With all the apps and baked-in functionality available on smartphones, it’s sometimes easy to forget that the devices can also make phone calls. Talko, a new iOS app from former Microsoft Chief Architect Ray Ozzie, is meant to revive voice as the primary means of communicating with others while on the move. Click here to find app development jobs. Think of Talko as a conventional phone on steroids: Not only can you use it to talk to people in real time, it will record calls for later sharing, the latter useful for conference calls in which all interested parties can’t participate at the time. Users can also send voice memos to one another, as well as photos (“By tapping the camera to share as you talk, others will instantly see what you see,” is how Talko’s website describes it), and organize all their vocal data with tags and bookmarks. “Tapping out short messages can be quick and very effective for ‘signaling’ and simple coordination, but our over-reliance on these tools will severely limit how we’re able to meaningfully connect with those we need and those we love,” Ozzie wrote in a blog posting about the service. “And for what we need in our new, mobile-centric style of work, this staccato form of communications isn’t enough to make us productive. It isn’t enough when we need to get things done.”
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