As has already been stated, Nuance has had a version of Talks for the Windows Mobile platform for more than a year. It was only available from Verizon and only for two of their handsets. Furthermore, Nuance purchased this technology from Dolphin, which had a version of Hal for the Windows Mobile platform which had been available a few years earlier. There was talk in the summer of 2009 that Nuance would release a version of Talks at the end of 2009 that would be available from multiple distributors and able to run on almost any phone running Windows Mobile. This is obviously a year later than that talk had indicated. The development cost would have been relatively small, and I suspect most of this involved testing and setting up the distribution network. If Nuance's alternative was to just sit on this and not make it available, I'm glad they chose to make it more widely available. It does remain to be seen though how many licenses will be sold, especially since Windows Phone 7 is supposed to be coming out next week.
-- Christopher [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:talks- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of James Mannion > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 9:08 PM > To: Talks Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Talks] Talks for Windows questions > > I think the huge disadvantage to going with the windows mobile side > right now is it is a dead end platform as far as we know til we don't > know when and if anything will change about that. Microsoft has left > out any hooks or anything for windows mobile 7 to be made accessible > with screen readers and 6.5, the latest version before that is about > to be out dated. That will make it both more difficult to find phones > running it and out dated technology right out of the gate. This might > not matter to you, but is possibly a huge consideration. I wouldn't > buy it for that very reason. I don't know if talks is just releasing > something they have been putting work into for a while and have just > released it, but I don't know wwhy they would put development effort > into that right now. > > On 9/22/10, Shane W <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'll be curious as to how or if it works with Geo. I think > > Geo might be tied to mobile speak but I'm sure someone will > > testthis eventually. > > > > S > > > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:12:59PM +0100, chris hallsworth wrote: > >> Hello all. > >> Now that we have the announcement of Talks for Windows being > >> released, what are the advantages/disadvantages of owning a Symbian > >> phone and a Windows Mobile phone, or whatever they are called. > >> I like Symbian, but I also am interested in other platforms. > >> Many thanks. Take care. > >> -- > >> > >> From Chris H in Derbyshire > >> E-mail and Facebook: [email protected] > >> MSN: [email protected] > >> Skype: chrishallsworth7266 > >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/christopherh40 > >> Please check out my blog at http://chrishallsworth.klangoblog.net. > >> Many thanks. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Talks mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks > >> > >> Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: > >> eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ > >> and > >> Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Talks mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks > > > > Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: > > eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ > > and > > Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Talks mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks > > Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: > eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ > and > Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/ _______________________________________________ Talks mailing list [email protected] http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ and Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/
