingo for iPhone has only a free version because there is no way for app developers like Vlingo to offer the Plus features of email and SMS (Apple doesn't allow access to those APIs.) Vlingo free for Nokia should be functionally on par with Vlingo for iPhone, but since Symbian allows access to SMS and EMail APIs Vlingo for Nokia can also offer a Plus version that brings in the SMS and Email features. If Apple were to allow app developers access to SMS and Email on the iPhone, you'd probably see Vlingo offering a Vlingo Plus for iPhone as well.