It is possible to run S Voice which is the Samsung equivalent of Siri for iPhones, on a Galaxy Tab 10.1. S Voice, like Siri, is an app that takes voice commands and does various things. I would not rate it as a robust app (on the Galaxy Tab) but at least its available if anyone wants to try it.
I downloaded it from a forum at xda-developers.com. The file is called signed-voicetalk2.apk Note that there are other versions of S Voice (also called Voicetalk) floating around on the Web but they are likely not to work unless they’ve been modified, as the above version has, to trick the app into thinking its running on a Galaxy SIII phone.
One thing I really found annoying about it – you can ask it what is the weather but the answer it gives is just displayed on the screen. It would be nice if it would actually speak the weather.
Unfortuantely the set alarm function will not work on the Galaxy Tab 10.1.
On a side note, I came across a very cool site, phonearena.com, which allows one to do side-by-side comparisions of specifications for different models of mobile devices. Right now the Fujitsu Stylistic M532 is the lightest 10 inch tablet on the market at 560 g. If I were to get a new tablet tomorrow, I’d be inclined to either get the Fujitsu or else the Asus Transformer Prime.
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