Everything You Need To Know About The New iOS 6 Siri

The new iPhone certainly made waves in the last couple of months. People were ecstatic about the new processor inside, expanded RAM, to say nothing of the new features. But what Apple made it clear was the fact that Siri was the poster child of this new launch. Everyone is talking about Siri, the personal assistant that does what you ask of it.
Before the new iPhone 5, Siri worked only on the iPhone 4S but it had a few caveats that needed to be addressed. For one, Siri did not work well worldwide (in the sense that the queries made in countries other than the US didn’t behave well) and secondly it wasn’t available on any other device. This changed with the new iOS 6. Siri is now available on the iPhone 5, iPad 3 and the iPod Touch currently at the fifth generation. Siri now works well worldwide and is better, stronger, faster.

The personal assistant can now deal with movies and sports and can gather data from various sources. It can even read out, make and alter notes, update you Facebook status and post a tweet in your place. To get started  remember that you must first activate Siri.

So you like watching movies. Siri does too!

Your new personal assistant is really into movies. It can work with the Rotten Tomatoes movie database to pull out ratings and data concerning your movies. It can also recommend what movies you should watch and offer you information about the movies you are currently interested into. So if you ask Siri who the director of Titanic is or what movies Twentieth Century Fox released recently, the iOS personal assistant will let you know in a jiffy.

Siri likes food

Did you know that with Siri you can also find more about food? Places to eat to be exact, as Siri now can make restaurant recommendations and even reserver a table for you. Given Siri uses Yelp and Open Table you can find out details about prices, get directions to the nearest restaurant or find out where that Indian food place was.

Siri, how about sports?

If you are a sports fan and you were before glued to the TV to see results and matches, you can find out more about them by using Siri. The iOS 6 personal assistant pulls such information as player details, player records, schedules and fixtures. There’s currently a limit concerning available sport, with baseball, football, soccer, hockey and basketball in the lead, but more will soon probably follow.

Siri and the Social Network

We’re not talking about the movie here – we’ve covered Siri and movies already; instead we’ll let you know that Siri can also use Facebook and Twitter in the sense that it can read out loud your notifications and post status messages on your behalf. It can even let you know if you have any messages on Facebook, how many are there, who sent them and what they read.

To use Twitter, you only have to clearly speak out the word “Tweet” followed by a phrase and that phrase will be posted to your Twitter account. Say “Post to Facebook” and whatever you speak next will be posted directly to your Facebook wall.

A rainbow of languages and dialects

On the iPhone 4S, Siri knew how to speak English, German, French and Japanese. Now there’s a new list of languages and different dialects and locales: English (US, UK and Australian), Spanish (US), Japanese, German, French, Canadian French, Cantonese, Korean, Mandarin, two types of Italian and both German and French Swiss.

This kind of sums it up for the new Siri. new languages, new features, connectivity in a lot of domains and the ability to command written text in a variety of applications.
You can use Siri while driving your car and at the same time post messages on Facebook. You can find restaurants easily, find out what movie rolls in the cinema next week and do it in your native language.

Open Apps Using Siri

With the new iOS 6 and Siri you have the option to launch applications using verbal commands. No more digging through the Home screen and submenus, searching for folders and using Spotlight. Just speak into the microphone and the app will launch without the need of touching a single button. All you have to have is the app installed and you will also need to know its name. Install the application into your iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone using the App Store ore iTunes and Siri will take care of all the rest.

1. Hold the hardware Home button to allow Siri to launch.
2. You can tell Siri to open Facebook or Twitter.
3. If you didn’t speak out loud the complete name of the app, Siri will display a list of applications that have the fragment you spoke as part of their names.
4. Speak the complete name of the app by reading it from the list.
5. Siri will launch the application for you.