no, i dont. i have had in all the phones i had and never used it. and most of the contacts that i have are not the usual name and the software can never get that right when i say it so no not for me. and speed dial is better. but i would love to see the speech to text, where i can talk and the phone would encode that in text and send it. would love to have that feature.

Yes. I'd love to see that as well. It seems to take a lot of computing power, though. I know there are programs for Windows OS (Dragon Naturally Speaking, Windows Vista speech to text) but they require powerful computers or else it takes too long to execute. The OQO was able to do it with one giga of RAM, just. I believe there are some cloud based utilities that provide this, for a substantial fee, of course, and tied to certain phone providers only. Furthermore, I understand (well my understanding is based on the past few days acquaintance with maemo, so it is very limited) there currently are no voice recognition apps for / in maemo.

I want mind dialing!!!!

Had it on many phones and never used it. Frankly, there are a lot of other 'things-other-phones-take-for-granted' that are a lot higher up my wish list. I don't do phone calls when I'm driving. Like to think think about, you know, driving.

I can see that. As someone else said, user preferences vary. My job requires me to drive and talk, and in some countries it will be illegal to handle the phone (I believe Canada in one such country, which is one reason the BlackBerry watch is out - where you can see incoming messages, caller id etc, without taking your phone out).

What are the "things-other-phones-take-for-granted" you'd like to see?

Having an extra feature is always welcome if it doesn't hinder the device performance or general usability. I have to admit that I haven't used the feature since 2000, before my first smartphone. So I for one ain't gonna miss it. But I guess a lot of others would like to have it.

Seeing how many users keep posting "I don't miss feature X, because I don't use it", I really wonder how Nokia ever sold models other than the 1200.

Because every feature is the "dealbreaker" for someone.

Nokia should provide voice dial along with mms, videocall and communications long. All these features that we take for granded in series 60, sooner or later, will come in maemo, too.

I've got pocketsphinx compiling and packaging (and flite too for that matter) for Fremantle if anyone's thinking of actually implementing a voice dialling feature.

Not sure how well it performs (the digit test worked for me at least), and I need to optify it before pushing to Extras-devel.