iPhone hackers are an unrelenting bunch. Only a week after the first successful port of Siri’s Voice Dictation feature to the iPhone 4 and 3GS, Siri0us, got taken down, a new Siri hack has appeared.
A package known as ‘H1Siri’ has appeared on Cydia, the App Store for Jailbroken iPhones and other Apple gadgets. It’s currently early days but from what we can tell, the H1Siri package allows you to install Siri in an almost fully functional state on an iPhone 4 or iPod Touch 4th gen.
You can currently download H1Siri from one of two repositories on Cydia – http://cydia.be or iphone3gsystem.fr/cydia, which you can simply add to your list of Sources on the Cydia store.
The package is over 100MB in size, so is going to take up a fair chunk of storage space on your iDevice, so make sure if you’re going to attempt to install it, to be connected to Wi-Fi first. At present nobody is really sure of exactly how much data H1Siri uses either, as it most likely uses alternative methods to connect to Apple’s servers, instead of the low-data method that Siri uses officially on the iPhone 4S.
A video has been posted on YouTube to demonstrate Siri working pretty flawlessly on an iPhone 4. The user in the demo shows Siri making an appointment, checking the time and finding locations. Check it out at the bottom of the page.
We suspect that the creator of H1Siri has cleverly routed the Siri service to a proxy port, which effectively tricks the iPhone and Siri app into thinking it is sending requests to Apple’s official server, when in fact it isn’t.
If you’re feeling very brave and you have a Jailbroken iPhone 4 or iPod Touch 4th Gen, then you can follow the instructions below to give H1Siri a go. Be warned, this hack is not authorised by Apple and at the moment users have reported that service is unreliable, which is potentially due to the number of people trying to use it at once.
If you’ve tried out H1Siri, we’d love to know how you’re getting on with it, so let us know by commenting below.
UPDATE: Several outlets are reporting that H1Siri was never intended to be released to the public, which is why the server that it uses has continually crashed due to an unprecendented demand.
MobileCrunch also reports that the information used by H1Siri infringes on Apple’s copyrights, therefore making the hack illegal.
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Source: iClarified