In a Forbes interview with Microsoft’s Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, he contended that comparing Siri on the iPhone 4S and Tellme on Windows Phones are much alike. Craig says,
At least from a technological capability you could argue Microsoft has had a similar capability in Windows Phone for more than a year… All that is already there, fully functionality for years.
Seriously? The video above seem to suggest otherwise.
A photo comparison from all iPhone version cameras (First generation iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, the new iPhone 4S), a point & shoot camera, the Canon S95 ($500), and a professional dSLR, the Canon 5DMKII ($4000+) in two situations: 1. A macro setting to test detail and quality of the cameras; 2. A backlit skyline shot.
DSLRs are obviously good cameras but I can’t see buying another point and shoot after owning the iPhone 4S. I need a camera to capture the moment, not create gallery art.
Apple’s first TV ad for iPhone 4S.
“You speak. Siri helps. Say hello to the most amazing iPhone yet.”
A video shot on the iPhone 4S (by Benjamin Dowie)
Holy cow. Time to throw my 7D in the bin
Got an iPhone 4S yesterday and got up this morning to go for a surf. No surf, so thought I’d shoot some stuff to see what the new camera is like on the 4S. Got home, looked at the footage, and couldn’t believe it came out of a phone. Was so excited so thought I’d quickly cut a vid to share the goodness.
It’s actually amazing. The automatic stabilisation seems to work wonders, and gets rid of most the jello. Depth of field is flipping awesome. Colours are really good straight out the camera, but I did give this footage a slight grade with the 3-way colour wheel in Final Cut.
![Siri Service on Apple’s iPhone 4S Talks Back With Humor - WSL.com:
The real science of artificial intelligence is finally catching up to science fiction. HAL 9000, the creepy sentient computer from the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey,” has been incarnated, in the form of Siri, a virtual personal assistant that comes with Apple’s new iPhone 4S, which arrived in stores Friday.
The phone takes verbal commands and questions, and responds with computer-generated speech.
Real humans are responding to this alarming breakthrough by asking their iPhones ridiculous questions.
The good news is, Siri has a sense of humor.
A lot of work went into so much artificial sarcasm.
The creators of Siri put “deep thought” into the personality of their software, says Norman Winarsky, a co-founder of the company that was bought by Apple for $200 million in 2010. Siri was born out of an artificial intelligence project at SRI International, a research institute. [Read more…]
(photo via Shit that Siri Says)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt63yr661G1r4eoiuo1_1280.png)
Siri Service on Apple’s iPhone 4S Talks Back With Humor - WSL.com:
The real science of artificial intelligence is finally catching up to science fiction. HAL 9000, the creepy sentient computer from the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey,” has been incarnated, in the form of Siri, a virtual personal assistant that comes with Apple’s new iPhone 4S, which arrived in stores Friday.
The phone takes verbal commands and questions, and responds with computer-generated speech.
Real humans are responding to this alarming breakthrough by asking their iPhones ridiculous questions.
The good news is, Siri has a sense of humor.
A lot of work went into so much artificial sarcasm.
The creators of Siri put “deep thought” into the personality of their software, says Norman Winarsky, a co-founder of the company that was bought by Apple for $200 million in 2010. Siri was born out of an artificial intelligence project at SRI International, a research institute. [Read more…]
(photo via Shit that Siri Says)
iMerlion: The Singapore iPhone/iPad Guide:
Apple has confirmed that Siri, its intelligent personal assistant, will be made available in Singapore.
In response to a press query from iMerlion, an Apple spokesman said: “Siri is a Beta product that is shipping in the countries that iPhone 4S is shipping.”
Earlier, questions were raised about whether Siri would be made available in Singapore after it was revealed that Apple’s Singapore webpage for the iPhone 4S did not mention Siri at all. In contrast, the US webpage gives Siri considerable prominence.
Siri uses Apple’s A5 processor on the iPhone 4S to process instructions or requests made using natural language. Among other things, it can tell you the weather, check your calendar, schedule a meeting, search Wikipedia or define words.
Siri now works with French, German and the US, UK and Australian versions of English. More languages and functionality will be added later.
It is not known why Apple would chose to omit mentioning Siri on the Singapore page. However, given that Siri only works with specific languages and accents, it seems likely that Apple does not want to promise that the Singapore variant of English will work with Siri. Apart from accent, Singlish also uses a different grammatical structure from standard English which might hamper recognition.
