Tech journalists have giddily been playing with the iPhone 4S, and the reviews are in. Many give praise-laden shout-outs to Siri, the iPhone's new voice-controlled personal assistant. Among other things, you can tell Siri to add items to your calendar or to-do list, find restaurants nearby, or call one of your contacts. Is Siri revolutionary?
Yes. Siri is incredible: "Siri on the iPhone is a life changer, and this is only the beginning," says Brian X. Chen at Wired. Voice-powered interfaces are the future. I told Siri I was drunk, and it asked if it could call a cab. Sure, Siri has its limits (like not being able to create new contacts or understand your every whim), but "the list of what Siri can already do is quite long, and this is a great start… It's kind of like having the unpaid intern of my dreams at my beck and call, organizing my life for me."
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