You know lots of clever Easter eggs like that might help speed up peoples adoption of using voice commands.
For example, Monty Python's Holy Grail is ripe with potential.
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An Extensive List of Things You Can Say to Siri
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You know lots of clever Easter eggs like that might help speed up peoples adoption of using voice commands.
For example, Monty Python's Holy Grail is ripe with potential.
Looks to me like it wants to know where work is, where home is, where 'the shops' are etc. I believe this to be a security concern. Sure, many people are 'checking in' all the time on line. But, should you lose your phone, I dont think you want the thief to be able to say 'take me home' and then rob your car which is sitting outside. They could do it knowing you are hammered in the pub.
W7 Mango already introduced this a while ago, pretty simular. It actually looks more user friendely in some are's. Jokes on you, I would think.
That's what the lockout and remote wipe features are for. Really no different from leaving your laptop somewhere, except that the iPhone is more easily secured.
What if you find an article..... instead of finding the tweet button..... just say "Tweet this"..... and boom.....
When I thought of Siri as "voice control" I was not too excited about it. Even less excited when Apple says it is "beta" (not very like Apple to release a major feature as "beta"). However, the more I see of what Siri can do, the more excited I get. Apple is going to need to do a good job of marketing Siri and make people understand that this is far more than normal voice control.
I have rarely used the existing voice control stuff on mobile phones because of how bad it is. If Siri starts adding support for third-party app integration, that would be great. At least let us find a location with Siri and then let us tap-and-hold the location to get the "Open in..." menu and choose Navigon.
I have rarely used the existing voice control stuff on mobile phones because of how bad it is. If Siri starts adding support for third-party app integration, that would be great. At least let us find a location with Siri and then let us tap-and-hold the location to get the "Open in..." menu and choose Navigon.
For me Siri overcomes the biggest limitation of the iPhone - the keyboard. If I don't have to type so much and can use speech then the frustrations with the keyboard will go. I think this will be a winner.
The only problem is I hate using stuff like voice control in crowded places like cafe's etc. But at home I'll be using it a lot it seems.
Yes, thats exactly the first thing you'll do when down the pub and well trollied. I think your car would be swiped before you know your phone is gone.
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And when you're in motion? In a hurry? I prefer to watch where I'm going rather than being the fool who runs into others because they are gawking at their phone. I wouldn't even need to pull the phone out of my coat.
This. Even the fastest typist can say something faster than they can type it, especially on a mobile sized keyboard.
And something else, too. The fact that the iPhone's screen is still 3.5" instead of the much hoped-for 4" might make some things harder for those who are visually impaired. This goes a long way toward overcoming that disadvantage, because you don't have to see something, you just have to say it.
Maybe that will happen, maybe not. It's trickier than many apps since some of the work is done on the server side - even if the app itself can run on earlier hardware, the server may also try to verify the hardware before making the connection
Just ask it when the alarm is set for after you set it. There are probably also preferences for having certain things read back to you automatically - in the demo video sometimes texts are read back waiting for "send", other times they are just sent.
Or they do include it already but were just not aware of it - we'll find out when it's released. I love all the assumptions about a product people have never even used.
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Can Siri help me improve my public speaking skills?
Can Siri help me improve my public speaking skills?
I'm so tired of such people, people who have absolutely no taste or understanding of what "experience" means.
Some people obviously don't have a clue about words like "conversation", "context", "logic" etc. You can't possibly fathom a product that has all these things, worse, you go ahead and compare it to something archaic feature in a Microsoft phone.
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And no one is using it. WP7 is like a tree falling in the forest with no one around. Did it even make a sound?
I'm not saying that WP7 is good/bad or anything else. I hope it's ground breaking. I hope Android takes it to the next level. I then hope Apple steps up. All this innovation will result in a better experience and more features for users.
