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I loved it when my phone had IR. I really hate it when restaurants have tvs on in the dining room. I would turn the volume down or even turn it off. I really miss being able to do that.
Most Chinese brand phones like oppo and Xiaomi still has it as standard.
I use it to control my air conditioning all the time.
I wonder if that’s why phones no longer have IR blasters.
Phones don’t have IR blasters anymore for the same reason they don’t have aux ports or SD card slots anymore. For one, they remove these features to make room for other things that take up the real estate of a thin slice of technology. And for two, cutting those things increases the profit margin of the phones they sell, even if only slightly.
They also removed radio capabilities. Rip the days I would listen to live radio at 2 am while I washed dishes at chili’s.
i still have redmi note 4 with one
fully controllable with an api tooI had that phone for like 4 months and loved it! Unfortunately the police stole it when the house I was living in was raided… it was a good phone, I spent quite lot of hours researching which to get and decided that would be the best.
you had the snapdragon one right?
I’m pretty sure it was the Helio series one? How come
I used to have so much fun back when cell phones had IR blasters. Changing channels and messing with people before it was common knowledge that you could do that on a cell. I wish phones still had that.
Back in the day when they were actually focused on putting features into phones instead of stripping them out…
RIP FM antennas, too.
used to have a FM tuner on the modem. International models do still carry modems with FM tuners on them. And the antenna was you headphone cord. Which is why it doesnt and won’t work with Bluetooth… And for all likely hood it won’t work with USB c headphones either
Oh man my LG V20 was great for this
So you’re the reason I find my TV turned on in the morning.
I’m going to find you. I will bill you for the power, and I will additionally calculate the cost of screen burn mileage on my TV. You will pay.
Connect your TV power cable to an outlet or splitter with a switch, turn the switch off every time you won’t watch tv for long. Enjoy 90% defense against remotejackers and 1% higher calorie burn bonus.
