Siri, the personal assistant extraordinaire, is one of the hallmark features of the iPhone 4S. But why oh why can she not be on the iPhone 4? She is, after all, just software. iPhone developer Steven Troughton-Smith thought the same thing and actually ported Siri over to the iPhone 4.
His first effort was less polished than the one above but this latest one (in the video above), shows Siri working just as buttery and delicious on the old iPhone 4 as on the 4S. It loads just fine, you see the complete Siri interface, actions and she can completely understand you but you can’t do anything with Siri on the iPhone 4 yet. Apple isn’t authenticating Siri commands from an iPhone 4 on its servers so all you get to stare at is the purple and silver.
Hopefully, Apple will introduce Siri to more devices because the software is amazing. They don’t have an excuse anymore, hardware-wise the iPhone 4 can clearly handle it.
tim
Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 10:33 AMWell, colour me shocked. Of course it can run on iphone4, that’s where it was created. It’s probably never going to authorised, though, cause its the only real ‘feature’ Apple has to sell the 4s to the masses who don’t know what a dual core chip is.
Par for the course, with Apple, as far as I am concerned.
Steve
Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 2:42 PMMakes no financial sense for Apple to release it on the iPhone 4. They’ve pulled it from the Appstore and shut off support so they really really want you buying a new phone for this feature. Of course it doesn’t need dual core, but without Siri locked to this device, what else could they have used to pimp the new processor to non-gamers? They really needed to differentiate the 4S from its predecessor, even if it meant making the carrot a 4S-exclusive.
C Butters
Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 8:19 PMFunny i had it on my galaxy s 2 before iphone had it. The app is call something else. Maybe there is a copy right issue in it? Samsang!
David
Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 8:54 PMThis is exactly why I willnever buy another iphone. This is about fencing you in to buy the new one and lock you in. Also Apple wont let me run Adobe Flash. Until they do that its not on my radar.
Mad Apple fanboiii!1
Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 11:41 PMYou must really love flash ads, or choppy flash video and games at 5fps! I’m yet to see any Android device run useful flash content at an acceptable frame rate. Plus you can kiss your battery life goodbye…
Flash sucks. The web is moving to HTML5. Deal with it.
andronicus
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 12:52 AMYeah I have to say I have a Galaxy and flash on it does suck.
anonymouse
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 3:43 PMWhen my wired internet was down, I streamed an entire TV episode on a site similar to MegaVideo over 3G. It was flash enabled, and ran smoothly.
Oh, and it’s on a Samsung Galaxy S 1, and it was using the stock browser. Every now and then I watch video’s from the facebook web interface on it and it works fine.
MakeYourMindUp
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 2:21 PMSo, you’ll NEVER buy another iPhone – “This is exactly why I willnever buy another iphone” (or even WILLNEVER)
Never, not ever. Unless they allow Flash – “Also Apple wont let me run Adobe Flash. Until they do that its not on my radar”
Pretty good stand you’re taking there, dude.
Mad Apple fanboiii!1
Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 11:36 PMCalm down rabid Android fanboys!! Siri is still beta. The reason it’s only running on the 4S for now obviously ties in with marketing for the new model, but it’s also because Apple’s servers clearly couldn’t cope if all the iPhone 4 and iPad2′s (with exactly the same A5 CPU and ram as the iPhone 4S) all got access at the same time. Its highly possible we’ll see Siri branch out to other iDevices as the technology matures and Apple can cope with the demand. At the very least it should come to the iPad2 given they run the same chip.
While I’m at it, I think its funny how people always neglet to mention the hugely improved antenna (with proper world phone capabilities) on the 4S, plus it’s the first phone to get Blueooth 4.0, and most importantly: the vastly improved optics, low light performance, and of course pixel count of the camera. Plus it’s insanely fast to open from the lock screen and in-between shots. Makes the Galaxy S II’s camera look like an old clunker (unless you just go by specs on paper which is the only comparison Fandroids seem to understand) :-P
Guess 8 megapixels and 1080p is yesterday’s news and it shoud have an ultra tacky low res 3D camera like certain other brand new Android phones right?
Peter
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 2:11 PMApple should have set up a few more magical and innovative servers then. CDMA means nothing in Australia anymore, and funny you mention Bluetooth. What does the iPhone use Bluetooth for? Handsfree calls. That’s it? Really?
Fucking fanboys of every stripe, retards the lot of you.
cflow
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 4:27 PMI shared a photo with my wife via blue tooth last night, is that improper use?
You need hugs.
Peter
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 3:30 AMhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT3647
Now do the same with an mp3, a ringtone, an app and a video. Without jailbreaking or an app with permissions to access Apple’s walled gardens, you can’t. My old Sony Ericsson K700 or Nokia 6300 had more Bluetooth functionality out of the box.
Huurwoningen
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 5:53 AMIs Siri a usefull tool then?
I can’t see how my “old” iphone 4 is missing something. It never did before ;-)
cflow
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 4:30 PMSo far its an interesting experiment.
As an Aussie, I have to speak pretty clearly and a little slowly for it to get a clear message (lots of “I dont knows”), but I can check the weather locally, search in google, set a calendar appointment and make her get feisty by swearing.
All valuable to me.
Searching for location based items in Australia seems a big fail though. Matter of time until implemented.
Stuart
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 10:19 AMI hope it comes to devices like the MacBooks and iMacs, would make using them a little bit more efficient.
Maybe Apple could even make some money by making this an app for android some how…
moloko
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 12:06 PMI prefer specs on paper compared to Apple fanboi Imagination Land specs. Apple sold the new phone based on Siri which doesn’t work so well. Now it’s oh no thats ok it doesn’t work it’s just a beta. It seems everyone shut up about the Grand magical voice recognition god that is Siri and realised they got sucked in to the Grand Magical Apple marketing hype machine.
Simon Reidy
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 2:05 PMPretty much every service Google launches is beta. Apple have clearly marked Siri as beta from the start. Obviously getting it to to work flawleslly with every location, languauge and accent on the planet is going to take a lot of work and time.
This is just the start of great things to come from very promising technology. Obviously its going to take time to mature. Hopefully Apple open up the Siri API to 3rd party developers. Then we’ll really see some cool new capabilities.
cflow
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 4:31 PMThe camera was what I wanted and was looking forward to and it’s awesome.
Siri has potential.
Adrian
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 1:34 PMSo sick and tired of hearing about Siri and how inovative Jobs was. Steve didn’t invent the f#@%^&$ thing he bought the company that did.
Richard
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 4:24 PMAdrian, you must be someone with a critically subnormal intelligence level, I say complete moron. Are you actually familiar with the history of Apple and Steve Jobs ? I am sure you not.
If you are sick of hearing about Siri – stop litening. Read a book instead, you know that thing with the paper pages and text printed on it.
You are using this technology, but you do not appreciate the fact that someone had a vision of how to apply it and deliver it to your hand. Shut this computer down a grab a book.
Isaac
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 11:14 PMPretty sure you’re thinking of Bill Gates buying Dos buddy.
Matt
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 7:14 AMBut he is right – Siri was a purchase by Apple and was working on the iPhone 4 perfectly. But, hey, it’s their company – do what they want with it.
Myztry
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 11:59 PMSiri was a much better acquisition than Microsoft’s acquisition of Kinnect. The Kinnect technology would have been more useful for security surveillance than a handfull of gimmicky rails games.
Ray of Perth
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 2:41 AMTo cflow: With my phone I have a weather widget which shows me all the time what my local weather is andthe 7 day forecast. What no widgets on your phone, must be an IFail. As for web search by voice, been on my phone since day one, goes with the good camera that iFail has only just got to a reasonable quality – finally! To Myztry: Kinect is the premier technology for millions of applications, as was the modern touch screen as invented by Microsoft!!
jeremy
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 6:00 PMReminds me of iMovie on iPad one – actually works on jailbroken ones with a simple config hack, but apple decided we didn’t need it because, who would edit video shot on thier phone on thier pad? Simplicity can equal silly sometimes …
Bill Doors
Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 1:22 AMStill a crApple