Yes, it does exactly that!

Wow. How very revolutionary! You have been able do that with any standard Sony Ericcson phone, for the last 2-3 years, and probably Nokia, HTC, Samsung too. My phone has a button that says "reply with voice-message" and then using some sort of black voodoo it gets sent over mms.

I like it when apple make a new product, strip it of most basic features and then when they finally add the long missing features... It's like the second coming of Jesus.

I never said it was revolutionary. It's a feature that seems useful, is new to the iPhone, and will be a free upgrade. As a very happy iPhone owner (and yes I've had Sony Ericcsons, Motorolas, Nokias, HTCs, etc...) this upcoming feature (and the others) are something to look forward to.

If Sony Ericcson offered a software upgrade that did over the air sync of all my MobileMe data, that would be great, and I can't imagine saying "well I've been able to do that for ages with my iPhone" to a happy Sony Ericcson owner. Why does it have to be a battle?

Yes revolutionary - and end to typing and interpreing txt spk.

What's really funny though is all the people saying "but my Sony motorola windows mobile bzjqrrZzz73000 has had this for ages" as if that mattered.

Isn't this evidence that it's not the list of features that sells, but the quality of the device and the user interface to the features that matters? Not proof that the iPhone is crap because it lacks these features, but proof that it's extra good for thriving even without these features because the rest of it is so good.

Sent from my iPhone. Written awkwardly on an annoying keyboard in a too small space. But I don't mind!