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Cortana Can Now Replace Google Now On Android Devices

Posted by timothy on from the heterodox-approach dept.

The Verge reports that Microsoft's Cortana can now be used (at least for beta testers) as a drop-in replacement for the Google Now assistant on Android devices; that means users can select launching Cortana as their default on-board assistant, and launch it by holding down the device's home key. However, notes the article, "The update version still doesn't include 'Hey Cortana' support, largely because of hardware limitations that prevent Cortana from always listening for the command."

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  1. Re:Yay! by Dracos · · Score: 0, Troll

    How much you wanna bet Cortana is just a branded front end for Siri? You know, like how Bing used to scrape Google for results?