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Android Gets a Siri-fighter

Posted June 19, 2012 7:20 AM

From CNET News:

Meet Robin, a natural language voice-activated navigator for Android that puts Siri on notice.

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06/19/2012 8:20 AM

Hope it manages better than the "you have one new e-mails" that my Galaxy keeps coming out with.

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06/19/2012 8:22 AM

Was Siri really ever a "fighter"? Most people I know with the 4S (myself included) have used Siri once or twice, and that's when we first got the phone. Now, I just consider it a gimicky little add-on that is wasting space on my phone.

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06/19/2012 10:37 AM

I have used SIRI on my 4S it to find places like airports and stuff.

I actually dropped my GPS maps like navigator when I had verizon before I switched to apple,

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06/19/2012 11:04 AM

"Hey! You can't say you're competing when we weren't even trying!" ~ Apple Fanboy
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06/19/2012 11:19 AM

Apple doesn't lose contests. It wins them, or it quits them because they are unfair.

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06/19/2012 1:19 PM

and if it can't win,

apple buys them.

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Will we now get an Android commercial like this?

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