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I have not used Jott’s  iPhone application in a while. Instead I was going the "old-fashioned route" and calling the service from my phone.  It wasn’t that I don’t like the application, its just that I was
finding it, on occasion, a little bit buggy. The biggest issue was if I were calling numerous times in a row and I wasn’t in a WiFi zone, the application kind of choked on itself and messages were not sent to the server until I was back in a WiFi zone.  Without high-speed net access, it became more of an issue when I need it to get the note back and wasn’t going to be in WiFi coverage for a while.

Yesterday, I needed to send myself a series of 15 Jotts in rapid succession while driving home. I don’t know what the company did with the application, but suddenly it was not only sending each message over 3G, but as soon as I finished the message, it was available to send back to me right away.  If this is the continues, it means that the service itself and especially the iPhone application for it are now very useful in any location.

If you haven’t tried the service it is definitely worth a look. I find it to be incredibly handy — a convenience and a significant timesaver. And while the free version of it includes the iPhone application that works quite well, it may well be worth looking at a subscription — the difference between 15 seconds of recording time and 30 seconds is tremendous.
 

When all is said and done, after searching for a decent voice dialing app I find myself using good, old fashioned dialing when it comes to placing calls on my iPhone. It isn’t that there aren’t good apps ot there for voice dial, there are, but sinceit still takes nmerous steps to use voice dial on the device, dialing works almost as well if not as well. One of the keys to finding and dialing people who are alreayd in my large contact list are apps like Smart Dial.

As we have written previously, Smart Dial lets you use the large, finger-friendly, phone pad to type in names. Dial 9 for "W" (of X,Y,Z), dial 6 for "O" (or M or N), dial 4 for "I" (or G or H) and dial 7 for "P" (or Q, R or S) and in four taps Smart Dial brings up my contact for whatsoniphone.  

Smart Dial allows you to quickly dial your contacts by spelling their name directly on the number keypad. It uses the contacts in your Address Book, starts quicly and includes "smart logic" such as default phone number and recently dialed calls to keep your number of taps to a minimum.

You can-
• Find contacts by first and last name
• View contacts by default phone number or other alternative numbers
• Create new contacts immediately when a new phone number is entered
• Access previously dialed phone numbers
• Editing of contact info from within the app
and more….

Best of all, Smart Dial just received a nice update. In addition to the usual bug fixes, you can now