The iPhone thread

[Tezcatlipoca]

It's true!

[Lord Nikon]

There's a website called 'Why Siri Why' but since it contains some strong language in the messages sent by Siri or manually corrected after I shall leave it for people to google it rather than providing a link. It's along the lines of damnyouautocorrect (also can contain strong language when people become frustrated, or the imaginative autocorrect)

Thing is, T9 dictionaries have been around for years along with predictive text, yet these sites really had to wait for the iPhone before they became necessary. Is the iPhone progress or a dark plot by apple to create stress and tension in families?

[wwe]

Originally Posted by Lord Nikon

There's a website called 'Why Siri Why' but since it contains some strong language in the messages sent by Siri or manually corrected after I shall leave it for people to google it rather than providing a link. It's along the lines of damnyouautocorrect (also can contain strong language when people become frustrated, or the imaginative autocorrect)

Thing is, T9 dictionaries have been around for years along with predictive text, yet these sites really had to wait for the iPhone before they became necessary. Is the iPhone progress or a dark plot by apple to create stress and tension in families?

just been on the site thought ill have a nosey. cart belive all the mistakes it makes and the stuff it puts. hope apple can sort this out

[Tezcatlipoca]

The BBC iPlayer app has been updated and now supports the iPhone and iPod Touch instead of just the iPad. No more need to use the browser!

iPlayer

It also supports AirPlay and now works over 3G (beware of data charges though!).

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Lord Nikon

Thing is, T9 dictionaries have been around for years along with predictive text, yet these sites really had to wait for the iPhone before they became necessary. Is the iPhone progress or a dark plot by apple to create stress and tension in families?

Anti iphone bias aside, the iphone is actually no worse or better for these autocorrection errors than any phone. No autocorrection system (Be it T9, the iPhone one or any other) is perfect. They all make mistakes. It's due to the nature of language. Humans are a lot more intelligent than any machine, and we still make mistakes with language.

These sites aren't necessary, even now. They are sometimes amusing, but not necessary. The only reason they didn't happen before is (IMO) that until damnyouautocorrect, no one really thought of doing them.

[gazzae]

Originally Posted by Stuart

Anti iphone bias aside, the iphone is actually no worse or better for these autocorrection errors than any phone. No autocorrection system (Be it T9, the iPhone one or any other) is perfect. They all make mistakes. It's due to the nature of language. Humans are a lot more intelligent than any machine, and we still make mistakes with language.

These sites aren't necessary, even now. They are sometimes amusing, but not necessary. The only reason they didn't happen before is (IMO) that until damnyouautocorrect, no one really thought of doing them.

I've an iPhone for personal use and a Blackberry Torch 9860. The iphone automatically corrects the word as soon as you press space whereas on the blackberry you have to press the corrected word - pressing space accepts what you have typed. So if you send a text not really paying attention on a blackberry the worst you can get is spelling errors on the iphone you could get all sort of random words!

That said I do think most of the ones on damnyouautocorrect are fake.

[Tezcatlipoca]

Hmm. Despite initially being dubious of it, I've found Siri to be quite handy sometimes, especially for handsfree use.

e.g. If I'm walking home from work, & have my earphones in, I can press the button on the earphones and dictate a text message to my wife, e.g. "Ask my wife what should I get for dinner?". I think you can get it to remind you to do things when you reach a certain location too, e.g. once you get home or get to work.

I just used it now to create a dental appointment in my calendar. Easier than going through it manually using the screen.

Anyway...

Microsoft has - rather bizarrely IMO - released a few big apps on iOS recently -

Last week: My Xbox LIVE

Yesterday: OneNote

Today: SkyDrive

Today: Kinectimals

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by Matt D

I can press the button on the earphones and dictate a text message to my wife, e.g. "Ask my wife what have you done for my dinner?"

Corrected it for you

I don't like these talking app things. the time it takes to say no and trying it again you could do it yourself.

[Cobbydaler]

Nokia exec says 'youf' are fed up with Jesus phone & confused by Android...

Link

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by Gary L

Corrected it for you

LOL

Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

Nokia exec says 'youf' are fed up with Jesus phone & confused by Android...

Link

I thought all the "Yoof" had BlackBerrys anyway.

Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

Nokia exec says 'youf' are fed up with Jesus phone & confused by Android...

Link

He hopes that's the case. I am not so sure. He might be right about iPhone losing some of it's allure but those customers are going to Samsung, not Nokia. Although I want Windows Phone 7 to succeed so i'll hope along side him..

[chrisjones]

Siri = Witchcraft!

[muppetman11]

Just bought this deal below and wondered what people thought , ok deal or not ?

http://www.buymobilephones.net/mobil...ernet/12386557

Just to add Im getting 30.00 cashback through Quidco.

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Just bought this deal below and wondered what people thought , ok deal or not ?

http://www.buymobilephones.net/mobil...ernet/12386557

Just to add Im getting 30.00 cashback through Quidco.

That's better than getting it directly from Vodafone!


Via Vodafone:

£31 per month for 24 months - 300 minutes, "unlimited" SMS, 500MB data. Phone = £169.

£36 per month for 24 months - 600 minutes, "unlimited" SMS, 500MB data. Phone = £99.


You're paying £89.99 for the phone, and getting 600 minutes etc. for £31 per month.

[muppetman11]

Thanks for that so it seems it's a pretty good deal. What's Siri like ? I hear it's got no UK location services yet. I'm not sure it'll manage with my northern accent LOL