Google's latest patent lets you talk on your smartphone upside down

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A new Google patent aims to help those of us struggling to tell a smartphone's top from its bottom.The patent outlines a smartphone with both a microphone and speaker at each end, allowing someone to hold the device upside down and still be able to talk normally.Gyroscope or accelerometer sensors inside the device would detect the phone's orientation, allowing it to activate the correct speaker and microphone for how the handset is held at any given time.

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Lol, that happens a lot with my father's phone. I appreciate the idea.
Does anyone else feel that a phone with that feature will look a bit werd?

 

[loveboy_lion]

It wouldn't be weird if it doesn't have any buttons

 

[Ink]

Solution: Design a phone that is NOT horizontally symmetrical.


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