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The iPhone’s silent mode isn’t “silent enough” for many people. If you hold your beloved smartphone on a hard surface, it will create a rattling noise often times more disruptive than a normal audible tone. To prevent this annoyance, Apple is patenting a new way that will make future iPhones “more silent.”
The company’s patent application shows us the way Cupertino folks envision this. The phone will monitor audible sound levels generated by a phone’s vibrator and adjust the [vibrating] mechanism accordingly, even shutting down vibrations completely and replacing it with smooth audible tones.
The filing covers two types of haptic devices, or vibrators, used in modern smartphones – rotating and oscillating linear vibrators. Devices using the former vibrator have an eccentric weight attached to a spinning drive shaft, while the latter method relies on magnetic force to drive a weight back and forth…
It’s unclear when the first iPhone sporting this technology will be unveiled, but boy, do we find the vibration annoying from time to time…
[Via: AppleInsider]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
