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Apple may leave iPhone 4S call drop bug in final build of iOS 5.1

Sometimes the bugs tend to stick around. Per GigaOM and a 109-page thread on the Apple Support Communites forum, the problem cropped up when the iPhone 4S was launched in November 2011 only to remain unfixed when iOS 5.0.1 was released a month later to deal with battery life complaints, and a look at the […]

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Spire hack allows Siri to operate on jailbroken iPhones, requires proxy server

One day, Siri will run on everything (the toaster included). Per The Mac Observer, pre-iPhone 4S owners that like to jailbreak can add Siri to their combo smartphone and iPod thanks to a new tool called Spire from chpwn. The hack apparently works around copyright concerns by letting users install the Siri files from Appleā€™s […]

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iPhone 4S to arrive in mainland China come January

The iPhone 4S is en route to the easy…just wait about a month. Per Chinese web site People’s Daily, Apple has met all of the requirements for the iPhone 4S to launch in mainland China, and the handset will reportedly debut before the Chinese New Year in late January. The web site reported this week […]

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Rumor: Apple developing wearable, Siri-controlled computing devices

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: It’s the rumors that make technology interesting. Per the New York Times, Apple has reportedly begun work on new, tiny, wearable devices that could be controlled with Siri, or used to input information to devices like the iPhone. One of the prototype products developed by Apple, […]

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Apple may be paving way for Siri to be used by other devices, says hacker

This is kind of interesting. Following yesterday’s update to iOS 5.0.1 for the iPhone 4S handset and its apparent lack of specific changes, Cult Of Mac and well-known jailbreak hacker MuscleNerd revealed on Thursday that the update allowed a user to collect the files needed for a Siri port without having to break Apple’s copyright, […]