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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.

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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.

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.

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