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White iPhone 4 Antenna and Proximity Sensor Tested
Italian tech blog iSpazio has already posted one of the web’s first unboxing videos, and now they’ve followed that up with another video showcasing the white iPhone 4’s potential issues, if any. Among...
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Two iPhones Going Into Space to Help Conduct Research
As if the iPhone 4 needed any more publicity, the device is about to get some intergalactic marketing. Cult of Mac is reporting that a pair of iPhone 4s running research software are headed for the...
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Dialer Shield: Stop Accidental Screen Presses While Talking on Your iPhone
It’s no secret that jailbreaking has made owning iDevices more enjoyable. If there is something that you don’t like about your iPhone or iPad, chances are that the jailbreak community has a utility or...
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How to Unlock Your Mac With Your iPhone
Imagine walking up to your Mac computer and watching it unlock on its own as you approached it. I’m not talking about retina or fingerprint scanners. I’m talking about Bluetooth proximity. If you have...
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iPhone Smart Cover Concept Video [Updated]
So I was messing around with Ryan Petrich’s VoiceKeys tweak a while ago, and stumbled upon a revelation: The tweak’s proximity sensor feature, coupled with my BookBook case makes for an almost iPad 2...
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ITC drops Motorola’s complaint against Apple over proximity sensor patent
Apple’s patent troubles with the struggling handset maker has largely been viewed as a proxy fight with Google, which acquired Motorola Mobility along with its vast patent portfolio in August 2011 for...
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Ensure your iPhone’s screen stays dim during phone calls with DimInCall
Have you ever been in the middle of a phone call on your iPhone and noticed your cheek was pressing buttons? Sure, there’s a proximity sensor there that’s supposed to keep this from happening. But any...
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Apple patents auto iPhone volume based on proximity
Wouldn’t it be great if the iPhone could detect when you are holding the handset to your ear or sitting on a desk, automatically adjusting the volume? Apple thought so, as well. Tuesday, the U.S....
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WaveOff: toggle your iPhone’s screen with a wave gesture
If you own a jailbroken iPhone, you can now toggle its screen on and off using a simple wave gesture. WaveOff, a tweak released yesterday on Cydia’s BigBoss repo, allows end users to move their hands...
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Faster Facebook Messenger with improved scrolling now available
It’s been over a month since we’ve stumbled upon any solid piece of news concerning Facebook’s standalone Messenger iPhone app. Last time we heard, Facebook has added the ability to pick photos from...
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How to emulate the iPhone’s Sleep button with the proximity sensor
SleekSleep is a recently released jailbreak tweak that allows you to emulate a press of the sleep button by means of the iPhone’s proximity sensor. This basically means that you can sleep or wake your...
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FaceOff 7 is the sensor-based equivalent of Activator for iPhone
When the Moto X was announced last year, I was admittedly somewhat jealous of its various sensor-based contextual awareness and voice recognition features. In layman’s terms, the handset is one of the...
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How to use the iPhone’s proximity sensor as an Activator gesture
ProximityActivator is a recently released tweak that adds a new proximity sensor gesture to your list of Activator gestures. This makes it possible to perform certain actions simply by waving your...
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Apple’s smudge-detection patent prevents an iPhone screen from accidentally...
When you bring up an iPhone to your ear to take or receive a phone call, the handset taps the built-in proximity sensor near the ear piece to detect that you’re holding your phone up and then turns...
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ProximityLock lets you lock your iPhone with its proximity sensor
Those of you still rocking a jailbreak despite these dry last few weeks have some new jailbreak tweaks to check out this weekend. One of those is ProximityLock, which is a new freebie that lets you...
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Wave2Wake lets you lock & unlock your iPhone with its proximity sensor
Every iPhone has a proximity sensor at the top that helps turn off the display whenever you have your phone close to your face during a phone call, and utilizing that sensor for other purposes is...
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New Apple patent would embed light sensors into the display, hints at iPhone...
The United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) today awarded Apple a patent describing a process for embedding light-sensing sensors into a mobile display. The invention, titled “Electronic...
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PocketProtector prevents accidental butt-dials on jailbroken iPhones
A new jailbreak tweak called PocketProtector can help prevent unwanted butt-dials and inadvertent smartphone operation while unlocked in your pocket.
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Some of the best sensor-based jailbreak tweaks for iOS 14
In this roundup, iDB shows you some of the best jailbreak tweaks for utilizing the sensors on your jailbroken iOS 14 device.
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Reasons why Apple is moving the iPhone 15’s proximity sensor to the Dynamic...
Aside from manufacturing and cost-cutting purposes, fitting a proximity sensor into the iPhone 15's Dynamic Island could have other benefits.
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