Vlingo’s app for BlackBerry allows users to control their smartphones with nothing but voice
By Dusan Belic on Sunday, July 6th, 2008 at 10:14 AM PST In Applications, RIM (Research in Motion)
Vlingo recently released a new application for BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) smartphones, allowing users to control their devices using nothing but their voice. Available as a free download, vlingo’s BlackBerry app lets users do such things using their voice as:
- Voice Dial – initiate calls to anyone from address book.
- Text Message – send text messages without typing.
- Email – start an email and speak the message on-the-go.
- Applications – open calendar, maps, and other apps.
- Address Book – search for contacts without typing.
- Web search – look up anything online in one step.
- Note2Self – send yourself a reminder in the form of an email, task or text message.
Vlingo currently works on the BlackBerry Pearl, BlackBerry Curve and BlackBerry 8800 series smartphones and is available for download from here.

