iPhone 4S: What CAN you say to Siri?

Curious about the iPhone 4S’s new voice assistant feature? So were we. TUAW tracked down a set of example phrases that the new Siri voice assistant is capable of understanding. It turns out that Siri can handle many categories of voice interaction. Without further ado, here they are, ordered by interaction category, along with Apple-supplied […]

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Apple's Siri voice assistant based on extensive research

Cupertino, California (CNN) — The iPhone 4S may not look any different from its predecessor, but it is Apple’s only model with a sort of robot living inside. Apple’s new phone, which was announced on Tuesday to be sold in stores on October 14, will have a new function called Siri. The program lets people bark […]

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Hands on with the Apple iPhone 4S

The Apple iPhone 4S won’t be available until Oct. 14, but PCMag got some hands-on time with it shortly after it was announced Tuesday. Cosmetically, the iPhone 4S looks exactly like last year’s iPhone 4, but as Tim Cook boasted, “Inside it is all new.” Apple‘s new smartphone has a dual-core A5 CPU, an 8-megapixel still camera, […]

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Apple intros Siri – Web freaks out (a little)

(CNN) — When Apple introduced Siri, the talking, voice-activated “personal assistant” that will come with its new iPhone 4S, the Web leaped to the obvious, rational conclusion: That it’s a sinister, potentially alien artificial intelligence that’s bound to kill us all. “If you’re wondering, ‘Siri’ can be pronounced two ways: ‘Skynet‘ and ‘GLaDOS,” wrote Twitter user […]

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