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Cracked Siri has been successfully ported to an iPhone 4

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56 pointsdiegogomes29 comments

except the voice recognition part doesn't work. other than that! :)

edit: looks like it just won't communicate with apple's server? (Which I think is the main functionality) it's hard to tell since video doesn't show any voice commands working.

The main functionality doesn't work. Useless.

yeah this is useless. looks like voice recognition works, the AI does not.

C'mon.. you have to start somewhere. Do you honestly think that when you reverse engineer a product you end up with a 100% compatible clone on the first release/iteration. Give it some time.

There's no reason to be so negative.

It's just that the title implies that it's been ported in a working fashion.

Some people here are acting as if they were just told that Santa Clause isn't real.

it seems (highly) unlikely to me that it will ever be successfully ported, as apple can surely white-list the service by IMEI or serial number.

Then hack it to send a different IMEI or serial number. I wouldn't make a bet against hackers getting compatible software to run.

The details here is that Siri seems to use some sort of authentication token when contacting the server that the iPhone 4 isn't sending, so it's rejected. We'll have to see if it's possible to work around that or share the token with a real 4S first.

you have to wonder if the beta tag has been applied purely because of scaling the servers, artificially holding back to the 4S rather than iphone 4 and ipad 2 probably makes capacity planning a lot easier!

I can tell you this, last night while playing with Siri we had several periods where it "couldn't connect to the network" - these were not networking issues, everything else worked fine.

By "not networking issues" you must mean not issues with your network: because surely they were networking issues related to Apple's AI processing network... i.e. the cloud

Why isn't Siri on iOS 5 for the iPhone 4?

Because they'll sell more hardware that way.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3115536

FWIW: I seem to recall something said at the keynote (or many a discussion afterward) that the greater power of the 4s' A5 was "needed". [ correct me if I just dreamt that ]

Not that that should stop anybody from processing it with an A4-powered iPhone.

What would it take to port to a 3GS?

A miracle? :P Best you can hope for is finding a copy of the old Siri app

How about a 1st generation iPod Touch? :P

The old Siri app doesn't work anymore, either.

I just tried this.

"I want you to call me Gorgeous"

and from that point on Siri calls me Gorgeous! haha

"Ok Gorgeous what do you want to do!" :D

Can you make it call you Rumplestiltskin? What's the longest name?

Yes, it will just update your "me" contact with that nickname and from then on will call you that =).

I can even use nick names I assigned to people in my contact list.

"Send a text to honeybunch" (my wife)

"Send a text to cruella Deville" (my boss)

Hah!

The 4S is was entirely a software update from a features perspective. The article definitely lends more credence to this argument, because Apple said that the Siri was a 4S only feature. The biggest announcement that Apple made, in my mind, is the fact that the iPhone 3 is now free with contract.

Yep. Nothing but software, except for dual-core, faster CPU, much faster GPU, 8MP camera, 1080P video, and combined CDMA-GSM radios that can roam internationally no matter your carrier.

But other than that, what have the Romans ever done for us?

edit: Not double the RAM.

You're right that it's a major update, but unfortunately the RAM didn't double.

Whoops. You are correct. I thought the 4 had 256MB.

It's odd you think the 3GS being free was the biggest announcement, because it's been free here for ages. Heck, I can get a 4S free on the right contract. Here - free on a $59 cap http://shop.vodafone.com.au/mobile-details/buy-apple-iphone-... or also free on an $85 infinite plan (infinite calls/text + 3Gb data) similar with the other carriers

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