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#690418 24-Sep-2012 09:44

I just ordered the iPhone 5 so looking forward to getting the full benefit of iOS as opposed to the less than full on the iPhone 4 I have now.

Well, as full as it can be in NZ anyway.

Are there any features such as dictation, Siri etc that are disabled due to the phone not speaking Nuzilland English?

And if so, can you re-enable them if you speak with a British accent? Or does it just understand you more often?

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#690421 24-Sep-2012 09:49

Siri can't find anything in NZ, but that's because Apple can't be bothered adding support for maps to it outside the Promised Land.

It also can't understand words like "Auckland" unless you speak with a butchered American accent.

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#690422 24-Sep-2012 09:50

Geektastic: I just ordered the iPhone 5 so looking forward to getting the full benefit of iOS as opposed to the less than full on the iPhone 4 I have now.

Well, as full as it can be in NZ anyway.

Are there any features such as dictation, Siri etc that are disabled due to the phone not speaking Nuzilland English?

And if so, can you re-enable them if you speak with a British accent? Or does it just understand you more often?

Re accents, it works well. It learns your voice and it does improve from not bad, to pretty accurately getting all the words right

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#690423 24-Sep-2012 09:50

I set Siri to Aussie English and dictation works fine, for me at least. And yes, you can choose any language Siri is available for currently, which is 19 in total, 4 of which are English 'dialects'.

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#690434 24-Sep-2012 09:54

My auto brightness doesn't seem to work. Toggle it on and off and no change. Might do a hard shutdown

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#690436 24-Sep-2012 09:54

Kyanar: Siri can't find anything in NZ, but that's because Apple can't be bothered adding support for maps to it outside the Promised Land.

It also can't understand words like "Auckland" unless you speak with a butchered American accent.

Does the maps support work in the UK?

There have been some hilarious reports re the mapping from there - like whole towns not being found, sat images used where the whole place is covered in cloud etc!

In a way, you would think that EU support would be more worthwhile to Apple than US support, as there are around 850 million potential customers in the EU compared to only 350 million in the USA.

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#690437 24-Sep-2012 10:01

After reinstalling iOS6, my battery life is back to 2 days. Had a problem with the battery life after the OTA update.

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#690482 24-Sep-2012 10:55

Pwned: After reinstalling iOS6, my battery life is back to 2 days. Had a problem with the battery life after the OTA update.

Reinstalling? Do tell - does this mean doing a restore from iTunes?

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#690776 24-Sep-2012 18:33

Pwned: The battery life on my iPhone 4 is shorter on iOS6, I used to get at least 2 days on 5.1.1 but after the update last night the battery only lasted a few hours and it's drained when I woke up this morning. Wish I never updated to this version. Oh Apple...

To fix fast draining battery click settings , general , cellular , scroll down to "use cellular for: turn all off.
battery life should be better than ios5 :)

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#690833 24-Sep-2012 20:57

JimmyC: I set Siri to Aussie English and dictation works fine, for me at least. And yes, you can choose any language Siri is available for currently, which is 19 in total, 4 of which are English 'dialects'.

I set mine to UK as I find that I can imitate a British accent quite easily, whereas I sound a bit husky with an Australian accent. The adaptive nature of it works quite well - the accuracy was dreadful when I first started using it but now it has even learned to recognise my friend's cat's name 'Hendrix'. Unfortunately it will always have trouble with some homonyms such as 'mints' vs 'mince'.

On another subject I am very pleased that the reminders feature now carries over due dates from Exchange Server. I use the task list in Outlook extensively to manage my workload and it's good to be able to see what I have to do today, tomorrow, etc.

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#690841 24-Sep-2012 21:12

alasta:
I set mine to UK as I find that I can imitate a British accent quite easily, whereas I sound a bit husky with an Australian accent. The adaptive nature of it works quite well - the accuracy was dreadful when I first started using it but now it has even learned to recognise my friend's cat's name 'Hendrix'. Unfortunately it will always have trouble with some homonyms such as 'mints' vs 'mince'.

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I talk normal, as in Kiwi. Wasnt bad to start with, I tailored my speaking with any trcky words she wont get but these days it is very accurate, surprisingly so.

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#690947 25-Sep-2012 09:19

Kyanar:
Pwned: After reinstalling iOS6, my battery life is back to 2 days. Had a problem with the battery life after the OTA update.

Reinstalling? Do tell - does this mean doing a restore from iTunes?

Yes. I downloaded the full iOS6 firmware and installed it using iTunes.

@1yippy1 I tried turning off all those unnecessary features, still draining faster than normal.

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#691074 25-Sep-2012 12:27

Upgraded to iOS 6 on iPhone 4 and now I've got the mail app telling me that I have two more unread emails when I haven't. ie. When I have 2 it says 4 etc. Anyone else have this or read about it anywhere?

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#691378 25-Sep-2012 21:46

mattyb: Upgraded to iOS 6 on iPhone 4 and now I've got the mail app telling me that I have two more unread emails when I haven't. ie. When I have 2 it says 4 etc. Anyone else have this or read about it anywhere?

That's something I have had intermittently for months on iOS5 as I am still on iOS6

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#691928 26-Sep-2012 21:50

One annoying problem that I have noticed over the last few days is that I'm occasionally having to fight my iPad to get it to wake from sleep. Pressing the home button multiple times over a period of ten seconds or so seems to eventually get it started, but I'll have to look into it further over the weekend as it's starting to drive me mad.

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