The iPhone 4S’ Siri personal assistant program is you of the new smartphone’s headline features, but buyers outside of the US have been discovering certainly not all of the functionality is present. Currently - as we mentioned in our iPhone 4S review - Siri cannot access Maps to Yelp business functionality outside of the US, but according to Apple’s FAQ those services will be added “in additional countries come 2012.

The exact list of nations exactly where international support will be enabled isn’t known, though today Siri - which Apple describes as being in beta - is just available for US English, UK English, Australian English, French and German anyway. 2012 will bring support for additional languages, Apple additionally confirms, including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Italian as well as Spanish.

Without having the local functionality, many of Siri’s headline-grabbing features don’t currently work outside of the US. Asking your iPhone 4S to find nearby restaurants isn’t supported, as well as neither can the smartphone bring up business addresses as well as phone numbers.

Is this partial feature-set enough to make you reconsider your own iPhone 4S purchase intentions? Allow us know whether or not you re still planning on choosing up the phone in the comments.


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