Date: 2011-10-28 21:59:08 Created: 2011-10-28 17:35:34
I knew I would be upgrading, but I did not expect it to be today. And even if I had expected that, I would not have expected it to be this easy. In stock, no line, all in the store a minute's walk from the office. There and back, iPhone 4S in hand, in ten minutes. A little bit too easy, a little bit to low key, to feel quite real.
All I am waiting for now is the actual SIM card to be activated. I wonder if the guy in the store screwed up somehow.
But then, calling is not exactly the main thing I use my phones for. I can bear using my old phone for that just a while longer. I have all this dictation to play with, plus the whole new world that the extra speed and screen sharpness brings.
The mandatory playing with Siri has lived up to the expectations set by others. I was a bit surprised that Siri will not open apps for me, or even show me my location on a map. But I was happy with just how well doing unit and currency conversion (backed by Wolfram alpha) worked. And setting alarms and timers by speaking is somehow … fun.
I asked how much wood a woodchuck would chuck if it could. Not only did Siri provide a good and fun answer, the answer was so instantaneous it felt hard coded somehow. It felt much faster than anything else I asked. No way something that long could have made it to a server, be processed and come back that fast. Siri also answered "correctly" concerning the Answer, but it had to make the roundtrip to mr. Wolfram to fetch it.
Dictation results for text input has been a bit mixed, but it works well enough to excite me as much as Siri on its own. I am not sure why, but the thought of reasonably accurate dictation appeals a lot to me all of a sudden.
I might even stand doing it in public.
Of course, I have snapped a few quick photos as well.
There will be more, oh yes …