A 12-year-old boy was subjected to an obscene tirade by a new iPhone when he tested out its new voice technology in a supermarket, according to reports.
Charlie Le Quesne was trying out the iPhone 4S at a Tesco store in Coventry when it told him: Shut the f*** up, you ugly t***.
The boy had been using the phone's Siri system ââ¬â which answers spoken questions ââ¬â and had asked it: How many people are there in the world?
His mother Kim, 39, a nursery worker, told The Sun: The phone was a demo version and was low enough on the shelf for Charlie to have a go with it. He asked it a simple question and we couldn't believe the filth it came out with.
I thought I must be hearing things. So we asked again and the same four-letter stuff blared out.
I asked for the manager and after staff heard it they agreed to unplug it. I couldn't see the funny side.
Staff told her that someone had tampered with the phone's set-up instructions.
The Siri system addresses the phone's user by name ââ¬â using information entered in its contact system.
But someone had entered the obscene seven-word phrase as the user's name, so the phone blurted it out when it answered a question.
Tesco said: We have launched an investigation. The handset will be going back to Apple for diagnostic tests.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...oftware-tells-boy-12-to-shut-up-in-Tesco.html
Charlie Le Quesne was trying out the iPhone 4S at a Tesco store in Coventry when it told him: Shut the f*** up, you ugly t***.
The boy had been using the phone's Siri system ââ¬â which answers spoken questions ââ¬â and had asked it: How many people are there in the world?
His mother Kim, 39, a nursery worker, told The Sun: The phone was a demo version and was low enough on the shelf for Charlie to have a go with it. He asked it a simple question and we couldn't believe the filth it came out with.
I thought I must be hearing things. So we asked again and the same four-letter stuff blared out.
I asked for the manager and after staff heard it they agreed to unplug it. I couldn't see the funny side.
Staff told her that someone had tampered with the phone's set-up instructions.
The Siri system addresses the phone's user by name ââ¬â using information entered in its contact system.
But someone had entered the obscene seven-word phrase as the user's name, so the phone blurted it out when it answered a question.
Tesco said: We have launched an investigation. The handset will be going back to Apple for diagnostic tests.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...oftware-tells-boy-12-to-shut-up-in-Tesco.html
