One of the requirements of using Siri on the iPhone 4S is that you have some sort of a data connection. This could be either a wireless or 3G connection to the Internet. The reason for this is that everything you say is packaged up and sent to Apple so that it can process your voice and then tell the iPhone 4S how it needs to respond… this is of course a very simple way of explaining how Siri works.

As it requires your data plan in some instances, one thing you might want to watch out for is how much data each question takes. Thankfully, someone has done all the hard work and has managed to calculate an average of how much data per query.

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If you have asked Siri to tell you a story on your iPhone 4S, you would have been responded to with the same few answers over and over again. But, we learn today that if you nag enough it will eventually give in and tell you one.

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A new version of the Android Market is beginning to be pushed out to smartphones. The new version is 3.3.11 and it brings a few new features to the market.

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Garage Band for the iPad has received an update. Amongst a few tweaks, another feature added is iPhone and iPod touch support. For those that already have purchased Garage Band on the iPad, you’ll now be able to download it to your iPhone as it is now a universal app.

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We’ve heard quite a bit about the iPhone 4S having problems since launch. The main problem identified was the issue of the battery being killed quite quickly. Some users reportedly cannot get through the business day without having to plug in around 3pm. Now that the battery issue seems to have settled down a bit thanks to what appears to be a bug found in the time sync and locations settings, we now hear that the 4S also has an echo problem when using wired headsets.

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Apple is about to launch the iPhone 4S in Hong Kong and South Korea. The latest generation smartphone will be released on November 11 with pre-orders beginning on November 4.

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Nokia has announced that the release date for the Nokia Lumia 800 is November 16 in the UK. The price is expected to be €420 although this hasn’t been confirmed yet. That of course is the SIM free price.

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The HTC Sensation XL with Beats Audio is now available in the UK unlocked and SIM free. The device has a 4.7 inch scratch resistant display and runs a 1.5GHz processor.

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HTC has launched its first 4G smartphone on the AT&T network. The new device is the HTC Vivid which comes with Android 2.3.4 installed.

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Google [GOOG] will soon launch a native Gmail app for the iPhone. The new app will allow users to interact with email on their device as an app rather than via the Safari mobile interface.

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Samsung announced on an earnings call last week that in 2012 the company will begin to put flexible screens in to smartphones.

“The flexible display we are looking to introduce sometime in 2012, hopefully the earlier part. The application probably will start from the handset side.”

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Apple [AAPL] has released three new iPhone 4S ads for TV in the US. The new ads show a few of the 4S key features such as Siri, iCloud and photos.

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