Why don’t Snapdragon 800 phones support Moto-X-style listen-from-standby?

When Motorola’s Moto X first launched, I remember not being too enthusiastic about the phone’s “Touchless Control” feature – the ability that, among other things, let the user interact with the handset using voice commands even when the phone was in standby mode. I think a lot of my objection at the time was formed around a knee-jerk reaction to what seemed to me (at least on first glance) a pretty unsavory idea: that of your phone perpetually monitoring what you say. But in the months ...

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