Ever since Apple dropped its exciting system-wide voice activation Siri along with the release of the iPhone 4S, many have questioned as to why it is exclusive to the company's latest and greatest smartphone offering.
Siri was announced as one of the three major features of the iPhone 4S back on October 4th at the Let’s Talk iPhone event. It is a personal assistant of sorts, which can take input in the form of voice to perform a wide variety of tasks including things like sending emails/texts, setting reminders/alarms, playing your favorite song and answer other queries with help of services like Wolfram-Alpha, Yelp, Rotten Tomatoes and Google.
Yes, you read it right! Legendary iPhone hacker chpwn has, with a little help from stroughtonsmith, managed to successfully port Apple's new system-wide voice recognition feature through to the equally legendary old-timer that is the iPhone 3GS.
Siri, Siri, Siri! It's probably the most frequently used new word in tech right now, and the system-spanning voice control feature is rightly being lauded as the cream of the company's latest mobile operating system, iOS 5.
So, with the launch of the iPhone 4S, came equipped our very own personal assistant Siri. Now the question is; how much data is our brand spanking new iPhone using while we ask Siri silly questions like "Siri, open the pod bay doors".
Yesterday, we showed you two videos of Siri working - GUI, Dictation, Voice Commands and all - on an iPhone 4 and an iPod touch 4G but, as we mentioned in the post, the developers are not all that willing to make the port public. Why? Well, you will have to hit past the break to find that out!
Siri has finally been ported over to older iOS devices and, unlike last time, there is a way you can install it right now. If you’re interested, you can follow the guide after the jump!
So we know Siri is just about the coolest thing this year in mobile technology, but though still limited by its creation, there are companies out there looking to expand on Siri's usefulness. Queue ThinkGeek.
The good folks over at Remember the Milk have managed to integrate Siri with their app. It uses CalDAV, an Internet standard for allowing a client to access scheduling information on a remote server. Follow the instructions below to get up to speed with Remember the Milk and Siri.
One thing we have come to realize is, Siri isn't as useful as some of us may like. In its current state, Siri is unable to interact with Twitter and Facebook natively. Our very own whiz kid Steven Chi has documented a workaround so that you can update your Twitter and Facebook account via Siri.
