BigHand, a developer of digital dictation workflow systems for the legal community, today announced a new set of mobile dictation capabilities.  

Features that have been added to the core BigHand Mobile functionality include:
• BigHand Mobile (BlackBerry Edition) now includes live status updates on whether work is in-progress (and with whom) and whether it has been completed. Multiple priority options and unlimited send options also extend full enterprise DDS workflow to the BlackBerry platform. In addition, one-click recording, recording when the SD card is fully encrypted, support for U.S. and U.K. English, French, and German, the ability to deploy password from BES, improved default keys for reduced keyboards, Send All option, and full support for the BlackBerry Bold. 
• BigHand Mobile (Windows Mobile Edition) now includes the non-RIM specific enhancements above as well as an extended set of screen resolutions for a variety of Windows Mobile devices.
• In addition to unique support for .caf and .aiff format allowing dictations to be submitted from an iPhone, BigHand Mobile now offers full support for various .amr formats, allowing dictations to be sent from any email-capable smartphone such as Palm (e.g. Palm Treo 680 Smartphone) and Symbian devices (e.g. Nokia E71, Samsung D900). The update also includes enhanced processing of multiple attachments, logging if no attachment is included, and superior fail resilience. 
• The BigHand Web Client has now been updated with automatic selection of appropriate language setting with the ability to override (U.S. and U.K. English, French and German), VPN with AD authentication, and support for IE8.
• Finally the new System Administration console now includes advanced mobile user mapping, licensing for & information about Mobile users, as well as instant user/email association.

"This edition is the only offering in the market that truly extends the power and flexibility of an enterprise DDS workflow product onto the mobile platform," said Jonathan Carter, BigHand's client solutions director. "While competing systems on the market offer a variety of differing second-generation features, some without progress visibility and others with only one send option, no other digital dictation vendor is able to offer this complete set of advanced workflow features across the mobile environment. With some suppliers just completing 2.0 versions, it is great to move ahead again with the third generation of BigHand Mobile."