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To: iggyl who wrote (12103)	11/3/2011 5:05:31 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

Siri goes down for iPhone 4S owners across the country November 3, 2011 \| Tom Cheredar venturebeat.com Siri, Apple’s new voice assistant feature for the iPhone 4S, is apparently suffering from an outage, which has rendered it useless for many iPhone owners. The outage began at around 11 am PST today. Siri isn’t just a simple piece of voice control software. To function properly, Siri must communicate with one of Apple’s servers for additional information. For example, when you ask Siri what the weather is like in Nashville, Tenn., it plays an elaborate game of telephone with a main database that has the information, and then updates you with the answer. This is precisely the reason jailbreaking the iPhone 4 and the iPad to run Siri is so difficult. We’re contacting Apple for additional information and will update you with what we find out. In the meantime, feel free to let us know if you’re experiencing the Siri outage by leaving a comment below. Update: We called Apple’s customer service number to find out more information. Despite toggling off the Wi-Fi and restarting the phone as they suggested, I was unable to get Siri to connect (not that I’m surprised). The Apple Care supervisor I spoke with said it’s entirely possible that it’s a network outage. Thanks to Armen over at iSmashphone for tipping us off.

To: iggyl who wrote (12103)	11/3/2011 5:09:15 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32692

I hear it will have two 2.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors... unfortunately they will have a 5 minute battery life... but if you are out in the wild you will be able to heat a cup of tea on your phone.