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.

[–] almost1337@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Oh man my LG V20 was great for this

[–] Chev@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

There are still ways to do that. A friend of mine loves to mess woth Telas. He can open their charging door with a device.

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Long before smartphones, Casio used to make an IR blaster watch. Nobody ever suspected the person checking the time was messing with the TV.

[–] CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

When the teacher took your watch at the beginning of class it was either test time or tv cart time.

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Back in the day when they were actually focused on putting features into phones instead of stripping them out...

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

RIP headphone jack 🫡

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Swappable batteries was the big one for me

[–] lucario_owo@yiffit.net 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Redmi line still has ir transmitters afaik

[–] Dfy@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I confirm. The kid in me made me buy it