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February 19th, 2013, 08:02 GMT · By

iOS 7 Siri Will Be Able to “Do a Lot of New Cool Stuff,” Source Says

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A source deemed as “very reliable” by iOSDoc reportedly revealed that Apple’s iPhone 5S would ship with an improved A7 processor, beefed up graphics and twice the memory of the iPhone 5, as well as iOS 7 with an enhanced version of Siri.

iOS 7 is pretty much a given this year. Apple rolls out a new version every year, and 2013 is when the seventh major release of the software should occur.

The software will reportedly come pre-installed on the iPhone 5S, a revision to the iPhone 5 launching this year, according to most rumors.

The source cited by iOSDoc said that “The iPhone 5S will come with a new quad-core Apple A7 processor, clocked at 1.2Ghz and iOS 7.”

Speaking about the phone’s underlying software in particular, the source added that “iOS 7 will also come with a highly improved Siri, able to ‘do a lot of new cool stuff’,” according to the report.

The source declined to elaborate more on the matter, leaving the site to speculate that iOS 7 should deliver a bunch of new features, like widgets and an improved Notification Center. This, however, is pure speculation on the site’s part.

Should Apple intend to announce iOS 7 at WWDC 2013, we might be in for a third iPhone launch scheduled for the fall season.

However, if analysts are correct about Apple launching the iPhone 5S in summer, we should be hearing that developers are getting the first iOS 7 betas in the coming months.

In addition to the logical tweaks and improvements, iOS 7 is expected to come with an overhauled interface. The rumored change is attributed to Jonathan Ive, the newly instated head of Human Interface at Apple.


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Comment #1 by: AlikMalix on 28 Feb 2013, 10:23 UTC reply to this comment

I dont care for the "Widgets", bigger screen, even a notification improvement, removable batteries, memory cards, or any other crap that android has - I'm sick of hearing it. If I wanted Apple to play catch-up with android, I'll buy an android. I like my phone to be a pick-up-and-go as it were since my first and current 3GS. I like the current layout, the way springboard lets me find anything on my phone within a second, and I hope J. Ive does not get rid of skeuomorphism completely but improves on it. The only thing I'm asking design wise, is let me remove icons (or disable them) off the springboard. You already do with iTunes and Music apps. Oh and let icons show real weather or clock show real time or photos show last photo taken. Skeuomorphism is what sets iDevices from other generic screens. It effortlessly/subconsciously tells me what app I'm using.

What I am looking forward to is to replace my 3GS with a 5S/6 (whichever has the same screen as iPhone 5). I'm really interested in what Siri can be made to do. So far my Google search app does better searches or understands what i'm looking for. But Siri does do more for me as an ASSISTANT. I want Siri to be more of an Assistant then the android's search bot "Google Now". Siri should be function first, search second. I want siri to toggle settings too - no need for * widgets. I dont mind her robotic voice regardless of the Google's better speech bot, but it'll be nice if she had a British accent.
Also Siri could have more follow-up questions like "Would you like anything else to that reminder/note/text."
I also want Apple to fix a few crashing issues with the e-mail on iCloud - love that thing - so clean.

And because I cant afford a Mac, I'd love to have iCloud integrated software on my PC (like iTunes) so that I wouldn't have to go thru my browser and log in.

LAST THING: PLEASE, Please ship your new phones with lightning port conversion piece - you will win some hearts with that little piece already included. Oh and to really win over android's offerings, ship the new iDevices with Pages, Numbers, iMovie. This will automatically proclaim that iPhone can do Spredsheet/Excel, Letters/Documents/MSWord, and Edit Movies.

Basically Apple should be what it does best - minimalistic design, and let us clutter it up if we want. But seriously think about Siri in British accent.

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