iPhone & iPad Live 185: Sexist Siri Santa

Rene, Georgia, and Seth talk Santa Siri commercial, sexism charges, AT&T and T-Mobile deal, Nuance buying Vlingo, how to replace your iPhone 4 vibrator assembly, jailbreak, Facebook Timelines, Kindle updates, FPS games, and more. This is iPhone and iPad Live!

Note: Due to the holiday and CES schedule, we won't be recording on Sundays for the next few weeks, so enjoy special iPhone and iPad combined episodes every Wednesday!

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Meta

• Win the iOS device of your dreams in the TiPb holiday giveaway! [Week 3]
• 2011 TiPb Readers Choice Awards

News

• Santa uses Siri to help make his Christmas rounds
• Is Siri sexist?
• AT&T says resistance futile, ends attempt to assimilate T-Mobile
• Nuance acquiring voice-recognition app maker Vlingo
• iMessage issue causes headaches for stolen iPhone users

Jailbreak/Mod/DIY

• Weekly Mod: How to replace an iPhone 4 vibrator assembly (GSM only)
• Untethered jailbreak on iOS 5.0.1 shown off

Apps

• Facebook for iPhone gets Timeline support, more
• Kindle updates iPhone and iPad app to include newspaper, magazine and textbook support
• Top 5 best first-person shooter (FPS) games for iPhone and iPad

Accessories

• Giveaway: Custom iPhone backplate mod

Tips

• Daily Tip: How to watch iPad Live, iPhone Live and our other podcasts on your big screen TV

Hosts

• Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie)
• Georgia (@GeorgiaTiPb)
• Seth Clifford (@sethclifford)

Credits

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We're here every Wednesday night at 6pm Pacific, 9pm Eastern, 2am GMT at www.TiPb.com/live

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