This feels like old news. When news breaks in chunks like this, it tends to feel a lot less fresh.
We?ve seen multiple times a private port of Siri to unsupported iOS 5 devices.
TODAY IT?S LEGAL AND EASY
However, today Chpwn and Ryan Petrich went public today with a Siri port called Spire.
The port mirrors all the iPhone 4S Siri functionality and works on the jailbroken iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, third generation iPod touch, fourth generation iPod touch, and first generation iPad.
Don?t get your hopes up on the iPod Touch though. The microphones in those devices tend to be less powerful, and make for a poor Siri experience.
Spire is available free on the Cydia jailbroken application market, and the download comes in at approximately 100mb, according to a blog post from Chpwn. The developers recommend that users connect to a Wi-Fi network for downloading, not a standard cellular network, because of the large file size.
?Spire uses a new method to obtain the files necessary for Siri, so it doesn?t have the copyright issues encountered by previous attempts,? said Chpwn
YOU STILL NEED AN iPHONE 4S
Of course, with any port of this kind, there will be a caveat: you have to still gain authorization through your own server and an iPhone 4S. Chpwn explained the issue:
However, Spire is not a complete solution. Apple still requires authorization to use Siri, so information from an iPhone 4S is still required. To insert this information, Spire allows you to enter your own proxy server address. By using this (ancient) SiriProxy fork, you can setup a proxy using your own iPhone 4S to insert the needed information reasonably easily. Other solutions for proxying Siri will be listed here as they are developed ? perhaps that sort of proxy might be included in the main SiriProxy repository.
Long story short, you can absolutely get Siri working on your iPhone 4 in a fully legal way. You just need to convince your best friend with an iPhone 4S to let you use their ?halo-connection? with Siri.
?Until the iPhone 4S is jailbroken, this is the best Siri port,? said Steven Troughton-Smith, ?when the iPhone 4S is jailbroken, then we can avoid the proxy server issues.? Spire can be downloaded from this link, if you are on a jailbroken iOS 5 devices.
Update: The iPhone Dev team posted an update to their redsn0w jailbreak. You can now jailbreak any non-A5 device untethered (meaning you can reboot the device without hooking it back up to a computer). This of course, makes this Siri news a lot bigger.
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