What’s your battery level? Just ask your Windows Phone.

If information technology'due south one thing people with smartphones like to know it's the bombardment level. Double so if you're the OCD type. Windows Phone 8 makes knowing such information a smidgen easier by displaying information technology nether Settings without having to tap into the menu, but people still want more options.

The new (and oddly named) Windows Phone 8 app Bombardment Monitor with Vocalization Control just hit the Shop and as you can probably tell from the championship, it adds a new characteristic via spoken communication...

True, the app has a Alive Tile that can testify you many things including percentage and estimated time remaining (it updates every 30 minutes, a limit via Microsoft) but information technology's the vox role we're interested in. Yes, the unique feature this app brings is the ability to hold your Windows Primal and use your phonation to send out commands including "Bombardment…speak/say/tell me Status". The app will then open up and the familiar TellMe lady will kindly pass on the info. In addition, you can tell it "Battery…speak/say/tell me Time Remaining" and yous'll get the amount in hours and minutes that your precious Windows Phone has left before blanking out.

Information technology's a nifty little addition, i for which we recall we'll apply oft. We're not a huge fan of bombardment Live Tiles and to be honest, the design of this one leaves a lot to exist desired (it's seriously ugly). Merely being able to not take the Tile on our Start screen and withal exist able to get our specific battery level via phonation? Well, we remember that'south absurd.

Having said that we're however not a fan of existence required to memorize these vocalization commands for each app--information technology's not intuitive and requires you to purposefully remember a specific string for multiple functions. Cognitively speaking, Microsoft has failed here big fourth dimension, as most people volition forget the key phrases.

But back to Battery Monitory with Voice Control, it'southward a great little app that is also free. Go pick information technology upwardly on the Windows Telephone Shop hither.

Windows Phone 8 devices merely.

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