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I think stuff like that depends on the launcher. Though I'm pretty sure even with TouchWiz and Nova Search (now Now) has always been a long press of the menu button.

 

For hardware buttons I do believe it's tied to the launcher since you can change what the long presses do. Haven't messed with it on virtual buttons though.

 

Apparently one way to speed up the response time of the home button on the S4 is to disable S-Voice so you use google services instead.

 

I'm actually a big fan of how it's handled on the virtual buttons on my N4. You swipe up on the home icon to go into Google Search/Now and then just say "Google" to start voice actions. Also allows for easy searching without voice of course.

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You have to do all of that to get rid of S-Voice and use the much better feature?

Does the S4 even have Google Now? That's like half the point of buying a new Android phone.

 

Also, in many aspects it's better than Siri, but Siri is better at more conversational commands. The number of commands is pretty huge these days.

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You can get to it a number of ways, it's basically Search but fancier. On my phone (Note) it's either via the long-press of menu key, the Search app icon on home or in draw, from the recent apps (holding down home key as you mentioned), via Search Bar added via launcher (I have it off), via home button (launcher dependant) or gestures. 

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You can get to it a number of ways, it's basically Search but fancier. On my phone (Note) it's either via the long-press of menu key, the Search app icon on home or in draw, from the recent apps (holding down home key as you mentioned), via Search Bar added via launcher (I have it off), via home button (launcher dependant) or gestures. 

 

Now that I think about it, I think the long press of the menu key was how I accesssed it on my EVO 3D. Though menu keys should not exist anymore.

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One thing I do like about Windows Phone is the way it handles games - they're all launched from within the games app which has the achievements and game requests in it (sounds like google's practically copied it wholesale, tbh) so they're not cluttering up your app list. It works really well.

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See launching apps from an app isn't really done thing with android, so that aspect ain't gonna be copied. But no doubt, especially coming in late to the game, the Play Games Services is going to be yanking elements from all over the place. The trick is if devs will hop on board. 

 

It wouldn't surprise me if it's not in competition with other phones (certainly not Windows Phone), but with other Android devices. You can get apps from other stores fine, but if the apps come wrapped up with Play Games and Google+ intergration it'll be a bit harder for devs to slap on Kindle or Ouya without a fair bit of a retrofit, thus might be less likely to.

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