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Brandon Miniman
01-13-2008, 05:40 PM
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I recorded this at the Bill Gates keynote on Sunday night at CES. I hadn't heard of TellMe until this demo, and frankly, I was not impressed. It seems to be a Windows Live Search-like application that works via voice to find information like phone numbers and and other info, but then again, WLS already works with voice. I'd rather make a few clicks on the screen to find out simple information instead of shouting at the phone.

Oh, and I love how they run most of the demo on a non Windows Mobile phone.

See also:
TellMe website (http://www.tellme.com/)
Windows Live Search vs. Google Maps Mobile (http://www.pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=reviews&id=1000)

Pony99CA
01-14-2008, 09:02 PM
TellMe has actually been around for a while (since 1999 according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellme_Networks), which is about when I remember it). I don't remember if I ever tried it out, though.

Steve