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hey guys it's Brandon Minuteman front pocketnow.com is Siri on the iPhone 4s useful well let's ask her Siri are you useful she doesn't know what I mean let's talk about Syria so this is gonna be kind of an editorial video where I'm going to talk about how Siri works in my life and how it really doesn't work in my life whether Siri will work for you will be determined by what kind of environments you find yourself in and what kinds of things you do with your phone so to start I should say that I don't like talking to a phone when I use an Android phone I seldom use the voice to text feature because I'm either in a loud environment I don't want people to around me to know what I'm saying it's rude for me to talk to my phone when I'm around other people or the technology isn't that good because I can't speak naturally sometimes I have to speak like a robot the same applies to Siri there are very limited use case scenarios when I can actually use it when I'm by myself at the office I can use it when I'm at home I can use it but if I'm in any social social situation when I want to use it most when I want to remind myself of something or when I want to make an appointment I can't use it because I'm in a loud environment or I don't want to seem kind of rude in front of all my friends or whomever I'm with now Siri holds a lot of promise and there's some really cool use case scenarios that I think we're going to see in the future when the technology gets better but for now let's talk about what Siri can do and I'll come back and tell you about some of those really cool things where I think Siri is going in the future okay so let's talk about some of the really cool ways you can use Siri I think number one coolest way you can use Siri Siri is with geofence 'it's so Siri knows that I'm brand the minimun it knows where I live and knows where I work so I can tell it to remind me to do something when I get home or when I get to work let's check it out remind me to call my wife when I get home here's your reminder for when you get home as you can see be quite sorry as you can see it says call my wife and it says a rival home and it will literally when you get within the area of your home as specified by the content that you've associated with Siri it will alert you to call your wife I mean that is such cool technology another great use for Siri is making calendar appointments so let's try that schedule a call with Bob tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. okay here's your meeting note that you already have an all-day meeting about my seals birthday for tomorrow 7:00 so it knows what's on your calendar already and it looks for conflicts on your calendar which is really cool you can move meetings if you want you can you can delete a meeting even if you want so let's do some other things with Siri Siri can really understand human ways of asking for things like should I wear my raincoat tonight and it gives you the hourly forecast which is super cool it knows where you are it's pulling the weather very cool use of Siri let's ask it something else some some general source of a piece of information how tall is the Empire State Building it could be faster that's one problems for you there we go Empire State Building this is from Wolfram Alpha down there you can see that or let's ask it what time is it in Beijing now of course you can go to Google and you can type this stuff into Google it's a little bit faster asking Siri now it is awkward if you're doing this while you're at a restaurant and you're really trying to find out what time it is in China you can under the table you know type what time is it in China and Google you can't open up your phone take your phone in front of everybody and say what time is it in China it's just sort of a use case scenario thing you have to be in the right setting to be able to use Siri there's a lot of other stuff that Siri does in fact if you tap and hold you click the I here are the things you can do you can call people you can play music you can send a text message it taps into the native SMS application but it doesn't tap into say Twitter or Google Voice or anything like that you can set up meetings you can set reminders probably one of the coolest usages usages it's not a word probably not you can get directions on how to get home it taps into the email app the weather app the stocks up all the default built in Apple made applications again there are no there's no third-party app support yet but that's probably coming you can make notes which is really cool you could do a web search and you can use Wolfram Alfre to come up with statistical information one of the coolest uses beyond reminders is this notes so let's let's do one of those note that my wife's birthday is April 14th hopefully you don't forget that noted okay so it noted it now let's go into the notes application and see what we have there it is 108 p.m. a note so you can dictate notes imagine you're driving by yourself and people aren't around you and you have a brilliant idea well you can use Siri to tap into the notes application to take a note or to remind you to do something so a lot of personal information management functions can be carried out with Siri and and that's pretty much it right now great in a lot of situations but in some situations just not very useful and the technology isn't really that good to where it's incredible and and hopefully it's going that way now that we've talked about things that Siri can do today let's talk about the things that Siri might and probably should be able to do in the future really cool uses of artificial intelligence a mention Siri being smart enough to have a conversation with a human a real real-time conversation that's not you know you have to wait a minute and then it converts it sends it up to the cloud it sends it down gives you an answer real-time conversation where it can actually understand logic throughout not just one or two exchanges but three four or five exchanges great example it cell Siri to make you a restaurant reservation PF Changs 7:00 p.m. tonight Siri knows where you live so it knows that the F trend should go - it knows how many people you have in your party and it calls PF Changs for you has a conversation with the hostess and makes the reservation this stuff is totally possible maybe not with today's technology but technology that's not too far off or what if Siri could tap into third-party apps and this is something that is most likely coming so for example you have an amazon.com app and Siri taps into that so you say Siri buy the Microsoft quiet key keyboard have it sent to my office and Siri knows your credit card information it knows your login it ties into Amazon and boom it places the order for you or even Twitter or Facebook you can send updates to Twitter or Facebook it knows how to integrate with Twitter and Facebook or maybe even Kindle applications so your iBooks in the case of an iOS device so you can say Siri download me super freakonomics and boom moments later it's paid for it it's ready to read on your home screen a lot of great uses coming for Siri in the future we hope that's probably the vision for Apple it will understand you're buying preferences where you live what you like it will be able to have a conversation a real human conversation and the possibilities are really endless so right now Siri is a kind of useful in some situations but generally not useful in my opinion but in the future it's going to get really interesting so tell us what you think series should be used for and where you hope the technology is going if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and thanks for watching that's it for now