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Siri Voice Recognition Arrives On the iPhone 4S
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I believe it is 4S ONLY. In fact it was not in the iOS5 part of the presentation but the iPhone 4S part. I don't see it in the builds of iOS5. Therefore it must be a hardware A5/software combo limited to the new hardware.
They specifically touted it as a feature of the iPhone 4S, so I do not think it will work on the regular iPhone.
It may even involve some hardware off-processing that would make it unlikely to work just as a jailbreak.
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Sadly, this feature doesn't make me as excited as, say, the new camera system. I just don't see me using it very often. I haven't once used the iPhone 4's Voice Control, just never found it necessary.
I'm jealous of the new camera and processor though! Maybe next time I get an iPhone I'll wait for the "iPhone 5S" to come out so I can take advantage of the beefed-up version.
I'm jealous of the new camera and processor though! Maybe next time I get an iPhone I'll wait for the "iPhone 5S" to come out so I can take advantage of the beefed-up version.
What were you expecting? For Siri to reference Wolfram Alpha without an internet connection? Or for Siri to get up-to-date information on anything without access to some kind of internet connection? It seems pretty boilerplate to me, aside from the Beta reference. That's probably just Apple's way of saying, "Look, we're going to keep working hard to make this program even more enjoyable to use, so expect hiccups you encounter to be smoothed out with time."For a hyped feature that is quite the disclaimer.
Usually when Apple leaves out a feature there is a good reason for it, and it takes a while for that to become apparent. People whined like children when backgrounds weren't available in older iOS devices until jailbreaking revealed that it resulted in poor animation (unless sacrifices were made). People still whined, though. Apple cares more about the experience.That is EXACTLY why they do it genius.
I expect the jailbreaking community will enable Siri on older iOS devices, and then we'll see if this really is a marketing stunt. If it runs like silk on an iPhone 4 I'll be with everyone in crying foul.
Most of what I would like it to do would be to work on calendars, alarms, and sms all of which can operate without a data connection. It's not like I expected some magic pixie dust to find these answers, but I would have liked purely internal things to "just work" if I have cell data turned off ( and it would be nice to know how data hungry something like this truly is for those of us who pay by the MB ).
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How on earth is this a revolutionary feature? You do realize we have had voice control on our phones for years now right? This is literally the definition of a gimmick, it will be interesting for about the first 5 minutes, then you will go back to doing things the way you did before because it is much quicker.
Regardless of the efficiency of the Siri system there is still a chance that it could get your voice command wrong, thus causing you a 5-10 second delay in whatever process you were trying to perform. This in itself is enough to deter me from ever using it, not that I can on my now (somehow) outdated iPhone4.
Please
, stock drop well deserved.
How on earth is this a revolutionary feature? You do realize we have had voice control on our phones for years now right? This is literally the definition of a gimmick, it will be interesting for about the first 5 minutes, then you will go back to doing things the way you did before because it is much quicker.
Regardless of the efficiency of the Siri system there is still a chance that it could get your voice command wrong, thus causing you a 5-10 second delay in whatever process you were trying to perform. This in itself is enough to deter me from ever using it, not that I can on my now (somehow) outdated iPhone4.
Please
, stock drop well deserved.
What? No - it works very LITTLE like you kept insisting. It doesn't "multitask" requests. It's for single requests.
No, we're saying it CAN work on the iPhone 3GS and the 4. It's a 3GS and 4 App Store app. But from now on, however, it WON'T work on anything but the 4S, because they're shipping a 4S-specific beta version and the Siri app is gone from the app store.
Hate the 4 form factor. Bad fit for my hand. Had to go back to my 3GS when my 4 was stolen. Was hoping for a new form factor with curved back to be announced.
Took my Canon SLR on a trip this past weekend and was reminded of what it means to use a lens thicker than a yak hair. Not that the 4S camera upgrade isn't nice, but it still has the optics of a phone camera. Don't do any serious video that requires anything more than the Canon or my 3GS can do.
On metered data I couldn't care less about 4G/LTE or whatever. Can do w/o Siri, though it's cool.
Sticking with my 3GS for now. Will I buy a 4S when my contract subsidy recycles Nov. 1? Oh, probably not. Will I eventually crater and buy a 4S within a few months. Oh, probably yes. ;-)
Hate the 4 form factor. Bad fit for my hand. Had to go back to my 3GS when my 4 was stolen. Was hoping for a new form factor with curved back to be announced.
Took my Canon SLR on a trip this past weekend and was reminded of what it means to use a lens thicker than a yak hair. Not that the 4S camera upgrade isn't nice, but it still has the optics of a phone camera. Don't do any serious video that requires anything more than the Canon or my 3GS can do.
On metered data I couldn't care less about 4G/LTE or whatever. Can do w/o Siri, though it's cool.
Sticking with my 3GS for now. Will I buy a 4S when my contract subsidy recycles Nov. 1? Oh, probably not. Will I eventually crater and buy a 4S within a few months. Oh, probably yes. ;-)
so, youve used the product and youre certain it cant do local tasks sans internet?
I can't wait to see all the iPhone 4 users jailbreak to get Siri and then complain like a beast when it burns up their battery running the A4 chip super hard.
But sure, have fun pretending that the A4 and the A5 are "basically just the same thing."
But sure, have fun pretending that the A4 and the A5 are "basically just the same thing."
If Siri will work on the iPhone 4S, then I don't see why it shouldn't work on the iPad 2
I agree, the iPad 2 is similar to the iPhone 4S processor-wise. Why is it not available for the iPad?
