Yesterday Apple announced Siri, the new voice-controlled assistant for your iPhone, and we detailed how it works to give you an idea of the things it can help you do. But have you been wondering what you can say to it, specifically? The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) has posted a very comprehensive list of options. Here are a few examples and how they work. More
Uruguay and Argentina recently re-established passenger train service between the two countries, for the first time in over 30 years. I’m a huge fan of trains and would love to see their revival in Uruguay. I was super excited to read about new train service. Everybody really takes the ferry between Montevideo and Buenos Aires, it’s fast, there’s wifi, it’s reliable. But train service sounds cool. Only once i read about the new service did i realize that it’s really a wonderful example about everything which is wrong about rio de la plata (nice way of saying uruguay and argentina). There is now train service! The thing is, the train doesn’t go from Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina to Montevideo the capital of Uruguay. The two places where the majority of the populations of each country lives. Instead it went from Pilar, Argentina, a town 250,000 about 56km outside of Buenos Aries, to Paso de los Toros, a tiny town of 13,000 people in the middle of nowhere Uruguay. Really, the train goes from a medium size town in Argentina to a very small town in Uruguay. There is NOTHING in Paso de los Toros except cows, a small damn, and sleepy gauchos. A train route, going from Buenos Aires to Montevideo would make sense, if it took a reasonable place to cross the river. But they didn’t. What’s worse is they picked two small towns nobody wants to go to. They first train left Pilar, Argentina on the 22rd of September with lots of pomp and circumstance. The media covering the great new initiative. The thing is, the train arrived at the Uruguayan border and in classic uruguayan fashion, somebody decided they didn’t have the proper paperwork in order. They refused entry to the TRAIN! The few passengers who were on the train were transferred to a bus for the rest of the trip. They arrived at 3am! The thing is, they intended it to arrive at 3am! It wasn’t late, that’s the schedule. The train takes 19 hours and arrives at 3am, to a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. The only positive part about the whole thing is that the train trip is cheap, $31 USD!
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Soon gamers will be able to seamlessly transfer their gaming profiles and game saves between devices through Apple’s online storage service, iCloud. More
Gallery: iOS 5 landing October 12
iOS 5 will be available October 12, iCloud launching the same day originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The iPhone 4S is here with a dual-core A5 processor, more storage space and a better camera. It’s a minor update, sure, but how does it compare to other top phones (not to mention its predecessor, the iPhone 4)? Quite well, actually. More
The iPhone 4S is here with a dual-core A5 processor, more storage space and a better camera. It’s a minor update, sure, but how does it compare to other top phones (not to mention its predecessor, the iPhone 4)? Quite well, actually. More
Apple announced the next iteration of its iPhone, the iPhone 4S, at an event today in Cupertino. The phone’s body and screen are virtually identical to the iPhone 4, though it receives some significant internal spec bumps and a virtual “intelligent assistant” named Siri.
Like the iPad 2, the new iPhone 4S has a dual-core A5 chip clocked at 1GHz that is meant to deliver graphics up to seven times faster than the iPhone 4. Infinity Blade 2 was demonstrated on the handset; it’s an iOS exclusive that will be available December 1. Another feature migrated from the iPad 2 is screen mirroring, which can be done with the iPhone 4S either via AirPlay on an Apple TV or through a wired connection. The new handset will carry the same retina display as its predecessor, and will no longer need separate GSM and CDMA models; instead, the handset will be a world phone, with both systems included.
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Now that we know how the iPhone 4S stack up against the iPhone 4, let’s take a look at how Apple’s latest smartphone compares to its mightiest competitors on the other major platforms — Android and Windows Phone. In Google’s camp we chose the superlative Galaxy S II models (focusing on the announced US variants) along with the Droid Bionic for its qHD and LTE chops. We then picked the upcoming Titan to bat for Microsoft’s team. RIM’s not included here since it’s still stuck in the junior leagues. We left out the intriguing N9 because it’s a niche player. Check out the results we tabulated after the break — it’s not as clear cut as you might think!
Continue reading iPhone 4S vs. the smartphone elite: Galaxy S II, Bionic and Titan
iPhone 4S vs. the smartphone elite: Galaxy S II, Bionic and Titan originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
The camera in the iPhone 4S is going to be better. We suspected as much, but now we know exactly how it’s going to be better. More