Glad you like your new Android device. Let me give you a little insight on the voice input feature. I realize that it doesn't work if your data is disabled. Which let me to think that the voice recognition process is done off the phone and at one of Google's servers. Obviously the servers would have more processing power and better accuracy than to be done on the phone.

But I'm a little skeptical if that would proceed Google with more user preference data to help its service. Its not all that bad but it gives me a rather suspicious feeling that we're giving Google a lot more than just using their programs.