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Will siri work on the iphone 4?

Will Siri work on the iPhone 4?

Posted on Oct 4, 2011 4:44 PM

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Oct 31, 2011 3:25 PM in response to Noble Seven

Hey Nob Steven

We're here devating about Siri and cuz it isnt available for us, the iOS 5 users

all we know what Siri was sucessfully ported to iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4 with Apple Severs working so very good

and Apple always know that A4 proccesor could work with Siri

The new Apple stuff for business kind LIED about Siri

We need an answer and more important, Siri working on all our devices supporting iOS 5


I said!!!

Oct 31, 2011 4:06 PM in response to Noble Seven

I am sorry, I never intended to offend anyone, or cause any trouble noble seven. As i have stated in my previous posts I am a huge fan of apple. My only point was that maybe they should have said from the beginning that they were "by choice" only allowing siri on the iphone 4s, rather than it "requires the a5 chipset" there fore it "cant" and/or "wont" work on the iphone 4. Thats all. Kinda feels like my favorite company in the world just lied to me. This is me sad 😟 (ask any of my friends and they will tell you i am the biggest promoter of apple ever. Or that I sell more people on how great apple everyday and i dont even work for apple! )

Nov 1, 2011 11:29 AM in response to UK-Max

UK-Max wrote:


What makes you so sure it needs the A5 chip?


From a pure marketing standpoint, it makes perfect sense that Siri works only on 4S. Were it not for Siri, there would be very little incentive - almost none - to upgrade from 4 to 4s. But that's not the same thing as saying it can't physically be done, or it needs a particular chip to do it.


In fact Siri is simply a clever extension of technology that's been around for years, so it's more of a breakthrough in imagination than a breakthrough in technology (and no less worthy for being that).


I'll bet my proverbials that there will be some work around or fix which, though not to Apple's taste, enables users of 4 or 3GS handsets to engage with Siri.

The fact is, from what I can tell, there is no evidence to support your statement either, right? Aren't we all kind of speculating anyway? It would seem to me, and I could be wrong of coarse, that Siri was coded to work specifically on the A5 chip. As far as the technology being around for years, this maybe true in broad terms but no one can deny the possibilities of Siri and we can't compare Siri to other implementations of such programs. That is like comparing a fifteen year old operating system to Lion, as seen in another thread. Someone, I think his name was Dave, mentioned after you said there is always Dragon Di.. my personal experience with this app is limited but I've heard there is no comparison to Siri, just from a accuracy standpoint alone, not to mention all the other features you get from the latter.

Nov 1, 2011 11:45 AM in response to aplCla55ic

@aplCla55ic


I'm trying to make sense of what you wrote...


The only thing I can somehow imagine Siri was specially made for the iPhone 4S is if there's a string of code on Apple's servers which will only accept a device recognized as an iPhone 4S to initiate a connection / send back a reply.

There's been plenty of evidence shown that Siri works perfectly fine on an iPhone 4, and I'm sure it'd work perfectly fine on a 3GS - especially since the speed difference is minimal between the two; comparitive to the 3G and 3GS.

Also, I can't say it's true, but plenty of articles out there point out that Nuance, the makers of Dragon Dictation, are powering Siri as we speak, on Apple's servers. So accuracy alone would most likely be the same, unless there's been more work done on Siri in the last few months not done to Dragon Dictation. Especially since it's a selling point, I'm sure there's some hush-hush money passing hands to leave Dragon Dictation as is.


Linky: http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/05/apple-siri-nuance/

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