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A Look at Apple's Assistant Interface for the New iPhone
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I agree. I have the SGS2 and iPhone 4. Man I'm hardly using my iPhone at all.
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Bet they will be secretly collecting that data to. Sucks that all these companies do this type of things.
If it works this way in the real world, it will be outstanding. To date, I'm not overly impressed with most voice recognition tech, at least not on cell phones. Is this a part of iOS 5 and will be coming to the iPad too?
From what I've been reading, this is not an iOS5 thing. It's a new iPhone thing. Only the iPhone will have this capability.
Considering 25 million IP4 sold per quarter, this feature will skyrocket it to 50 million per quarter easily. If the Assistant is truly as magical as the websites claim it is - it will change the phone experience forever.
Apple will have the manufacturing capacity for 25 million phones per quarter but the demand will be double that. Same thing all over again, only much worse this time. They can keep it in short supply until the iPhone 6 is released.
Get dragon search and dragon dictate from the app store and you'll get an idea Of what's coming.
In dragon search I say "led zeppelin ramble on" and I have YouTube results for it, google search, Wikipedia, twitter, all there for me.
I don't think this is going to be like androids horrifically poorly implemented voice recognition. In fact it's not going to be like any other voice recognition out there if what the rumors say are true. Of course there will be some who will say this is trivial and obvious
So far it's doing the same thing I do everyday while driving. I see no difference other than I can put my phone in drive mode and everything goes voice command. From text, call, email to web surfing. It all works great for me so unless you own a newer android phone and a iPhone 4 and spend time playing with both you will never know.
I just watched some demos of the Android voice commands and it's horribly buggy. Got to give credit for Microsoft, what little they implemented seems to work great. But Apple's Assistant is truly revolutionary.
Yeah androids sucks unfortunately... obviously we don't know how apples implementation is going to be but it's a safe bet apple will not be releasing a buggy lag fest like androids voice recognition
What vids?
The lag came from them not using the GFX chip to render the home screens and what not. On the SGS2 there is not lag at all.
To Apple's credit they rarely release a bug-fest of a product. Lion's WiFi problems notwithstanding....
Galaxy S2
After hearing the comments on the galaxy s2 voice commands i was interested in seeing their implementation, this was the first video I found, seems pretty good until the end lmao.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNm9p9_pN9Y
After hearing the comments on the galaxy s2 voice commands i was interested in seeing their implementation, this was the first video I found, seems pretty good until the end lmao.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNm9p9_pN9Y
Yeah that end part was funny as hell. But I use everything else and it works great for me. May not be for many other people because it does not have the apple name on it though. But I use my iphone 4 for various things as well.
if (and that is a big if) it ends up working this way, it will be great. but it's sure to have limitations and be buggy. there is potential but its going to be awhile before things are this smooth. imo.
Whenever they've released a new iOS, it always works on at least the previous year's model. Most people who have an iPhone 4 will not be upgrading for another year (until their 2 contract is up). If you want to draw in those users, you need to make something as revolutionary as a voice recognition OS available to them as well. I don't think this will discourage iPhone 5 sales at all, esp if there are significant form factor upgrades (larger screen, thinner profile, lighter weight, longer battery life, etc).
When Apple releases a new OS, it works on the old models, but usually not with all the same features. Apple will withhold something.
For example, the 3GS had voice control and video recording, which was not allowed on the 2G or 3G models.
As we all know, this is Apple's standard way of enticing people to upgrade, by leaving out one or two major software features, even if they could actually run on the older device(s). (MMS is another example.)
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I'm betting the iPhone 5 will have more RAM and that'll be the official explanation as to why only it can use voice assistant.
Well it would be a good explanation. More RAM and a better processor can improve voice recognition performance.
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Correction: Artist rendition of what SOMEONE-WHO-HAS-SEEN-IT-SAYS it will look like.
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I agree, at least partly.
For instance, when I heard that the 3G (128MB RAM) wasn't going to get the voice control of the 3GS (256MB RAM), my first thought was that they were reserving at least some of the extra memory for the voice control. That way, they wouldn't have to dynamically allocate the memory.
OTOH, my older WinMo phones with only 128MB RAM could recognize far more voice commands than iOS, so perhaps not that much memory was needed after all
(I wrote my first FFT spectrum analyzer for voice recognition in 6800 machine code around 1979 on a homebrew computer with about 4K RAM. So between that and the WinMo history, I'm not convinced that the above would be a great excuse, but it's a possible one depending on how they're using that memory.)
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