‘Siri’ hidden feature in a new iPhone 5 concept

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London: As speculation about the Apple iPhone 5 continues to mount there is a lot of talk about new features and specs the phone may have and also what sort of design Apple will come up with.**The video created by AatmaStudio imagines Apple’s artificial intelligence programme Siri disabling an iPhone by cracking its screen after wrong password is entered three times in a row. The assumption is that this of course renders the phone useless to the thief.Wondering what about your data on the smartphone? After the three unuccessfult strikes, Siri quickly transfers your data to your iTunes account; and goes on to wipe out all your information on the phone. You will be notified on iTunes, where according to the site valuewalk.com, the iPhone data recovery is now available only to you. The Siri then amusingly in all courteousness says goodbye before exterminating the iPhone.The video titled “Siri Hidden Feature on iPhone 5″ comes from the same team which also made concept videos on ‘iPad 3′. Earlier this year, the company unveiled a video that had a 3D multiplayer hologram for gaming, a feature that allows a movie to be displayed across two connected iPad screens at the same time, thus enlarging the screen size.The iPhone 5 concept video was uploaded on YouTube on April 27 and, as of April 30, had gained over 288,690 views.

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Re: ‘Siri’ hidden feature in a new iPhone 5 concept

Blackberry's have been erasing data after 10 unsuccessful attempts for years.

iPhones do it too but in an annoying manner, after 2 or 3 unsuccessful attempts the phone locks out for a few minutes before another unlock can be attempted, i think at attempt #9, the lockout period is 1hr which is silly because if you don't know your password then apple is simply wasting your time and is just adding to your 'downtime'.

The part about uploading data to iCloud is interesting and I'll have to wait to see how the feature is rolled out but here's my take on why it's not a good feature. If your phone is lost, you have probably already called your carrier and have had your account suspended or switched to another sim so the data network would be unavailable to the iPhone and wifi is probably unavilable to the phone as well unless apple plans on displaying a message on the phone asking the thief to select a wifi network to connect to so it can upload data and erase the phone.