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The iPhone 4S is a touchscreen-based, slate-sized smartphone developed by Apple Inc. It is the fifth generation of the iPhone and retains the exterior design of its predecessor, the iPhone 4, but is host to a range of improved hardware specifications and software updates.
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This week I bought my dad an iPhone 4S for his birthday.
On the way home, my wife and I gave him a tutorial on how to use Siri, Apple's new voice command assistant. I figured he would either love this feature, or want to throw the phone against a tree.The result was somewhere in between.My dad has been using an iPhone 3G since 2008. The learning curve was short: He took to the iPhone immediately. So the 4S was hardly foreign to him -- except for Siri."So now how do I text?" asked my dad, who has been known to respond to texts but not initiate SMS conversations.I explained to him that he could ask Siri to do it for him. He understood the concept but had a hard time getting into a conversational rhythm with Siri. He would hold down the home button and Siri would beep that she was listening. Then he would clear his throat and think about what to ask. By the time he was ready to speak, Siri had beeped off and was trying to interpret his throat clearing."No Dad, you have to be faster," I sa...Apple has a treat for its 58 million users: a new iPhone.At a widely anticipated event Tuesday at company headquarters, newly minted CEO Tim Cook and a collection of...
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Apple chief executive Tim Cook sought to clarify his image Tuesday as leader of the gadget giant in the wake of his high-profile predecessor Steve Jobs.Cook, speakin...
The 16th annual Webby Awards took place Monday night in New York City at the Hammerstein Ballroom, where winners and celebrities walked the red carpet in support of ...
The 16th annual Webby Awards took place Monday night in New York City at the Hammerstein Ballroom, where winners and celebrities walked the red carpet in support of innovation.
Apple is working on solutions that will help to improve the text input experience on its iOS devices.The Cupertino, Calif.-based company has been discovered to be bu...
Apple may be secretly developing wearable iPods that offer full support for voice commands using the company's Siri software. Details surrounding the supposed projec...
Dag Kittlaus, the co-founder and CEO of Siri, whose voice control feature Apple launched to much acclaim recently, left the company, according to sources.There were ...
Despite countless user complaints and months of work, Apple's Siri still struggles to understand users with accents
Dr. Ablow says Siri could prove more toxic psychologically than violent video games
First you were holding it wrong. Now Apple says, don't hold it at all.Siri is a driving force behind Apple's record-breaking iPhone 4S sales , but not everyone is im...
Siri makes the new Apple iPhone 4S incredibly easy to use … as long as you're not from England. Or Scotland. Or Tennessee. Or Mexico .When the new smartphone launche...
If you're going to label Siri, Apple's iPhone 4S voice assistant, as pro-life, then you'll have to call her an ethnocentric racist too.Last night I watched Steven Co...
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It's almost a given that when Apple releases a new iPhone , it will sell out and be a big holiday hit. This year is no different: New iPhone 4S. Sold-out shelves. Gr...
From my perspective as a psychiatrist, Siri, the iPhone 's virtual assistant, could prove more toxic psychologically than violent video games or some street drugs.Fo...
The iPhone 4S and its new iOS 5 operating system offer a host of new features, including Siri voice control, a Cards app for sending paper greetings in the mail, Rem...
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