Comments on: Microsoft SYNC

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:21:08 +0000

Interestingly – my new 2009 Suburban has the same thing. Works very well with our iPhone.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:06:36 +0000

@kevin: Yep – thank you MS for filling in Apple’s gap.

By: Kevin White

Kevin White — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:33:55 +0000

You know, the one thing I miss about my Windows Mobile phone is voice dialing. I had it on my 8525 and I used it all the time. But only in my car. I’ve seen people using it in public and it’s just….. *bleep* “SAY A COMMAND” “CALL SALLY” “DIALING SALLY AT HOME”

By: Dean Roberts

Dean Roberts — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:54:21 +0000

My wife’s Fusion has Sync. It works extremely well! I really like being able to call out a play list or artist by name.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:03:28 +0000

@Bakugan: HA! Or at least drunk dialing. “Oh, oh, oh, dude, shou know shou I should call…”

By: Bakugan

Bakugan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:59:03 +0000

And it prevents from driving drunk too because a mumbling alcoholic voice won’t work.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:30:07 +0000

Got it on my Focus last year and it’s pretty cool. I just wish that Ford would trust their customers to do their own updates for the most part. We’ve been waiting for the “2.0″ release for some time and there’s a lot of discussion about whether customers should be allowed to install the updates in a lot of cases. I can understand if it really does need new hardware to work, but when it doesn’t, let us do it on our own rather than forcing us to have a dealer do it.

Also, it doesn’t seem to work well with Podcasts on my Zune for some reason. Won’t recognize them without browsing the device.

Still, for the flaws about which I grumble, they’re relatively minor. The phone works, the USB->Media device works, etc. You need to be somewhat specific when using the voice activation to call people or it will pick someone close to, but not quite, the person you want to call. We’ve come a long way w/ voice recognition, though. I still remember when it used to be along the lines of “yes, that was definitely a voice.”