Donny Bahama
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I’m thinking about making the change from an iPhone 6 to a Moto g7 Power. I’m not too worried about the display quality or camera. Likewise, the various apps that I use - I’m sure they’ll be fine. My biggest concern is voice functionality. I use my phone for my mobile business, so I use these commands all the time...
“Directions to [contact name]” — Apple Maps often crashes on my way to my destination - especially if I don’t leave it running in the foreground.
“Remind me to call [name] when I leave here.”
“Create appointment [contact name] [date/time]” — Siri often borks this but I can say, “change the title” to fix it. Can I do that with an Android phone?
“Remind me to ______ when I get home”
“Create a new note in Evernote.” — I’ll use the new note to document the details of the service call I just finished. It would be great if I could say, “I’m not finished” or “add to note” - but I can’t do that now when Siri often cuts me off in mid-sentence (which happens a lot)
I also use voice commands to send text messages, hear text messages, and make phone calls. A couple things I can’t do now that I’d really like to be able to do are: 1) Say, “Call [name] on speaker” and 2) “Call [name] using Google Voice”. It would also be nice to be able to use voice commands to hear text messages and voicemails in Google Voice. Any chance there’s (much) better integration on an Android phone (since they’re both in the Google ecosystem)?
I also use a ton of keyboard shortcuts — I type in an abbreviation and it’s auto-replaced with a longer phrase. And I can add new ones fairly easily by telling Siri to “open keyboard settings”.
“Directions to [contact name]” — Apple Maps often crashes on my way to my destination - especially if I don’t leave it running in the foreground.
“Remind me to call [name] when I leave here.”
“Create appointment [contact name] [date/time]” — Siri often borks this but I can say, “change the title” to fix it. Can I do that with an Android phone?
“Remind me to ______ when I get home”
“Create a new note in Evernote.” — I’ll use the new note to document the details of the service call I just finished. It would be great if I could say, “I’m not finished” or “add to note” - but I can’t do that now when Siri often cuts me off in mid-sentence (which happens a lot)
I also use voice commands to send text messages, hear text messages, and make phone calls. A couple things I can’t do now that I’d really like to be able to do are: 1) Say, “Call [name] on speaker” and 2) “Call [name] using Google Voice”. It would also be nice to be able to use voice commands to hear text messages and voicemails in Google Voice. Any chance there’s (much) better integration on an Android phone (since they’re both in the Google ecosystem)?
I also use a ton of keyboard shortcuts — I type in an abbreviation and it’s auto-replaced with a longer phrase. And I can add new ones fairly easily by telling Siri to “open keyboard settings”.
