“Developer Steven Troughton-Smith has been working with 9to5Mac exclusively to port the iPhone 4S Siri voice command system to the iPhone 4,” Mark Gurman reports for 9to5Mac.
“Troughton-Smith was able to get the beginning steps of a full port rolling after installing the iPhone 4S Siri and Springboard files onto an iPhone 4,” Gurman reports. “As you can see in the video [below], Siri’s interface loads up with all the features from the iPhone 4S implementation.”
Gurman reports, “You may notice Siri and the iPhone 4 acting very sluggish in the above video. The issue here is not Siri, but is that a special GPU driver for iPhone 4 is needed; and it is obviously not included in the iPhone 4S binary cache – where the Siri files are located.”
Gurman reports, “We are not entirely sure why Apple is making Siri an iPhone 4S exclusive but it could be due to special microphone support, or because the A5 may allow it to run slightly quicker… We are, of course, working with Troughton-Smith to improve the Siri iPhone 4 port.”
Read more in the full article here.
You are not entitled to Siri from your iPhone 4, this is theft, and I hope that Apple shuts it down as fast as it can.
Clown
If respecting property rights makes me a clown, then hand me my big red nose, I shall wear it with pride.
Don’t be a dick. You’re free to do with your phone as you like, including jailbreaking. This is affirmed by the U.S. Copyrights Office.
http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-20011824-85.html
Yeah – he is free to open and dick with his phone. NOT reverse engineer software. Siri was originally made for the original iPHONE the project has been stopped since APPLE purchased the company. The legality on this is changed – SIRI is integrated and doing things on the IPHONE 4s specifically for that design. Hardware and Software together done right. NOT hacked. -WHAT this person does NEXT will ultimately CUSE him grief. HIS DICKING AROUND IS OVER.
This has nothing to do with penises, BLN. I never said anything about Jailbreaking in my post, why are you bringing up that straw man argument exactly?
This has to do with taking something without paying for it. If you don’t own an iPhone 4S, you did not pay for Siri, and have no right to have it. Installing it anyway is theft.
I believe WaterFalls was on your side. Read it again.
Actually El Guap (down below), he made a reference to who he was talking to – BLN – Ballmer’s Left Nut. So…
Let the hackers play a little. If it ends up working fairly well, then Apple might choose to extend Siri to the iPhone 4 (or not). Either way, Apple might learn something. And I don’t see it hurting Apple materially.
Anyone who really wants Siri will pony up for the 4S. The monthly costs are the same, so the total cost delta over two years is the difference in purchase price.
Get a life dude. We did buy the devices.
If its a technical issue then fine but if it’s just a case of Apple wanting users to upgrade then not cool. Apple can do wrong you know, they are not the everything and all to life. Just a company who makes tools and toys most of us here like and love.
If someone did this to Microsoft, the principle would be the same. The fact that this is theft has nothing to do with Apple whatsoever. And, no, Apple is not perfect, but that fact is not relevant.
I own my iP4, and porting over a feature from a next-gen phone is hardly ‘theft’. There’s an expression I read once, that I think applies to people like you:
“the ethical dwarf, posturing on the moral high ground, presents a ludicrous spectacle”
Now piss off and mind your own damned business.
Sorry I upset you with facts.
Sorry I upset you with facts.
“mind your own damned business.”
Crime is everyone’s business. If the only people that were allowed to deal with theft were the victims then we’d live in terrible society: think Escape from New York, or Mad Max. It’s everyone’s job to keep the rotten ill mannered miscreants from taking over.
Can you then explain why Apple sued Pystar out of existence? I believe their philosophy was that they could install Apple software on any device they desired. Not so. Where’s Pystar now?
I think it’s obvious why Siri is 4S-only”…and it’s probably temporary.
Anyone else notice that Siri has worked intermittently so far? That was ONLY with early 4S adopters!! Imagine how much worse it would have been if ALL iPhone users (or at least, all existing iPhone 4 users) were ALSO pounding Siri. I suspect that Airi will be “turned on” for 4 users soon, if not 3GS users.
Awesome! Now my wife won’t be so jealous of the S.
The A5 is much faster than the A4, not just because it’s dual core CPU versus a single core, but also because the GPU is 7x or so faster. Having a sluggish hack of Siri on the iPhone 4 doesn’t sound all that appealing to me, just get the 4S if you really want to use Siri.
OS X loves the GPU, I can only imagine that iOS does as well.
I’ll be watching this closely. All the iPhone 4S people are just pissed because us iPhone 4 people will get it without a new phone.
Actually, that makes the whole phone unusable. I’ll wait for the next iPhone
So damn slow and the interface is not the same.
Wasting your time man.
To the ONE who hacked SIRI to run on iPhone 4.
YOU HAVE OPENED THE DOOR to others to try this also. Soon, others will try – then possibly attempt it on ANDROID.
Remember YOU exposed this reverse engineering feat FIRST and should ULTIMATELY be responsible for your ACTIONs.
It will never work unless the cheating software will use iPhone 4S IDs instead of iPhone 4.
Apple’s Siri servers will simply deny service unless iPhone 4 will present itself with the fake iPhone 4S ID.
Yeah, people are working on that one too
Bold prediction here: this is going to be about as ‘sweet’ as a Hackintosh.
leave it to some moron to somehow reduce the users’ experience by making it more sluggish just for the sake of putting a more demanding app. Steve Jobs would be shaking his head.
Remember Siri is still in beta, one it is complete, Apple may roll it out the the iPhone 4 and iPad 1 & 2.
Its obvious that t runs like c**p with a single core proc. Thats why its only on the s. Not because of a gpu driver either. But this is 9 to 5 Mac where no lie is too big.
If there are GPU drivers in the Siri code then it would be rather critical (it seems to me). I could see this for some type of mathematical voice processing. To my mind this would be much more critical than just the 1 core vs 2 core issue.