Siri in Canada Hands On: No Restaurants, Maps and Directions [VIDEO]

By Gary Ng on October 14th, 2011 109

Update 1: Don’t forget to activate Siri in Settings first to use it. How to get Siri to read your text messages? Say ‘Read my messages’.

I just received my iPhone 4S from Apple via UPS, and so far, the device is awesome. What everybody is wondering about is whether Siri works in Canada. The answer is yes, albeit in a limited capacity.

Siri is unable to search for restaurants and offer maps and directions, and can’t tell the time can tell the time if you ask “what is the time in New York” (for some reason it wasn’t working before). This is because Siri hasn’t been localized for Canada yet, but according Apple’s Siri FAQ, maps and local search support will be coming in 2012 for more countries (via @dujkan). Other languages coming in 2010 include: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Italian, and Spanish. Siri is still in beta, remember.

 
 

I was able to speak to Siri in a comfortable tone, without sounding ‘robot-like’ and she understood pretty much everything I had to say. I was able to make calls, set reminders, calendar dates, send text messages and emails, and do computations, plus have some fun. It actually works really well, and all those early reviews were spot on.

Check out this brief demo video:

How do you like Siri in Canada so far?

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of iPhoneinCanada.ca. Follow @iPhoneinCanada and on Google+. Click here to save 20% OFF at ZAGG.com with coupon 'iphoneinca'!

Did you like the post?

Related Posts

Recent Posts

← Older Comments
  • gen

    Awkward moment when flipping burgers for a whole month probably wouldn’t buy an Iphone . Someones upset they can’t afford one. The pont of getting an iphone is to be able to do those things no matter where you are, easily and portably. I’m 21, bought an iPhone and a house this year so whine because you can’t spend a dollar on “toys” and other people can spend your savings account on it.

  • NDWHAT

    Well steve jobs wasnt the only one incharge of the company and the developement, siri wasnt even created by apple orginally, siri was sold to apple and then apple did their thing and released it, anyway apple is a hige company and steve jobs didnt actually run the whole company himself, i agree with the “all about the money” statement though with their product releases but i still love apple, i dropped my ipod 4 and the screen shattered an even though i wasnt covered apple replaced it on the spot for free because i had didnt have it for long and it was my first incident with an apple device and my first trip to the apple store

  • Anonymous

    How hard can it be to serve up maps and directions in Canada? Siriously. It’s a neat toy, but not much use.

  • Blah Blah Blacksheep

    That’s a horrible word!

  • Stuart731

    I like Siri and it’s taking me a little time to get used to. One of the things that I asked it was why it couldn’t find in Canada it actually got information from the web explaining why which I thought was pretty impressive

  • Justineastet

    Want Canadian directions please :@

  • CanadianStar HipHop

    rim sytem is fin

  • Scott

    I love Siri.  But I am visually impared and really hoped the “Where am i question” would help.  But i live in Canada, only a mile from detroit.  She wont tell me canadian maps.  When is the download update for Canadian Maps?

  • Dmath1n

    You have far too many shoe boxes to play with in my opinion!

← Older Comments