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What's the point of "Hey Siri" when it only works when you're connected to power
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they advertise on the reviews that the iPhone 6 plus gets 2 days battery life and it's 2015 and they come out with a feature that only works while PLUGGED IN? lol that's hysterical. I thought they all had awesome battery life!?
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I think when your laying in Bed it's useful. I charge my phone next to my bed. So I can go
"Hey Siri, How's the weather"
and she will tell me.
All without getting up
you can't move ur hand over 3 feet and grab ur phone?
this sounds like the pointless "wireless charging" where it sits on a pad. too lazy to stick the plug in the bottom? haha
No, my nightstand has my ipad power cable. I plug the phone in the living room. But if I'm on the couch or something I can just talk to siri.
The addition of most any powerful and interesting feature would degrade battery life, such is the way of electronics. This is why battery life for smartphones hasn't improved significantly over the years. They've been locked in a race between increasing functionality, and energy efficiency. The balance seems to have been struck at around a day of battery life, since most people have become accustomed to daily charging.
Apple could have implemented a low power voice processor to achieve the hands free Siri without needing external power or significantly degrading battery life. When the feature was announced at WWDC, I predicted that Apple would put such a chip in the new iDevices, otherwise the feature seemed a bit half-assed. I think they just don't have room for it between the thinness and trying to stuff bigger batteries in. Maybe
watch can do this?^^ This. They've made improvements to Siri in regards to bBuetooth connectivity (at least when paired with my system) in the car. Prior to this, holding the home button to activate Siri didn't play nicely with my car's Bluetooth system - that being on numerous occasions, the car's Bluetooth system would connect immediately when holding the button down, but disconnect before Siri was ready to listen to me (indicated by the beep). This was quite frustrating. With the new "Hey Siri" feature, you don't have to wait for it to listen, as it immediately starts transcribing what you're saying real time, independent of the Bluetooth connection.
Hmmm mine is turned on but it's not working? I have to slide to unlock, put in my code and then when I say Hey Siri, it works. Does the phone have to be unlocked? or can it be done while the phone is "sleeping" or in the "locked" position?
Do you dare pick up your phone just right when you've gotten out of the shower?
I set an alarm, sent a text message, checked the current weather, brushed my hair and all that pretty much all at the same time this morning.
I set an alarm, sent a text message, checked the current weather, brushed my hair and all that pretty much all at the same time this morning.
Oh really? wow, this sounds good.
This feature caught me off guard. I was a little ticked at my car makers sluggish response to Carplay, but this may be a possible workaround.
My nav system is great, but it could use this, that's for sure.
Technically the Android way of thinking was that would kill the battery so they incorporate a very low power processor that can handle that without being a burden on the battery. While they were at it they decided to also incorporate a way that it would only activate to you the owners voice, not everyone's. At least it's that way with the moto x.
Some other devices work similar to the iPhone.
Now we are bashing other products for doing things in an obviously better way than apple?
re: ALWAYS LISTENING.
In order for it to work, it has to be ALWAYS LISTENING. Otherwise, how would it know when to respond? Hint - to respond to something, it has to hear something.
Yes?
In order for it to work, it has to be ALWAYS LISTENING. Otherwise, how would it know when to respond? Hint - to respond to something, it has to hear something.
Yes?
Yeah, it works much better now... before it was a constant struggle... my car's bluetooth connection would initiate when holding down the home button to activate Siri, but also deactivate the connection if there was silence or Siri had finished responding to a request... the delay appeared to be centered around the bluetooth connection causing Siri to hear nothing and closing out. Anyhow, I all but stopped using it because of this since it was so hit or miss.... been using it since the iOS 8 GM came out without issue.
This would be my preference either way. You must not go on long road-trips. My iPhone 5 runs used to run my car media experience, serving as a wifi hotspot, bluetooth sound output, running Maps for directions and the screen is pretty much on the whole time.
On a drive up to Chicago from Austin TX, that means at least 12 hours of work in one day. My battery was kaput easily by that point, so I'd rather have it plugged in to not continually drain the battery. Also, I'd rather not have someone say "Hey Siri" when the phone is on silent in my pocket as a school teacher. I'd keep that option in the "off" setting for being on battery, either way
It works OK for me but I wish it could bring up google maps when I ask to navigate home?
From one office I visit, the traffic is bad, but google is pretty good at getting me the right option to get me home quickest.
Apple maps still lags behind in terms of accuracy of searching by some way for my usage...
From one office I visit, the traffic is bad, but google is pretty good at getting me the right option to get me home quickest.
Apple maps still lags behind in terms of accuracy of searching by some way for my usage...
Battery would be a big problem having to constantly analyse everything the microphone picks up for the magic words. You'd have a process running constantly chewing on CPU and battery. But I wouldn't expect non-techy people to consider this as the reason why a feature they might like has been disabled when not connected to power.
I wonder also if it works out and about on battery, someone yells Hey Siri on the street, other iPhones being carried nearby could all detect that and start responding to commands?
It doesn't have to. Motorola does this right by using a low power processor to listen. Apple could have done the same but didn't.
Battery would be a big problem having to constantly analyse everything the microphone picks up for the magic words. You'd have a process running constantly chewing on CPU and battery. But I wouldn't expect non-techy people to consider this as the reason why a feature they might like has been disabled when not connected to power.
I wonder also if it works out and about on battery, someone yells Hey Siri on the street, other iPhones being carried nearby could all detect that and start responding to commands?
I can't get multiple iOS devices to respond on a "yell" but speaking normally they do, albeit they require being plugged in.
Been nice if they did voice recognition like the Moto X.
In the end I just have it disabled since my Siri use doesn't require hands free activation. Plus other people have already been activating it while using theirs adding appointments to my calendar.
The bigger requirement is due to the battery use that would result in it always being on. What you mentioned is secondary reasoning at best, if that was even truly a consideration, since there's no issue with someone charging their phone at work or somewhere public and someone doing what you mentioned.