If 'Assistant' is the biggest new feature of the iPhone 5, will you be disappointed?

Will you be disappointed if 'Assistant' is the biggest new feature of the iPhone 5?

  • Yes, I'll be disappointed

    Votes: 103 64.4%

  • Nope, as long as there's a spec bump I'll be happy

    Votes: 57 35.6%
  • Total voters
    160
I know quite a few iPhone owners that refuse to text/email on their iPhone, or use the maps because they're scared to touch the small keyboard. My wife is one of them. Give them a way to sidestep that and you will have a winner.

If Apple will taunt this as key feature in the iPhone 5 I have no doubt that they would make this so easy for all those non-tech, non-nerds, elderly, physically-challenged owners to easily embrace it as "no brainer" feature.

New apps with iOS5 will also most likely make this a key feature!
 
JMC08 said:
Everyone who is voting 'yes' needs to download the Dragon Go app, and realize Apple is going to unveil that their feature is even better than that.
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I will believe it when I see it, and then only after a few months of reports here to see if it's working as it should.

Apple can hit a home run, or they could toss a gutter ball. You simply never know.

Little did I ever imagine last year that I was pre-ordering an Antennagate Special.

Much less that the CEO would act like a dolt and talk down to everyone, telling them they had no clue how to hold a phone. :eek:
 
I'm pretty sure I'd get a new iPhone even without the assistant feature. I'm looking forward to seeing exactly what they have come up with (if assistant is in fact this year's wow factor). I like siri and dragon, but I don't use them all that much. With some tweaking I could see myself using my phone in the car more (I drive stick) but I wouldn't use voice commands in public. I still can't stand it when people use bluetooth headsets in non-driving situations. What's worse is when someone has a regular wired hands free headset and they are using a hand to hold the mic closer to their mouths. WHY NOT JUST HOLD THE PHONE LIKE A NORMAL PERSON?

Can't wait for Tuesday's announcement.
 
For those of you that want to get an idea of what "Assistant" could be like, download the free app Siri. This is the company Apple bought to create with "Assistant" Siri's functionality is amazing, and is very, very good at recognizing words in normal speech.
 
OP: Outside of hardware specs-bump and a new version of the OS, what new 'features' do you think can still be added to iPhone?
 
cward0715 said:
For those of you that want to get an idea of what "Assistant" could be like, download the free app Siri. This is the company Apple bought to create with "Assistant" Siri's functionality is amazing, and is very, very good at recognizing words in normal speech.
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Unless you have a northern English accent :(
 
pardon my ignorance, but i thought ios5 has already been testing amongst developers and that ios5 is what is going to be used on the iphone 5/4s.

Since they are pretty close to the release, wouldn't it be fair to say that whatever we see in ios5 is what we are going to see in terms of UI features in the iphone 5/4s?

The only thing left to be seen now seems to be hardware specs.
 
eaglesteve said:
If it is activated by long pressing the home button, then we would need jailbreaking to disable it AFAIK.
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I was thinking there would be a way to turn it off/on in preferences. Maybe I'm wrong though.
Anyhow, if it takes a long-press, why would you need to disable it at all? It's not like it will get in the way :confused: .
 
It'll have to work a damned sight better than Voice control does. Half the time if I tell my phone to play a song it dials a random international number (not exaggerating).

And yes, I do have my regional settings set up correctly. It's hopeless.

Phazer
 
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Answer....no

Are we now to not only listen to people talking on their phones, but also to people talking to their phones? I thought FaceTime was a great feature. I have it on every device I own. Never have used it one time.

Seems that a phone should first and foremost have excellent voice and sound quality and then the best possible antennae. So far iPhone fails that test. Next a smartphone should have the best available data connectivity. It appears this new iPhone will not have LTE. Next it should have any useful purpose like NFC, but it appears it won't.

An annoying voice control is not a substitute for the basic functions. I hope all of this speculation is wrong...we'll see.
 
Bernard SG said:
I was thinking there would be a way to turn it off/on in preferences. Maybe I'm wrong though.
Anyhow, if it takes a long-press, why would you need to disable it at all? It's not like it will get in the way :confused: .
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It is exactly because it gets in the way that some of use disable it. Too often, the voice command screen pops up annoyingly.
 
na1577 said:
[...] talking to your phone in public is embarrassing.
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There was a time when talking on a phone in public was considered embarrassing and terribly bad form, as was having your eyes glued to your phone's screen and tapping away on it.

In fact, many people still consider it rude and impolite.

That hasn't stopped many people from doing it, however, and I sure we will grow used to people yakking trivialities to their digital assistants the same as we have gotten used to being subjected to hearing half their mundane mobile conversations on trains, trams and buses.

.tsooJ
 
na1577 said:
Yes. I'm not a fan of gimmicky features like voice. They never work like they're supposed to, and talking to your phone in public is embarrassing.
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Seriously - you're embarrassed in using your phone in public?

In any case, I'm dyslexic so I use Dragon Dictate to write. It does feel awkward, but that is because the software can't parse natural speech yet. It seems strange to speak 'OK comma see you at ten full stop'. At some point it will be able to - perhaps Apple is working toward that. So far the best voice recognition on the iPhone requires a network connection, but maybe Apple has put the required parameters into permanent memory in the iPhone, like it did with QuickDraw in the early Mac's.
 
vitzr said:
I will believe it when I see it, and then only after a few months of reports here to see if it's working as it should.

Apple can hit a home run, or they could toss a gutter ball. You simply never know.

Little did I ever imagine last year that I was pre-ordering an Antennagate Special.

Much less that the CEO would act like a dolt and talk down to everyone, telling them they had no clue how to hold a phone. :eek:
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Or that they'd never want a bigger screen...


cward0715 said:
For those of you that want to get an idea of what "Assistant" could be like, download the free app Siri. This is the company Apple bought to create with "Assistant" Siri's functionality is amazing, and is very, very good at recognizing words in normal speech.
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Tell me the icon for this gimmick won't be a paperclip.:rolleyes:
 
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All I want is a bigger screen and larger storage
 
JMC08 said:
The words I used signified that it will be that way in the near future. Not now, or six months ago.
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Well, i beg to differ. Voice control has been around on handsets (Android) for some time now, and the people who i know who have Android capable phone's have no desire to use the feature. I don't see why in 6 months time it'll be any different.

As others have said, it'll have to be a hell of a lot better than the current Voice Control, which is basically broken. But i doubt Apple would have it as a "tentpole" feature of the OS if it wasn't ready, however, they did use Voice Control as a selling point for the 3GS, if i'm not mistaken.
 
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