He had his earbuds in... you can activate Siri by holding the clicker on the Apple headphones.
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He had his earbuds in... you can activate Siri by holding the clicker on the Apple headphones.
Next thing they need to do is improve that female voice of Siri. If I'm going to be having conversations with my iphone I require a sexy sultry AI to reply to me.
Or you can have the 'man' version ... demonstrated at 1:06'ish http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15172238
So we've got raise-to-ear-and-speak activation, home button activation, and ear bud clicker activation. I wonder how/if this will integrate with Bluetooth headsets?
They said during the keynote that you just press the button on your bluetooth headset.
This will be awesome! My iPhone 3G shows a BrowserMark score of 9191, so somewhere around ten times faster.
I've had the old Siri app for a few years. It was fun, but I didn't use it much. It looks like Apple's version has integrated it much more into the OS, but it looks like it lost some features. On the old one, it could book airline and hotel reservations for you, find local movies, etc. I think I remember that it stored your credit card info for making the reservations.
I've had the old Siri app for a few years. It was fun, but I didn't use it much. It looks like Apple's version has integrated it much more into the OS, but it looks like it lost some features. On the old one, it could book airline and hotel reservations for you, find local movies, etc. I think I remember that it stored your credit card info for making the reservations.
Woah a MacRumours Mod actually fixed an error in one of their articles. . . . quick I need to take a screen shot. So many mistakes in so many articles and finally one is fixed. Better one then none. I'm impressed.
This is a rare event indeed.
been a while since i had my droid... but google search was able to do that. and i think the google app on ios used to be able to do that. just sayin
Like I've mentioned here and elsewhere, we have a couple Atrix's in the family. One by my wife who is a Mac User across the board but got it because of price and one with my father in law who taught computer science and PHP programming, etc. who can't figure out how to sync his calendar, photos, email etc. My wife is used to the iPhones. I've had one since day one. And my father in law is a computer tinkerer doing photoshop, websites, and building his own systems and he's all but given up on the thing. Barely knows how to check voicemail. I'll admit, I've played with the thing time and again for hours at a time. Yes, the web sites have flash and it runs just fine. But sites with quicktime? They just don't work cuz they don't have a quicktime plugin as far as I can tell. And what about visual voicemail? There's some crap about using google voice or something. Screw that. I want to turn on my phone and have integrated visual voicemail. And the camera? Utter garbage in anything but bright sunlight. The interface for everything is garbage. Unintuitive garbage. I don't know how it gets the best speed rating. Speedtest.net consistently gives the download test on HSPA+ a slower speed than my iPhone4 on 3G. Prefereneces are everywhere - not contained in one place. Photo gallery is just bizarre. Contacts are a mishmash of anything you install - Facebook, twitter, blah blah blah I can go on. iTunes synchronization is the holy grail to top it off. If you can't have one consistent sync experience then the user experience can't be maintained. The motorola iTunes connection sync thing is good, but what about HTC? Probably have a different app. The whole "ecosystem" thing maybe didn't play nice with others in the business computer world, but in the micro computing device world Apple has it right. This time around I don't think as many people are willing to sacrifice experience to save a few bucks. My wife did and she's regretting it. When apple started down this road in 07 with the phones being $600 unsubsidized I figured the minute the competition has subsidized ones Apple is done. But they quickly got off the high horse, subsidized and got the App store before anyone could catch up. Unlike the original mac where Apple had a unique product at a ridiculously high price. The original Mac was like the Cube. /rant
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My iPhone 4 with iOS 5 got a browsermark score of 50.953. That means that with iOS5 the "old" iPhone4 is 30% faster. It even is faster than a dual-core Galaxy S2 with only 43.000 points! The iPhone 4S is playing in his own league. So it's not all about Mhz and Cores!
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Holly ;-))
Holly ;-))
been a while since i had my droid... but google search was able to do that. and i think the google app on ios used to be able to do that. just sayin
I remember a friend showing me that on his phone about a year and a half ago. It wasn't a system wide service though. (From the web browser, not the from the home screen.)
It was kinda slow too. But his phone wasn't a new phone either. In my opinion, it was clunky. Also, he didn't use natural language to use it. Things have probably improved.
I one-upped him by playing a song by using the iPhone's ear buds.
Yes, it would be great if it would listen for "Computer" or "Siri" and then a command. Maybe it would have to be an option to turn on or off to save power, but for when I am driving, I don't want to have to push the button all the time. Maybe an option if it is moving or plugged in, then it will be on, but if it is sitting on a desk you would need to hit the button.
Oh, and it needs to have different accents. If Garmin can have lots of different accents, Apple can do it better. I also think they should have a Steve voice as a tribute.
been a while since i had my droid... but google search was able to do that. and i think the google app on ios used to be able to do that. just sayin
Google search and vlingo will process simple commands. It's no where near as good as Siri. Watch the keynote and try it with google search with complex commands that use multiple data sets.
Guys keep asking about the ram, and it's an easy question to answer -
All the other new high end smartphones come with 1g ram, and their advertisers let EVERYONE know.
Now when you have another company FINALLY introduce their new high end smartphone, and they refuse to post the ram specs anywhere, you can bet ALOT of money that it only has a paultry 512, and NOT 1gig -
Hope that straightens things out for some of you -
I would love to be able to name my assistant. "Carolyn, tell mike that we have an Apple party at 9"
"Raise to talk" sounds great. The Google iPhone app has a similar feature, which works really well.
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I don't care if the phone has a 1 MHz proc and .5 MB of RAM as long it runs as expected. Which it will....
I don't care if the phone has a 1 MHz proc and .5 MB of RAM as long it runs as expected. Which it will....
