[luhnlaw]

I was thinking of making the jump to the iPhone but positively will NOT unless/until it has built-in voice-activated hands-free dialing capabilities. Does it? If not, will it anytime soon?

[Mrjinglesusa]

It does not. I would expect this will come in a future update though.

[funkboy]

Seriously, it's pretty ridiculous that the company that has talked about voice recognition capabilities for many, many years as a built-in operating system feature has not gotten it tweaked enough to run decently on the iPhone.

I assume it's a battery hog and that's the problem?

[SirCastor]

It may simply be that the development team hasn't gotten around to it yet. I imagine that the iPhone was pushed pretty hard it's last few months before release, and they didn't get everything they wanted to in. I doubt it's a battery hog, just on a list of things to do.