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New workaround helps keep Siri running on jailbroken iPhone 4

Jailbreak hacker “chpwn” has developed a new tool that helps iPhone 4 users run Siri, Apple’s mobile “personal assistant,” on jailbroken devices. His new software, called Spire, claims to avoid copyright issues associated with earlier Siri hacks and improves privacy by allowing users to specify their own proxy server to handle communication between an iPhone 4 and Apple’s servers.

Apple still considers Siri a beta feature, so it’s possible that Apple wanted to reduce the number of variables in testing the service by having it run on a single platform—i.e. the iPhone 4S. Despite this, iOS hackers were able to reverse engineer how Siri communicates with Apple’s servers for the necessary speech-to-text conversion and get it running on an iPhone 4.

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Review: Apple iPhone 4S

REVIEW:

Apple’s iPhone is something of a phenomenon.

Not only is it a smartphone that Apple fans covet with a passion, but it’s a device that even people who know little about gadgets and technology want to own.

I have used iPhones in the past, but have never been a committed Apple fanatic, despite owning an iPod Touch for years.

I also don’t gush about everything that Apple does, nor do I rave about the latest features to appear in iTunes.

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