Moto X Touchless Controls Made Possible on the Nexus 5 [Video]

When the Moto X came out, we were all kind of tickled at the fact that you can talk your phone and have it obey a command without even hitting any buttons. Even better, was that the screen would be completely off, but you could awaken it by saying those simple words we all know. So before the Nexus 5 came about, some of us wondered if these touchless controls would be present in the new flagship. Sadly, they weren’t fully there, but you could still kind of do it as long as you were on your homescreen. Now it seems a crafty developer is making touchless controls possible on the Nexus 5.

Guillaume Lesniak posted a quick video showing off his Nexus 5 with touchless controls. The guy dissected that Snapdragon 800 processor, and found that he could make this happen by tapping into Qualcomm’s QDSP6V5 low-power DSP core. Now some of you might think this would cause excessive battery drain, but this is a separate core from the cores used to operate the apps. So really, this will not impact the battery that much.

You got to love it when developers use those smart brains of theirs to make our devices better. Check out the brief video below of the controls in action.

Source: Phandroid