14 DAY TRIAL // iPhone and iPod touch owners worldwide can now install the iPhone 4S-exclusive Siri interface on their devices and use the service as advertised by Apple via a few nifty jailbreak tweaks.
Obviously the practice is not at all recommended, since the hack requires you to jailbreak your iPhone and download software that not only isn’t approved by Apple, it also doesn’t connect to Apple’s servers.
However, I believe Mac and iOS fans need to stay informed about the latest developments that concern the community, and this is clearly one of them.
As reported by several jailbreak-centric blogs today, H1Siri is out on Cydia and it enables the elusive Siri functionality for devices that normally should support the personal assistant which Apple heavily relies on as the key selling point for its newest iPhone model.
People looking to add the functionality to their iPhones and iPods need to jailbreak their device, add a new repository to Cydia (the jailbreak alternative to Apple’s App Store) and search for H1Siri to download it from there.
Once downloaded and installed, H1Siri will not be usable until the user accesses the General settings pane to actually toggle on the Siri assistant.
A reboot or two may also be required to make the hack work, with some early testers indicating that H1Siri doesn’t quite communicate with its creators’ servers as it should.
Yet some positive results have been recorded as well, and we can expect the developers of H1Siri to iron out all the bugs in the coming days.
I will not offer any links to any jailbreak guides and / or downloads (Google is your friend here), nor will I tell our readers where to get H1Siri, as this hack involves too many gimmicks for the regular user to handle.
iOS 5 jailbreaks are also ‘tethered’ at the moment, which makes this hack all the more complicated.