Hi,

With all due respect to your friends, they should have read about
Spire before they paid for access to a Siri proxy. The author releases
the product for free; third parties charge for access. And probably
steel your information at the same time.

Cheers,
Ben.

On 7/6/12, Blinkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Be careful with these only because one of the main packages that run these
> called Spire I think has not updated to work with IOS 5 and it says in Lydia
> that they are not going to.
>       Just make sure to check everything out before you buy anything huh.
> I have had some friends buy the key for sir only to find out that they can't
> even run it because the package doesn't work.
>
>       I sent the Podcast link out last night and it should be up on iTunes now
> for those of you who want to download it. Just search How to be Blind in
> downcast or whatever else you use to find it.
>       have a great day!
>
> Mike M
> On Jul 6, 2012, at 3:28 AM, Ben Blatchford wrote:
>
>> I am using Siri on my iPod touch. This tweet of medical from Cydia is
>> called Siri court and what it and I think you is it allows you to use Siri
>> on your non-iPhone 4S devices this technique is awesome. I need you to
>> type this message TDF the iPhone and longest right now ch for
>>
>> Sent from my iPod
>>
>> On Jul 5, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Ben Mustill-Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> That is correct, although there is currently no unofficial unlock for
>>> the 4S, so jailbreaking won't help.
>>> I'll also echo what Raul has already said about your friend; there
>>> simply is no way that he is talking from experience because that just
>>> doesn't happen. In contrast, everyone? contributing in this topic has
>>> at some point jailbroken their device, so in theory, the information
>>> offered will be much more accurate.
>>> My accessibility experiences concerning jailbreaking have infact all
>>> been positive. Up until around 1.5 years ago, Cydia, the jailbroken
>>> app store was completely inaccessible. A couple of us emailed the
>>> developer and it was made completely accessible in the next version.
>>> An app that some of us use called voice activator used to crash when
>>> vo was turned on. Once I found this out, I emailed the developer and
>>> from memory a fixed version was released the next day.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ben.
>>>
>>> On 7/6/12, Kelly Pierce <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I believe if I were to purchase a used iPhone 4s that someone had used
>>>> on AT&T, I would need to jailbreak it to unlock it, from the various
>>>> tutorials I have read.
>>>>
>>>> Kelly
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7/5/12, Joseph Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> You don't have to jailbreak first - apple do sell an unlocked iPhone
>>>>> for
>>>>> about 800 dollars.
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Joseph
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>>>>> Behalf
>>>>> Of jeremy
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 4:27 PM
>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>> Subject: Re: Jail breaking
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you not have to jailbreak to unlock the phone though? I'd always
>>>>> assumed
>>>>> that in order to unlock the phone, it first must be jailbroken.
>>>>> Take care.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/5/2012 6:17 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
>>>>>> They are very different. Unlocking means your phone is made to work
>>>>>> with any provider. So, if you have an AT&T phone and you unlock it,
>>>>>> you can use it with another gsm provider like T-mobile. Jailbreaking
>>>>>> means you gain access to the root of the phone and can do many nice
>>>>>> tweaks and add other types of apps. Jailbreaking and unlocking are
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> synonymous.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Raul A. Gallegos
>>>>>> Never have more children than you have car windows. - Erma Bombeck
>>>>>> Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com
>>>>>> Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47
>>>>>> Facebook: http://facebook.com/rgallegos74
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7/5/2012 7:09 PM, Jessica Brown wrote:
>>>>>>> What is the difference between unlocking and jail breaking? I
>>>>>>> thought
>>>>>>> that they were 2 separate things.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>> From: Blinkin <[email protected]
>>>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>>>> Date sent: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 17:45:28 -0500
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Jail breaking
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I will cover this also in my podcast.
>>>>>>>    I have had one or two extra bugs while using voice over on my
>>>>>>> jailbroken iPhone 4 but nothing has ever moved and the bugs are
>>>>>>> certainly easy to live with.
>>>>>>>    The two biggest I deal with occasionally are folders closing a
>>>>>>> split second after I open them and I just have to re tap the screen
>>>>>>> and occasionally when I press the sleep button my phone will take a
>>>>>>> screen shot instead of locking.
>>>>>>>    to fix this I just tap the home button twice then hit the sleep
>>>>>>> button and it goes right to sleep.
>>>>>>>    these are the only issues I have ever had with voice over.
>>>>>>> Everything has worked just fine for me but I have not unlocked my
>>>>>>> phone.
>>>>>>> Only jailbroken it.
>>>>>>>    If I am lucky I will have one of these bugs happen tonight when
>>>>>>> I finish recording.
>>>>>>>    cheers!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mike M
>>>>>>> On Jul 5, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Kelly Pierce wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Greetings from Chicago.  I have never owned a cell phone before and
>>>>>>> really learned the benefit of one when I was in a suburb and asked
>>>>>>> folks for directions a few times.  no one could answer my questions
>>>>>>> directly. they all turned to their smart phones!  I realized I could
>>>>>>> have the same thing in my hand that was fully accessible.  I learned
>>>>>>> about the Straight Talk service and discovered that iPhone service
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>> now more affordable than high speed Internet access was when I first
>>>>>>> subscribed more than 10 years ago.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> to use Straight Talk or most of the other prepaid services, it is
>>>>>>> necessary to unlock the phone. Unlocking usually requires jail
>>>>>>> breaking, I understand. Even if it doesn't I would eventually
>>>>>>> jailbreak anyway for the added flexibility.  A friend told me that
>>>>>>> unlocked and jail broken phones are unstable with Voice Over. He
>>>>>>> said
>>>>>>> the places where one gestures or taps to initiate actions can move
>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>> change. These shifting locations he said can make it difficult for a
>>>>>>> blind person to use an unlocked phone. For this reason, he urges
>>>>>>> blind people to use contract service only.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> has anyone else experienced this with unlocked or jailbroken phones?
>>>>>>> Is voice Over less responsive and precise in unlocked or jail broken
>>>>>>> configurations than an out of the box phone from a contract
>>>>>>> provider?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I appreciate all the contributions people have made in the few days
>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>> have been on the list.  I have learned so much already.  I can't
>>>>>>> wait
>>>>>>> to get started on this adventure in independence.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kelly
>>>>>>>
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