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I search more on my Android compared to my (former) iPhone but as my Galaxy S4 ages it has becoming increasingly slow to open the search app and slow to open the browser. Sometimes I avoid searching entirely just because the latency is too much work and involves jumping between the search app and chrome/firefox.

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I'm curious but do you ever just search in the browser (skipping the separate search app)? I only ask because it never really occurs to me to use a second app to search when both Chrome and (my default) Firefox let you type in the URL bar to search directly. Same results, less steps and app switching.

I'm the same way. I'm on a galaxy s4 and I probably use the home screen search bar 2-3 times a week, Chrome search 4-5+ times a day.

For no discernable reason, I have never gotten into using voice commands for everything.

I do search in the browser and this is generally quicker although part of the reason I search more often is the search box widget that I have on every home screen. Lack of support for true widgets is really an unfortunate gap in the iPhone experience for me but I may switch back for the next two years anyway as I'm not really a fanboy in either direction.

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