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Siri on iPhone 4S video hands-on reviews

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Oct 11, 2011 a 3:06 pm

Stuff.tv got their hands on an iPhone 4S at the Apple media event in the UK last week, and now applemastertouch got an early hands on as well, and both put Siri through its paces. Highlight:

Q: I love you. R: I hope you don't say that to other mobile phones.

Nice. Check out the videos below.

Source: iPhoneTicker.de, x2

Apple, Siri and the customer insight play

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Oct 11, 2011 a 12:23 am

Siri isn't a voice control system. Nobody uses those, and Apple wants something everybody will use. First, they value user experience, second they value differentiation from other platforms, and third, certain business models are predicated on having very large user bases. That's where the revenue streams become complex and the profit becomes really interesting.

iPhone 4S hands-on video shows fast benchmarks and "Raise to Speak" for Siri

By Andrew Wray, Monday, Oct 10, 2011 a 1:56 pm

A video purportedly showing the iPhone 4S in action reveals a new "Raise to Speak" feature for Siri, letting users bring the iPhone up to their ear instead of holding down the home button in order to active the feature. The video also reveals benchmarks showing the iPhone 4S to be about twice as powerful as the iPhone 4.

Early Sunspider marks show a total score of 2222.1ms and a BrowserMark score of 89567. For comparison, it appears that the BrowserMark score for an iPhone 4 running iOS 5 is44856, so the new iPhone 4S benches twice as fast in the browser.

Additional features found in the video show more options for Siri, including language selection settings, voice feedback, user information and the ability to turn off the service system-wide.

These benchmarks are in-line with Apple's suggestion of the iPhone 4S being roughly twice as powerful as the iPhone 4 with its new A5 SoC powering the device.

Source: AppVV via MacRumors

iPhone Live 173 & 174: Let's talk iPhone

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Oct 6, 2011 a 10:09 am

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A double feature this week as we did both live commentary and color of Apple's Let's Talk iPhone event with Rene, Georgia, Seth, Phil Nickinson of Android Central and Kevin Michaluk of CrackBerry.com, then came back later for a full on post-game show with Rene, Georgia, and Seth. That's close to 4 hours of iPhone 4S, iOS 5, iCloud, and Siri-powered goodness for your listening-- and viewing! -- pleasure! This is iPhone Live! (Twice!)

The iPhone 4S only has 512MB of RAM, same as the iPhone 4?

By chrisoldroyd, Thursday, Oct 6, 2011 a 9:43 am

Let's Talk iPhone 4S: What we didn't get

By Allyson Kazmucha, Wednesday, Oct 5, 2011 a 6:03 pm

The Let's Talk iPhone event is now over and we officially have the iPhone 4S, Siri, iOS 5, iCloud, and several other cool new features to be excited about.

"Let's Talk iPhone" event video now available

By Allyson Kazmucha, Tuesday, Oct 4, 2011 a 5:18 pm

Apple has posted their streaming video feed for the Let's Talk iPhone event. So if reading all the live blogs and news still isn't enough for you, you can hop on over to Apple's events page and watch the keynote address for yourself.

To summarize, here's what you can expect -

Siri App Store app to be discontinued Oct. 15. iPhone 4S Siri not coming to Canada?

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Oct 4, 2011 a 5:06 pm

Looks like the old Siri app will officially be yanked from the App Store on Oct. 15, hot on the heels of Apple baking it into iOS 5 on iPhone 4S. It also looks like while Siri for iPhone 4S will be available in the US and UK, it won't be available in Canada at launch. At least Apple's Canadian website is completely devoid of any Siri mention at all.

I'd make an accent joke here, eh, but if true, it's disturbing for Canadian users. Why would Canada be left out? Either a patent issue or a licensing issue that's unique to Canada?

Apple posts "See how Siri works" video

By chrisoldroyd, Tuesday, Oct 4, 2011 a 3:49 pm

Apple has posted a video guide to its just announced Siri service. It starts with a jogger using a wired headset to ask Siri to read his messages. He then he dictates a reply all without breaking stride. He then asks Siri to start to play his running mix to continue his run! If Siri works this well, it is going to be a really compelling feature on the iPhone 4S.

Apple announces SIRI artificial intelligence voice control for iPhone 4S

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Oct 4, 2011 a 2:24 pm

As part of their Let's Talk iPhone event today, Apple showed off their SIRI acquisition as the new, artificially intelligent voice control system for iPhone 4S. It hooks into Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha, and it's natural language interface will automatically perform a number of tasks, including: