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Siri now available on jailbroken iOS 5 devices, including iPhone 4

A fully functioning port of the iPhone 4S’s hyped Siri voice assistant is now available for almost all jailbroken Apple mobile devices and huzzah, it’s legal!

The somewhat gimmicky Siri assistant has been the focus of the iPhone 4S’s advertising campaign, and the feature is suspected to be helping fuel major sales for that device. But as the program only officially works on the iPhone 4S, other iPhone owners have been wanting to get in on the action. To date, the options have been either illegal or fairly technical in execution.

But now a new hack called Spire allows for almost any jailbroken iPhone or iPad to run the lusted-after Siri. Specifically, it allows Siri to work on a jailbroken iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, third-gen iPod touch, fourth-gen iPod touch and first-gen iPad.

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Companies hope to fulfill iPhone orders by Lunar New Year

Taiwan’s three major telecoms operators are hoping to fulfill their pre-orders for Apple Inc’s iPhone 4S before the Lunar New Year, traditionally a high-demand period.

Chunghwa Telecom Co (中華電信), the country’s largest mobile provider, said yesterday that Apple’s shipments of the new device to Chunghwa during the past two weeks were “much more” than those of the iPhone 4 sold last year, with a total of 210,000 potential buyers signing up for Chunghwa’s services.

“We hope consumers with pre-order certificates will get their phones before the Lunar New Year, but it depends on Apple maintaining sufficient supply during this period,” Hu Hsueh-hai (胡學海), Chunghwa’s marketing managing director, said by telephone.

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