The new version of the Google Mobile app for the iPhone has just been released with the ability to speak your search. The application also takes your currently location into consideration when doing a search.
In my testing this application works very well and quickly over EDGE on an iPhone 2G. Two little niggles that I have with it are that it doesn’t search the address book by voice and that when I searched for “Chinese” I had to click on “Local” before it showed me the restaurants in my area.
Source: Google Mobile App page.
Download: iTunes App Store link.
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I downloaded it last night and searched on my home town. I was impressed it displayed a map of that area above the search results. I’ll have to try it for searching on restaurants when I’m out later on.
Reporting back… didn’t have much luck. Allowed it to use my current location and searched on coffee and it told me no results. Maybe I needed to be more specific to a brand? but shouldn’t have to be.
I think this is a big step forward but they definitely have a long way to go.