Voice dial without Internet connection I'm new to Android, just purchased a Sony Xperia Arc S.

So far I haven't been able to figure out how to do voice dialing (in car etc.). I've read that you can use Google Voice Search, but this fails if there is no data connection (and why do I need to send data to Google for an internal operation like this?). 

Perhaps I am missing something? ( My 6 year old nokia feature phone does this :/ )

UPDATE:

It seems that the 'google voice search' way is the only method on this phone,  so I've tried it out. However it doesn't seem to work for me (just comes up with 'did you mean', and a list of unrelated terms) - perhaps its an accent thing.  So I'm still looking - currently I'm unable to dial while driving, which is pretty important to me.
Last time I checked hands-free voice dialing is not possible with Android.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9817

Put simply, Android is NOT car-friendly telephone. 

In fact, Android phones may be banned from use while driving in some states, as Android does not support hands-free operation.

Perhaps, nothing wrong with that if we consider it as just a small internet tablet and not demand full telephony capabilities from it.