Apple users have been reporting a host of battery problems on the iPhone 4S, noting rapid battery drain and power glitches in the new iOS 5 software. Here are ten tested methods to improve battery life on the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 with iOS 5, including step-by-step instructions to turn off apps like Time Zone, iCloud and Siri.
Americans watch hundreds of hours of television, so if Apple begins making them with Voice recognition, it could be the ultimate machine.
The iPhone 4S has reported problems of faster than usual battery drainage. Apple engineers are currently looking into solving the problem that has affected its latest smartphone.
Here is a list of 5 questions that will guarantee a weird response from Siri.
On Friday, we have come across a post by MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team on his Twitter page, in which the jailbreaker revealed a preliminary iPhone 4S jailbreak with screenshots. The first picture shows a terminal window with root access to the device, while the second screenshot shows Cydia on the iPhone 4S.
Near the end of his bestseller authorized biography, late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs hinted that work on building a full-fledged television set with a new interface was in full swing toward the end of his days. For years, Jobs had also reportedly been pushing engineers at Apple to develop a new interface for living room TVs.
In a matter of eight hours, India-based software company Dexetra was able to create a Siri knockoff - an early Android version of Apple's Siri voice recognition system.
The Lumia smartphones are expected to arrive next month.
Dubbed the Iris 9000 voice control module, the new product is an iPhone dock that lets owners use their Siri voice control app from across the room. Since you actually have to press a button to activate Siri, the module comes with a remote that lets you activate Siri from across far away. The product works from a 50-foot distance.
Biographer Walter Isaacson's book documenting Steve Jobs' life and works was published this Monday. In it, one little known fact has the tech world wondering about final project Jobs worked on before he died.
Sprint customers using the iPhone 4S are considering returning the smartphones due to slow network speeds and poor performance.
ThinkGeek has unveiled a new, incredibly geeky addition to the Siri app on Apple's iPhone 4S: a docking bay and speaker system called the IRIS 9000, equipped to look exactly like the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Learn what IRIS 9000 can do and watch ThinkGeek's promo video for the eerie iPhone companion, running for $59.99 and already sold out at thinkgeek.com.
An Apple TV prototype is supposedly already in the early stages of development in China and could be available for a late-2012 or early-2013 release date.
Siri is unique, but several Android apps have some of her basic functions like creating messages and speaking.
Siri is currently facing problems of misunderstanding what the user actually wants to say.
The co-founder and CEO of Siri, Dag Kittlaus, has left Apple to brainstorm new entrepreneurial ideas and spend time with his family.
Apple's Siri - an intelligent voice-activated software for the iPhone 4S - is undoubtedly taking the market by storm. The software is a good one but how does the Android OS' personal assistant work? According to various polls, Android's assistant app - Speaktoit bears positive comparisons with Siri.
Apple Inc.’s new voice-recognition application for the iPhone 4S, better known as Siri, may be given a run for its money by a recently released Android smartphone app called Iris, or Siri spelled backward.
Google's SVP of Mobile Andy Rubin spearheaded an attack on one of Apple iPhone 4S' most important features - voice assistant Siri - saying the phone is a tool for communication and should not be an assistant. You shouldn't be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone, Rubin said on Wednesday at the AllThingsD AsiaD conference.
Have you ever wondered how much Apple's latest smartphone iPhone 4S costs? An iPhone 4S teardown analysis from iSuppli reveals the answer. The 16 GB model iPhone 4S carries a bill of materials (BOM) of $188, while the 32GB and 64GB version's BOM are $207 and $245 respectively.
TheSamsung Galaxy Nexus, the latest Samsung and Google flagship smartphone likely to be released in November in the UK, was unveiled in Hong Kong on Wednesday morning. The handset's original Oct. 11 launch date was delayed in memory of Apple's recently deceased co-founder Steve Jobs. Google and Samsung revealed the specs and features of the brand new handset on Wednesday.
Various reports of security glitches in Apple's latest iOS 5 keep on emerging. Adding to the issues that people were facing while upgrading their iOS devices, a new flaw has surfaced, wherein iPad 2 owners using the Smart Cover unlocking enabled in iOS 5 are exposed to a bug that can break into their password-protected iPad 2.
