iPhone 4S's Siri Is a Bandwidth Guzzler

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'Siri's dirty little secret is that she's a bandwidth guzzler, the digital equivalent of a 10-miles-per-gallon Hummer H1.' A study by Arieso (http://www.arieso.com/news-article.html?id=89) shows that users of the iPhone 4S demand three times as much data as iPhone 3G users (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/apples-siri-threatens-to-damage-cellphone-service-for-all/2012/01/23/gIQAZ1O5TQ_story.html) and twice as much as iPhone 4 users, who were identified as the most demanding in a 2010 study. 'In all, Arieso says that the Siri-equipped iPhone 4S "appears to unleash data consumption behaviors that have no precedent.

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/01/28/0249204/iphone-4ss-siri-is-a-bandwidth-guzzler