Google Voice Search Comes to Nokia S60 Phones

YouTube video courtesy of Google

Good news for Nokia S60 smartphone users…

Google Search by voice travels the world, finds Nokia, learns Chinese

And, it became potentially useful to millions of potential users by supporting spoken queries in Mandarin Chinese.

Nice, I guess. But, as I’ve mentioned in this blog before, my experience with voice search has been if-fy at best, amusing most of the time (funny errors), and often useless. I haven’t tried Google voice search on my iPhone since trying it when it first became available and finding it frustrating and annoying to use.

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