Gadgetory

Ceri is your intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking what is the weather like today here's the forecast for today it is that easy the exact words I say aren't important it's the meaning behind the words so I could ask this in a completely different way do I need a raincoat today it sure looks like rain today read my message new message from Phil Schiller when can we have lunch so it reads it hands-free to me you can reply or read it again so before I reply I think I want to have lunch on Friday hands-free now I can just ask Siri about my calendar I can ask it do I have any meetings Friday at noon you don't have anything on your calendar for this Friday at 12 p.m. fantastic so let me go ahead and reply to Phil now that I can make it reply I can do Friday here's your reply to Phil Schiller remind me to call my wife when I leave work here's your reminder for when you leave work shall I create it sure let's confirm that okay I'll remind you so again in an earlier conversation to ask me who my wife was and now it knows and so I just say you know remind me about my wife it's now set up a geofence around work in this case Apple for me when I leave Apple it'll put up an alert reminding me to call my wife now here's all the sorts of things you can do with Siri you can voice dial so call someone just by saying their name you can control your music you can control playing you an artist or an album but now you can also play any song you want including any song you might have in iTunes in the cloud you know download it and start playing it for you or even a genre you can say please you play some rap music for me play some classical music and automatically start playing that for you you can use it for messages send and receive text messages I messages you can manage your calendar now with your voice scheduled meetings check check on meetings move meetings around cancel meetings all just with your voice it's integrated with reminders as you saw and with maps you can ask for traffic and directions email you can compose and dictate emails right to Siri you can ask questions about the weather and about stocks where the clock there's a lot of things you can do in addition to things like the alarm clock you can set timers so let's say you're you stick something in the oven you're gonna bake it need to take it out in 30 minutes just take your phone and ask Siri to set a timer for 30 minutes and you're done you can look up things for contacts you can create notes you can search the web you can search Wikipedia and all the other questions you can ask of Wolfram Alpha it is absolutely flow away