[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Google Now is more like Siri every day!

Man, it is late and I want nothing more now then to finish watching Steven King, "The Stand". But I just had to go to the store for a minute. And I am more and more surprised and amazed at what Google Now Voice can do. Big deal, talk to the phone and it will do something for you. So what. You can get it done a lot faster if you just tap the screen. Agreed.

But here is where Google Now really shines. I went ahead and bought the hands free Bluetooth car adapter and man, does this thing ever work! I am driving, I say "Okay Google" and follow it up with "play music the bangles", and it begins playing The Bangles out of my 8,000+ songs in Google Play Music. I can just as easily say play Pandora, play Slacker, or whatever. I ask for navigation, the music mutes to issue the navigation voice prompts and fades back in to music when done. I ask it to remind me to call Paula on Tuesday, it schedules the reminder. I get a call and it answers for me, hands free phone in the car audio system. I ask it to call mom home, and it does. Google Now calls my mom at her home number. Every day I discover something new I can command from this phone without ever having to touch it, pick it up, or fumble with it while driving! This is getting like "the Siri or Corana we never got" with our Android devices. I am really, really impressed and I am very sorry to sound like a broken record about this stuff, but how does one contain such amazement? It is a very hard thing to do. And it is all because I finally got "The Right" Bluetooth receiver for the car.

Before this, I used the headphone jack to AUX on my car stereo to talk on the phone and listen to music. Although it worked and worked very well, it was plagued with static, sound and speakers constantly cutting out due to the worn out headphone jack. Now that everything is so clear, I am experimenting with "Our Siri", Google Now Voice and boy oh boy it is not letting me down.

Yeah my phone is broken, I got no LTE or 4G but that does not really affect the phone, it is an irritant like a splinter in my finger that has to stay there until I get the insurance deductible money in hand, another 2-3 weeks. But the phone rocks on and it is really rocking my world. The better I get at learning the Google Now commands, the easier it becomes to command this phone from the driver's seat to do my bidding. Heh, I can hardly wait for what tomorrow brings. :D

No, I will not bore you with it unless it is something really amazing, but who thought that an old dog like a Droid Razr could do such fantastic tricks? My oh my, Kit Kat sure has made a difference! I am going to try really hard not to bore the majority of the group with these constant "OMG it is so cool!" statements about Google Now and actually, would love to hear some of the drawbacks or faults in it. Yeah, it is hard to "Curb your Enthusiasm" about all this new and exciting stuff. But we have drivers in here that depend on a decent hands free phone. That complaint is what got stargo on the Blutetooth audio wrapper fix. And I, for one, was using a typical voice quality Bluetooth headset. And I always wondered what it would be like with something better, like a direct hook into the car stereo system. And now I know, and it is awesome and powerful. So this may help out some of our drivers members who really need this stuff.

Now where was I? Oh yes, "The Stand". Ugh, this is the part where Nadine Cross first sleeps with that creep, Harold Lauder. Grrrrrrrr! What a waste, Nadine is pretty hot, too. And, it only gets worse. Well, back to the show. Goodnight guys! :cowboy:

...Gosh, I sure do talk a lot in here. Hmmmm, I'll have to watch out for that a little bit better and try to stay more on topic. Hard to do when you feel you are among friends. :)