The phone's body and screen are virtually identical to the iPhone 4, though it receives some significant internal spec bumps and a virtual "intelligent assistant" named Siri.

Apple introduced the technology along with the iPhone 4S this fall and billed it as a "virtual intelligent assistant."

Siri is an intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator which works as an application on supported devices.

Since Apple launched her two weeks ago, it has become clear that Siri is an "intelligent personal assistant" of many talents.

Their first product is an intelligent personal assistant for Android devices released to the Google Play store on September 11, 2012.

By the time Nell had been a fortnight in the cottage, she had become a most intelligent and zealous assistant to old Madge.

His stories also include several detective story characters, such as the loyal but less intelligent assistant, a role for which Dr Watson has become the archetype.

I need one reasona-bly intelligent assistant, if you have one.

By adding techniques developed by artificial intelligence researchers, computer scientists believe that the daemon programs will increasingly evolve into intelligent assistants.

Google Now, the intelligent personal assistant introduced in Android 4.1, was also updated.