Bill Kearney wrote:
>> What is the procedure for installing SOFTWARE THAT RUNS on an iPhone?
>> Does
>> itunes install software on it, now?
>
> There is none. It doesn't support software being installed on it. And
> they've gone to great lengths to cripple efforts otherwise.

I was hoping that Jobs would announce voice dialing for the iPhone at
Mac World.

The rumor is that they have voice-dialing almost ready, and due to the
upcoming California law banning handheld phones while driving it's
expected well before July 1, 2008 (when the law takes effect).

How it will work is that you're going to have to upload your iPhone
address book to iTunes, then for 99¢ per contact you can create and
download voice-tags at the iTunes store (it will include up to three
numbers per contact it's not 99¢ per number per contact). They'll also
have some sort of volume pricing, where if you want to buy voice-tags
for your entire address book the price per voice-tag is less, i.e. 100
or more voice-tags will be 10% off.

If you want to use "digit dial" where you say the digits of a phone
number, you can create and download voice tags for each digit you need
for 50¢ per digit (or pay a discounted price of $4.99 for all ten digits).