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RIM sort of takes on iOS5 Siri with Vlingo Plus

Published on Monday, November 7th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Another free app – if you can find it

One of the key ingredients of Apple’s iOS5 upgrade was the introduction of Siri – described as a personal assistant. Well, RIM may just be tackling Siri head on with the introduction of the Vlingo app as one of its set of complimentary apps. This ‘virtual assistant’ app isn’t new. However, it’s been described as worth $19.99 but now represents the fifth of RIM’s free Thank You Gift set of apps. That’s if you can actually find it. GoMo News had trouble locating this app but got there eventually. Continue reading →

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