14 DAY TRIAL // Developer Eric Day has come up with a cool hack that puts Siri on your old-gen iDevice without breaking the law (or at least without breaking the law too much). The process does require a jailbreak and, according to Day, no key iPhone 4S files are used.
The developer in question has uploaded a jailbreak package to Cydia called Siri0us. It’s described as a “Siri dictation for your iOS 5 devices. No iPhone 4S keys/files required.”
According to the people at iDownloadBlog, it’s actually a Nuance-based hack that replicates the Siri Dictation function from the iPhone 4S, complete with similar graphics.
The app is ad supported, and it works with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPod touch 4G. Early iPad tests indicate that Siri0us does not support Apple’s 10-inch tablet computers.
To get your Dictation on, simply jailbreak your iDevice and add http://apt.if0rce.com to your list of Cydia sources and search for “Siri0us,” according to Day.
He does warn that Sir0us has a few bugs, one of which will cause the device to keep respringing. If this happens, Day says do not restore. Instead, users are supposed to employ a SSH tool which removes a file located at the following destination: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AssistantServices.framework.
Hackers have been trying to port Siri to older-generation devices since day one of the iPhone 4S launch, but none of the solutions that have been released are exactly legal.
Siri0us appears to be the best next thing for those looking to have spoken word translated into text on their iPhones.
Unfortunately, Sir0us doesn't deliver other popular Siri functions, like checking out the weather locally or thousands of miles away, or asking about all kinds of interesting stuff, like the dinosaurs and the universe etc.