What a pity the voice assistant, perhaps the best accessibility feature to us 
given the slowness inherent  in our having to use a virtual keyboard, couldn't 
have somehow been incorporated into the IOS for the iPhone 4.


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On 4 Oct 2011, at 22:45, Dónal Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote:

> it simply uses words, extrapolates context using some kind of ruleset and 
> gives back answers.
> 
> Essentially we've waited 16 months for a device with a faster chipset, a 
> better antenna oh and voice recognition packaged as a personal assistant.  A 
> triumph of marketing over content.. Who knows, the people who put that little 
> lot together are probably the same geniuses who put the spin on unpopular 
> government policy.
> 
> *smile* I'll probably still buy one though because my poor old 3gs is 
> starting to give up the ghost.  I'll now await the collective explosions from 
> the apple-can-do-no-wrong fundamentalists!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dónal
> On 4 Oct 2011, at 22:40, Orin wrote:
> 
>> It's more than VOice Recognition. It's an assistant, which is more than 
>> Voice Rec.
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>> On Oct 4, 2011, at 4:12 PM, william lomas wrote:
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>>> so voice recognition is only on iPhone 4s?
>>> ripoff
>>> why would i want a new phone just for that feature?
>>> true we have it seems faster processor but ios five works on current devices
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