iPhone 4S will not accept voice commands in Portuguese - R7

The voice command system Siri, one of the main news of the latest version of the iPhone, will not understand voice commands in Portuguese, according to Apple said on Thursday (1). The device will be released in Brazil on December 16.

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According to the company, the Siri is considered a program in the test phase (beta, in the jargon of technology). It accepts voice commands in English (with accents from Australia, UK and U.S.), French and German. There are no plans to move the system to accept the Portuguese.

Apple has not said whether the cell will be produced by the Foxconn plant in Jundiai. A spokesperson for Foxconn has denied rumors that pointed out that a phone was already being produced. The factory has no date to be inaugurated.

The operators did not reveal the price of the appliance or the cities will take place early releases.

All operators are making the registration of interested in buying the device on their websites.

Launched in October in some countries, the iPhone 4S was the record to sell Apple products. Brazil is included in the “third wave” of the iPhone launch 4S. Apple did not disclose the other countries that will receive the device. An operator of South Africa said in its official Twitter account that would commercialize the device from the 16th of December.

In addition to “personal assistant” that responds to voice commands, the smartphone features a faster processor and a more powerful camera than the previous version.

Weeks after the release of 4S, users criticized the battery of the phone that was offloading suddenly. Apple acknowledged the error and released an update that fixed the problem .

On the same day that the 4S version was released, Apple announced that the previous model, 4, begin being marketed with 8GB of memory. The four operators confirmed who are selling the product in their stores.

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