Tuesday, October 4, 2011





2:32PM We're still waiting for the big info: price and availability. Will this phone hit every carrier?



2:31PM Great?

2:31PM More demonstrations of Siri, including a guy booking meetings while running, Siri warning that he has a conflict. Meeting moved, dude didn't even have to lose his stride. Now you can even work while you're working out.






2:29PM Running down the specs again, new processor, new camera, all on a white background of course.



2:29PM "We're really excited about the iPhone 4S." They've made a video to show it off. Yeah, it's commercial time.



2:29PM Sounds like that's it for the iPhone 4s... Phil is giving us the run-down again. Question is: will we have one more thing?







2:28PM Works for English (US, UK, and Australia) plus French and German. It'll be beta to start, but there'll be more languages and services coming.

2:28PM it works out of the box, but "gets better" as it learns your voice.

2:28PM In other words: data connection most certainly required.





2:27PM Phil is back. There's now a microphone next to the space bar in the keyboard, and you can do dictaction. It's similar to Android, in that it's happening remotely



2:27PM So that's Siri, Scott's off the stage. "And that is the coolest feature of the new iPhone 4S."

2:26PM Scott asks "Who are you?" Siri says "I am a humble personal assistant." Humble for now, maybe. That round of applause might change things.



2:26PM ...searching the web, setting timers, and asking more obscure stuff that gets routed through WolframAlpha. "It is absolutely blow away."


2:25PM You can get a list of example of what you can do, including meetings, emails, directions, weather, stocks, looking up contacts, creating notes...




2:24PM Scott says "Get shopping." Apparently Siri won't do that for you.




2:24PM "How many days are there until Christmas?" Siri says: 82 days. Also, 2 months 21 days, 11 weeks 5 days, 58 weekdays, and .22 years.



2:24PM We'll all be impressed until Siri gets sentient. Then... well, we'll see.




2:23PM Scott's going on a bit here, but we're still impressed.

2:23PM "Define mitosis." Siri hits up WolframAlpha and spits back a definition.

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