The iPhone 4S has dominated the news this week now that 4 million people purchased one last weekend and I know that many, many more purchased one during the past five days. Siri, especially, has dominated the news.
- Leanna Lofte of TiPb explains how to teach Siri on an iPhone 4S how to pronounce your name.
- Or you can just tell Siri to call you something else. New York attorney Nikki Black writes on her Legal iPad blog that she instructed her iPhone 4S to call her "Sexy Mama."
- Mississippi attorney Tom Freeland tells the strange tale of his iPhone 4 talking to him and stopping him from unlocking his phone.
- Lex Friedman of Macworld reports that there will soon be a fourth U.S. carrier carrying the iPhone: C Spire Wireless, which provide service to Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Florida.
- ALM (which publishes The American Lawyer) is conducting a survey of attorneys who use mobile technology such as the iPhone and iPad. I took it, and it only took a few minutes. If you want to participate, click here.
- Jeff Calson of TidBITS describes some of the secret features of iOS 5.
- Jim Rhoades provides advice on dictating to your iPhone 4S based on his experience with Dragon Dictation.
- Arnold Kim of MacRumors reports that some AT&T iPhone 4S users are seeing download speeds of up to 7.71 Mbps. In New Orleans, I'm seeing speeds up to around 6.5 Mbps.
- Sam Biddle of Gizmodo provides some video proof that the iPhone 4S takes awesome videos.
- Geoffrey Fowler of the Wall Street Journal provides some interesting background information on Siri, including a note that it is now one of the largest software teams within Apple.
- Now that the iPhone 4S has been out for a week, we are seeing more reviews. Here are some good ones: Rene Ritchie at TiPb; Jon Fingas of MacNN;
- You can use Siri on an iPhone 4S even if the screen is locked. However, if you want to disable this for security reasons, Roman Loyola of Macworld explains how to do so.
- Apple has started running TV commercials for Siri. Here is the first one.
- And finally, Jonathan Mann recorded this music video of him and Siri singing a duet:
