Why don't I have Hey Cortana on my brand new Lumia 550?

[Windows Central Question]

why i dont have heyy cortana on my brand new lumia 550?

i dont have active the hey cortana on my lumia 550 windows 10.
do i hve to downgrade to lumia denim 8.1.1?

 

[charlatan1978]

Re: why i dont have heyy cortana on my brand new lumia 550?

The Lumia 550 doesn't support 'Hey Cortana'.
Only the Lumia 930, 1520 and the new 950/XL support it.

 

[Zulfigar]

Re: why i dont have heyy cortana on my brand new lumia 550?

The reason for that is because of "Active Listening," which the Snapdragon 800+ series of SoC's support. In other terms, it's a hardware thing.