“Apple’s latest mobile software will bring more than just visual changes to its existing and next wave of customers,” Zack Whittaker writes for ZDNet.
“For 30 days, I ran a pre-release version of iOS 7 (which iteratively improved when newer updates were released and installed) on my iPhone 4S,” Whittaker writes. “Aside from a fresh lick of paint in the user interface department, iOS 7 packs in so many new features and functionality that it’s absurd to think that one lived without it for so long… It felt as though I had a brand new iPhone resting in the palm of my hand.”
Whittaker writes, “Siri’s beta tag was ripped off like a sticky band-aid: It’s refined and polished, and, above all else, it works. No longer is Siri frustrating to use — the intelligence assistant has ‘grown up’ to accommodate a vast array of different features and services, including hardware support. Its blurred façade and bright white text is easy to read and welcoming. And its responsive on-screen voice analyzer may be a little on the sci-fi side, but it responds and reacts instantly to your voice.”
Much more in the full review here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
Can hardly wait …..
Me either. What’s old in new again.
b5 kind of sneaks up on you – the difference between this and b1 are night and day. They’ve been fine tuning everything and it all finally feels great, not just siri (though that is awesome as well – particularly now that I can’t use 1 arm to type). This OS is going to impress a lot of the folks that trashed it before actually using it – it feels silky smooth…
I hope the new Siri can recognize my wife’s name. It’s a very common name, but because she spells it with an “e” at the end, Siri wants me to say it with an “ee” sound at the end. Oddly enough, when Siri reads her name back to me, it’s pronounced correctly.
I guess I should just train Siri to recognize “my wife”…
——RM
Change your wife’s name to Siri and feel the luv.
You can place the correct pronunciation under your wife’s name in contacts, and Siri should use that.
This is on purpose. Change Siri to the male voice and he’ll have no problems with your wife.
everyone is in for a pleasant surprise when you try siri on iOS 7. it’s awesome now and as the writer stated, it actually works.
agreed except ” Its blurred façade and bright white text” is NOT easy to read.
Yes it is.
Zack Whittaker? Why would anyone take him seriously?
DON’T USE IOS7 IT’S NOT OUT YET!