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Originally Posted by puckluck
If people in Canada are planning on buying the iphone 4s for Siri, Dont.
It sucks balls and can't do anything really other than tell you the damn weather and some other useless information. Still a great phone, but Canada got shafted.
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I couldn't disagree more. Ya it sucks not having one feature, but it does many things. After half a day with it I already wouldn't want to not have it. Extremely useful things I've done so far:
- "Find my wife" (pulls in info from the Find My Friends app and pins their location on a map)
- "What am I doing tomorrow/on the weekend/next week?" (brings up you calendar events for the time frame mentioned)
- "Will it snow/rain/be sunny tomorrow?" (very fast weather access)
- "Remind me to leave the stroller when I leave this location" (I'm always forgetting to leave my mom the stroller when she baby-sits, and this triggers a reminder when I get about 0.5 km away)
- "remind me I need gas at 9 am tomorrow" (going to the airport, can't be forgetting that)
- "book lunch with dad next wednesday at 2"
- *email comes in while driving* "read latest email message".
The fact you can talk naturally is fantastic for me. Even when my wife was playing with it and she asked to bring up a map and siri replied "Sorry, I can't do that in canada yet" my wife snapped back "so what can you do?" and it gave her a list of capable functions. She was kind of impressed.
Yes it will be awesome when map services get here, but until then Siri is still incredible imo.