Apple has Siri, Android gets Iris

iPhone 4S users are boasting about the ability to speak to their phones and the ability of their handsets to speak back to them. This new feature may have

October 25, 2011 / 10:00 IST

iPhone 4S users are boasting about the ability to speak to their phones and the ability of their handsets to speak back to them. This new feature may have left a few Android users, dare I say, envious of their iOS counterparts. Google’s Andy Rubin at AsiaD said that smartphone users should talk to people and not their handsets basically making fun of Apple’s new Siri software. However, a bunch of Android developers named Dexetra have created ‘Iris,’ an Android version of the highlighted feature of the iPhone 4S.

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first published: Oct 25, 2011 09:51 am

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