Siri app turns your GPS-enabled iPhone into a virtual concierge

The Siri iPhone app wants to make getting dinner reservations or concert tickets as easy going to a concierge: all you have to do is open the app, tell it what you want, and it’ll arrange the rest.

For example, say you’re in New York City for an important business trip, and, after an evening of drinks with your colleagues, you all decide — as one sometimes does — that you want to go to a concert… specifically, by an industrial metal band specializing in sadomasochist leitmotifs.

All you’d do in that case is launch the Siri app and say, “Get me tickets for four to the next Genitorturers concert.” And that’s it. Siri will automatically identify your location through GOPS, then search its partners including OpenTable, MovieTickets, StubHub, CitySearch and TaxiMagic for the show.

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Neat stuff, but knowing how finicky voice recognition can still be, using Siri might be less like getting your evening sorted through a concierge than screaming into the hearing horn of a shell-shocked veteran. You can grab it for free through the App Store.

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Kavok
I just installed this on my phone, and I have to say that it is a resource hog. My poor 3G had to be reboot just to get out of the app, and even that took forever to get the phone to register the fact I wanted to shut it down. Not sure what the problem is, but it seems to stem from the internet access and GPS. I love the concept and hope that they can iron out the bugs.
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Vaclav Nikdo
Just try saying “Genitorturers” and see if Siri understands you …. just try. Siri is good but it has a way to go.