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    Siri works fine on jailbroken iPhone 4, why not officially?



    Developer Steven Troughton-Smith had Siri working on his iPhone 4 shortly after the 4S launched, but with one major problem: it couldn't talk to Apple's servers, so local info couldn't be retrieved. (A bit like using Siri in the UK, then.)

    Now he's fixed that, making it work fully on an iPhone 4, 9to5Mac reports. So what excuse does Apple have for keeping the voice-controlled assistant an iPhone 4S exclusive?

    An iPhone 4S jailbreak was required to port the proper files for Siri's servers to connect to an iPhone 4. But the video demo below clearly shows it working, finding a local Starbucks, telling jokes, and answering how many metres are in a kilometre. Troughton-Smith has also made it work on an iPod touch.



    "At this point it's all about confirming this works across devices... and documenting everything," Troughton-Smith told 9to5Mac. "It does require files from an iPhone 4S which aren't ours to distribute, and it also requires a validation token from the iPhone 4S that has to be pulled live from a jailbroken iPhone 4S, and it's about a 20-step process right now.

    "It literally took no longer than 10 minutes to put all the pieces in place and perform our first test on my iPhone 4, and it was an instant success," he continued. The microphone on the fourth-gen iPod touch isn't as responsive, so it doesn't work as well.

    Hopefully this will put pressure on Apple to release Siri for the iPhone 4, though it's highly likely it'll stay as a 4S exclusive to lure people into buying the new mobile. Despite record sales, plenty of iPhone 4 owners are still reluctant to upgrade, particularly with reports surfacing over the weekend of a bug in the new phone's location software causing serious battery drain problems.

    Do you think Apple should officially bring Siri to the iPhone 4 and iPod touch?



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    I think it should be on other devices


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    it would be neat on the ipad
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    i think apple need to pull their finger out

    personally i think its a ploy to sell iphone 4s then when the sales start to drop a little then they will introduce siri in an upcomming ios update

    what you guys think
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    Quote Originally Posted by silverfox0786 View Post
    i think apple need to pull their finger out

    personally i think its a ploy to sell iphone 4s then when the sales start to drop a little then they will introduce siri in an upcomming ios update

    what you guys think
    yes it's a nice way to sell more phones by saying that certain features can only be had on certain hardware versions. but then again they did the same thing with the iphone 3g / 3g s and the iphone 4. so nowt new there.
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    i dunno, i wouldnt have gone for the iphone 4s just for siri, heck i dont even know how much id use it. i woulda just gone for the faster processor, better camera and ios 5 which is now also available on every other platform lol i think siri will be made available on future updates on other idevices
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    i think siri is the reason for it sales but for me no thats not a push for me to Que up to get one

    i would end up divorcing my phone if what i heard about siri having an attitude is all true

    but still would be nice to have it

    unlike 3gs getting facetime on a jailbroken phone i seen reports that the jailbroken version of siri will never get released to public via cydia which is a shame

    so its all eyes on apple hehe
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