Correct. Moto X has a special chip that uses almost zero battery to listen for voice commands. They introduced the feature two years ago. I think Apple product development takes 3 years so maybe it's still in the works for iPhone 6s. A lot of us thought Apple would do this for the iPhone 6 but then we also thought we'd get 2 gigs ram lol. Anyway I'm still happy with the new Siri functionality. Siri has really, for the first time, become useful in iOS8. Siri has come into her own.
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Hey Siri works even when iPhone isn't charging.
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Correct. Moto X has a special chip that uses almost zero battery to listen for voice commands. They introduced the feature two years ago. I think Apple product development takes 3 years so maybe it's still in the works for iPhone 6s. A lot of us thought Apple would do this for the iPhone 6 but then we also thought we'd get 2 gigs ram lol. Anyway I'm still happy with the new Siri functionality. Siri has really, for the first time, become useful in iOS8. Siri has come into her own.
I thought Siri was inferior to Google Now.
What do you think is most useful about Siri? I know the "what song is this" is pretty nice, also telling her a restaurant name quickly to find the phone number
Some Android phones will allow you to say 'Okay Google' and Google now will respond as long as the screen is on. The Moto x is unique in that screen can be either on or off. That's my understanding of it anyway.
I couldn't reproduce this in 8.1 (beta 1 or 2), so either it was a bug and they fixed it, or it's a bug in the 8.1 betas so far.
This also works in 8.2--or whatever the last update was the initiated Apple Pay. I decided to try it out randomly, after I had already spoken to Siri. The only difference when doing this without being plugged up is that you have to immediately say your command:
"Hey, Siri, call my mom." But if you just say, "Hey, Siri" and then expect her to still be listening, it will tell you to say "Hey Siri" and then the command.
"Hey, Siri, call my mom." But if you just say, "Hey, Siri" and then expect her to still be listening, it will tell you to say "Hey Siri" and then the command.
Yes I havd already tried it on 8.0 also .. I never thought ppl didn't know about this otherwise I would have posted it long time ago#
Yes I havd already tried it on 8.0 also .. I never thought ppl didn't know about this otherwise I would have posted it long time ago
I thought so too but I figured I would post anyways
