I’ve been using this for a couple of weeks now, and I’m genuinely happy and surprised by the service. The idea is that you phone up a number on your phone and dictate a reminder, or something you’ve just remembered, say for your shopping list – and this transcribed into text that is then displayed on your Reqall homepage.

Reqall also uses SMS to remind you of your notifications. From the options page you can set how close to the actual time you want to be reminded of an appointment for example.

Reqall’s text alerts are free to receive, which is even better!

I’m particularly fascinated with the voice recognition systems that Reqall have implemented. Okay, no voice recognition is absolutely perfect; but Reqall’s has been set up to understand particular words. Say for instance I phoned up the number and said “buy” what I say next will automatically be put into my shopping list. If I say dates, times and locations they are also recognised, and help Reqall, to remind you.

If you invite your friends to Reqall, you’ll also be able to share reminders and important events with them too. Which I suppose could be handy for big families with shopping lists, and maybe for office purposes.

This service is still very much in its beta stage, but I can see a lot of potential for it. And if there is anyone like me out there, who is hopelessly forgetful, or you remember something really important and later forget it again, I can assure you; this service is perfect for you.

Best of all the full service is free. It costs nothing, other than calling up the numbers for the reminders (but in the UK, it’s a London number, so no hefty call charges for us).

Know of any other cool mobile services or applications? Send me and e-mail at samantha@smstextnews.com