Will the iPhone 4 support the new Siri integration?

What Is Find My iPhone

that is very not true

raihan123 wrote:

What Is Find My iPhone

Please do not thread-jack; ask a new totally different question then the one origonally asked.

Please read the manual on how to use your iPhone:

Manuals iphone

These people claiming the hardware can't support it have no idea what they are talking about. The iphone 4 already has voice recognition built in, and the same voice! Just hold the home button a few seconds and then speak the number you want and the female siri voice will gladly dial the number you just spoke. Don't know the number? Just say "call CONTACT NAME" and it will know what you are saying. Heck, you can even tell it to play music and other things. So it's obvious that this can easily support siri by sending the data to the siri server and getting a response back...the server does all the computing not the phone! They just don't want to add it to the iphone 4 because the main selling point of the 4s is Siri, otherwise why would they make the focal point of the commercials? Quite frankly, I don't give a hoot about it. From what I hear it doesn't even work that well, and it's not worth a couple hundred bucks more. Like some other things Apple puts out: it's overpriced bling.

But people like shiny objects!!!!

I'm curious to see how Siri improves in future builds of iOS. So for the thousandth time, I ask; where is the SDK?

Not really true - ever tried using the voice control on the iphone 4 in a car? Maybe if you have an american accent it works but as a brit its so hit and miss its hilarious - worth a youtube video I think.

Its so bad it made me very cross with apple. Ive subsequently heard that the 4S uses a different chip to isolate speech from background noise which I think is the issue, I Just tried it in my quiet office and it works, however in a car (typically some where you might actually need the function) no chance. In fact its possibly dangerous as you have to take evasive action to stop it dialling the wrong numbers.

jonnyohio wrote:

These people claiming the hardware can't support it have no idea what they are talking about.

You'd best let them know then:

Siri chip

I've read a few negative things here about the iPhone 4S. Well I can tell you I purchased it just a couple of weeks ago and I think it's incredible, including Siri which is just amazing. Maybe some here are a little jaded because they've had an iPhone before, so maybe the jump between iPhone 4 and 4s wasn't as significant as they wanted. That may well be but it shouldn't obscure the fact that it's an amazing product. Granted, this is my first "smart phone" and I was upgrading from a flip phone that I couldn't even use to check email on (yes, I was also the last person I knew to purchase a cell phone). Still, the iPhone 4S is working flawlessly and I think I was pretty smart to wait until now to get an iPhone. With the 4S the technology has finally reached a kind of nirvana and to me Siri is the proof of this. If you are thinking of upgrading you might really consider it. Or wait for the iPhone 5. I'm sure I'll be tempted by that one too.

You do realize that siri was an app that has existed since the iphone 3gs? And it's utter BS to say there is a chip needed to run on iphone 4 or 3gs, right? You also realize that there are people who are running siri on iphone 4 now. There is no hardware requirement that prevents Siri from running on iphone 4 or 3gs. It's simply marketing and Apples choice to do so as a differentiator between the 4s and 4.

The fact that people are using siri on iphone 4 to begin with should tell you that's not the issue, more over, the fact that siri was an app that existed and worked on iphone 4 until october should tell you this. When apple bought the siri company before launching the 4s they stopped allowing iphone 4's to connect to the Siri SErver that is the only limitation it's not hardware based.

acadia1106 wrote:

You do realize that siri was an app that has existed since the iphone 3gs? And it's utter BS to say there is a chip needed to run on iphone 4 or 3gs, right?

You realize the Windows has existed since the late 1980's right? It's utterly ridiculous to say that a modern processor is required to run it now! I used to run it on my IBM PC XT just fine! Whey can't I run Windows 7 on my PC XT now! It's an outrage I tell you! An outrage!

ROF,L!

You do realise that OSX existed since 1999 right?

And it's utter BS to say there is a chip needed to run 10.8 on Mac G3 or G4, right?

You also realize that there are people who are running Snow Leopard on a G4 now.

There is no hardware requirement that prevents Maountain Lion 10.8 from running on a Power Macintosh G3.

It's simply marketing and Apples choice to do so as a differentiator between the and old G3 Powerbook and a Macbook Pro with an i5 or i7 Processor.

Oh wait... updated and totally rewritten programs work different to the origonal versions?

Any factual information to back that up?

stevejobsfan0123 wrote:

Any factual information to back that up?

Yeah, I used Wikipedia to see when OS X was released, and then I also read on Apple's pages what the requirements of Mountain Lion are.

But above all I was being sarcastic...

No, he pulled it out of his nether regions. Snow Leopard is compiled for Intel only, it will not run on the PowerPC chip in the G4. So you can safely ignore everything else he says. The hardware requirement that prevents 10.8 from running on the G3 is the same one that prevents Snow Leopard from running on a G4; different machine language instruction set. Leopard was the last OS X version that had dual binaries.