So, I got the Iphone 4S a week ago now and I will admit that I am still finding my feet a bit with all the technology it has.
I love it; don’t get me wrong I think it’s an awesome bit of kit, although I am very incredibly paranoid about harming it. Not as in considering taking a hammer to it or anything, more along the lines of my normal mobile phone mishaps, you know the sort, the ones that involve spillages, being dropped and being left in pockets along with receipts, sweet wrappers and snotty hankies.
What is confusing me is Siri, Apple’s idea of Jarvis in Iron Man so to speak.
What an amazingly superb idea! Some gadget thing that you tell what to do and it does it. Until you go to use it and you don’t know what to say. In fancy language that will be some voice activation system that can look up stuff on the internet, take notes, set up reminders and calendar dates for you. Siri is like having a mini Dr Reid from Criminal Minds in your pocket, which I think is very cool indeed.
Seriously, though I have sat for 20 minutes not knowing what to say to a mobile phone. Ridiculous isn’t it?
What did freak me out was when I was reading stuff about Siri being a sassy sounding female……. Eh no! My Siri is a guy. So the story goes in the US and Australia Siri is a girly and the UK has a dude.
I am so not sexist at all and quite honestly don’t mind who takes notes, reminders etc as long as they get them right. Jon Briggs who has done all kinds of voice over work from ‘The Weakest Link’ to Porsche’s Sat Nav system is the voice our Siri.
The bad thing is that Siri in the UK sometimes doesn’t quite understand what you’re asking, and gives the response ‘Sorry Lynn, I can only look for businesses in the United States, and when you’re using US English’
The good news is that this is an early form of voice activation and Apple is continuing to develop it.
Personally I can’t wait for one that sounds like Melanie Sykes. Id love her to tell me that I should ‘put a scarf on ‘cause it’ll be cold out’
