Awesome Mango feature, SMS -> Speech on HandsFree

[TheAnimus]

At the moment I've been rocking the latest cut of mango, for the first time i had the phone bluetooth paired with my car whilst receiving a text, since the new update (this wasn't in the first few cuts of mango).

It immediately told me who I'd received it from, offered to read it to me, I said yes.

It did a cracking job of text to speech, then offered to let me call back the contact, dictate a reply or do nothing!

I really hope it makes it, its one of the better features, because I'll be honest, I've read SMS's before whilst driving on my own or flying solo....

[scaryjim]

Sounds like a great concept - some of the scariest times I've spent in a motor vehicle have been when my sister's been "working from home" and driving me somewhere and she's spent half the journey reading and sending texts...

Not something I can ever see me using, mind...

[TheAnimus]

Its one of those features which will be standard on every phone very soon and all drivers will wounder what they did before! Kind of like a proper handsfree kit in a car is now....

[Flibb]

I got caught out with a similar feature on a winmo phone (about 3 years ago) . I had inadvertently turned it on while playing with the phone, but it remained on when the headset was disconnected. A couple of hours later somebody sent my a filthy joke regarding sex with a goat, and my phone promptly read it out while I desperately tried to shut it up, strip gloves off and leg it out the lab I was working in.

[TheAnimus]

you have to prompt it to read the message