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Microsoft patents smacking your phone to make it shut up. Subby is sure he saw prior art for this in the toy section at Wal-Mart yesterday
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BizarreMan
2012-09-16 10:53:51 AM
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How is this different from my android phone sensing that I have picked it up or moved it, and silencing the ring because it's on the way to my face?
Mugato
2012-09-16 08:22:33 AM
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Well it's not stupider than patenting rounded corners.
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