What is Apple referring to with the “S” in iPhone 4S? Some could argue that the S stands for the iPhone’s awesome new A5 chip, a 1ghz dual core processor allowing the phone to run at lightning “speed.” Along with the speed, the phone has a Sony built 8-mega-pixel 1080p HD video recording camera. However, most associate the “S” with the revolutionary voice control system “Siri.” Siri is why people justify the upgrade. “When I step out of my house today, a reminder will pop up on my iPhone 4S to deposit checks at the bank.” Or “Siri… remind me to do my homework after water polo practice.” Siri will know that I am leaving the pool and remind me when I pull up to my house. Now I can forget about forgetting to do something because Siri has my back.Everything can be done with Siri. Apple began their launch of voice activation with the iPhone 3GS. Although you were limited to voice dialing and song selection, it jump started what was to come from apple in the near future. Apple didn’t do it alone however. The advanced voice recognition technology was an acquisition when Apple bought the 2010 start-up company Siri Inc.
Siri brings efficiency to your life. It takes about 3 seconds to ask Siri to set a reminder, as opposed to opening up the calendar app and manually adding a reminder for a certain day at a certain time. More often than not I am too lazy to take out a planner and write down a reminder. Instead I try to remember it in my head, - this never turns out well.- I am hopeful that Siri will help me get from a “forgot about list” to an “accomplished list.” Consider Siri like a personal assistant who you don’t have to pay. Voice recognition software like Siri and Google Voice is making its way to be the next big thing. The first generation iPhone revolutionized how we interacted with our phones. The capacitive touch-screen from Apple was untouched for quite awhile as other cellular phone companies could not match the same technology. However today the majority of our phones and electronics are touch-screen. Even my 3 year-old cousin can work an iPad better than me.
It makes sense that voice control is the next step in a user interface. Its like “how can I make it even easier?” At birth we begin our introduction to talking. Therefore controlling the new iPhone should be easier than figuring how to control a touch-screen interface. This innovation will be the most efficient way to utilize our phones until Apple or Google master telekinesis.
To most of us, voice recognition software is a luxury on our phones, but this luxury has the ability to change a person’s life forever. People who are visually impaired now have the ability to utilize key features of a smartphone. Without help from another, a blind man can search restaurants, lookup meaningless facts, and even send a text message or email. Apple truly has expanded their target audience.
http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/10/iphone4s/all/1
Grant,
ReplyDeleteYour post is very detailed, but I think this should be more of a promotional article since your text is about a new product. By saying “promotional” I mean that you could concentrate on the product itself pros and cons, etc. Also the first paragraph could be better organized in terms of making more exciting, perhaps a touch of humor or a funny comment. Nevertheless, I received quite some information about the newly launched Apple product. However I am still not convinced if I should own this device or not, nor how reliable Siri Inc software is, which makes me want to research further. Needless to say, your main objective is clear, and the reader clearly knows the difference between regular and “S” models and its added cool features. Realistically though I will definitely get this phone once the price drops :)