Good Vox Recognition, Poor Map Interface

Like most reviewers, I love how quick it is and the variety of topics it “knows”. But on practical day-to-day utility it’s just not there. It doesn’t recognize personal POIs for directions for example. You can’t say “directions to home” or “…office” even if you have a contact with name “home” or “office”. It recognizes what I’ll call “recreational” POIs (restaurants, gas stations, etc) but not names of businesses for directions. Will simply pull up a web search if you say “give me directions - company name". Google does all this all very well. In addition, if you ask for directions to someplace it will simply take you to an overview map and you still have to hit a couple buttons to get the actual directions. Siri requires one button press after while Google also requires two.
On using it to call someone, say something like "call - Steve” it will list every Steve you have. So far so good, but if you have someone that is just STEVE with no last name, you can’t get it to call them. It’ll default to calling the last Steve on the list (or it did with me).
When playing Pandora if you activate Hound, it will not mute the music so it’s listening to the music playing and your voice and Vox recognition goes out the window.
One interesting thing I found was when I asked “show me where I can find the cheapest diesel within 5 miles”. It opened a list of gas stations and from personal experience I can say it was ranked from least expensive to more expensive although it didn’t have any info on the actual prices themselves. Overall, interesting technology, not ready for daily use.

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