Those who have been lucky enough to get their hands on and play with Siri's intelligent responses in the last couple of days, must have noted that Apple's intelligent voice assistant built into the iPhone 4S has a bit of an attitude. Trying to find out how Apple built Siri's quirky personality, the Wall Street Journal spoke with one...
9to5Mac in collaboration with developer Steven Troughton-Smith have ported the amazing voice assistant technology a.k.a Siri from the iPhone 4S to iPhone 4. The developer successfully installed the iPhone 4S Siri and Springboard files onto an iPhone 4 allowing Siri’s interface to load up just fine on the iPhone 4, with all the features from the iPhone...
The release of the iPhone 4S has turned millions of people into instant BFFs with Siri (check out our hands on video), the new 'humble assistant'. Siri has definite character--she's sassy, helpful, and can sometimes seem down right moody. Although she is slightly held back in Canada in terms of finding restaurants and map locations,...
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...
Some people in Germany have already received their iPhone 4S shipments from Apple, and now the first full length video review of the iPhone 4S and Siri's capabilities have been posted by iPhone Ticker (via MacRumors). Check out the video below as it will show you a preview of what to expect when you receive...
Over the next few days we'll be seeing tons of iPhone 4S videos such as unboxing, hands-on impressions and other smartphone comparison videos all over the web and it seems that we already have the first one with us. Some lucky guy has already gotten his hands on a black iPhone 4S before its actual launch on...
Here's a pretty interesting discovery by folks over at FSM. A new field in Contacts.app labelled as "Related People" has been found in iOS 5 Gold Master which gives you the option to unify your contacts based on their relations such as mother, father, spouse, child, brother and sister. As the source notes, in case...
If there's anything available out there that comes close to Siri, the brilliant Voice Assistant technology which Apple has included in the new iPhone 4S, its this. Its called Vlingo, a personal assistant, voice-recognition app which can be downloaded for free from the App Store for your iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4. The app supports integration with...
Back in 2009 a list of voice commands was posted that could be spoken to Voice Control on your iPhone. At the time, that was seen as pretty impressive. Fast forward two years, and it's unthinkable how far we've come now that Siri is here. With yesterday's announcement of the iPhone 4S, TUAW has posted...
Yesterday after the iPhone 4S announcement, Apple's websites went live with descriptions of new features. Absent on Apple.ca was any mention of Siri--even in the accompanying promotional video. This omission resulted in people asking whether Siri would be available in Canada or not. Canadian Jim Dalrymple from The Loop confirmed Siri would be available in...
Here are the promotional videos used today by Apple to promote the new iPhone 4S, Siri, and iCloud, as posted to Apple's YouTube channel (don't forget the Let's Talk iPhone keynote stream is also online): That Siri demonstration video is just awesome.
With today's announcement of the iPhone 4S, Apple attempts to crush their competitors with not a sexy design, but with software. Siri, the new 'humble personal assistant' (don't worry, it's coming to Canada) brings all new voice navigation, and from what I saw in the 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote stream, it's quite impressive. Here's what some...