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Title: Apple's new Maps patent guides your car around cell phone dead spots
Post by: HCK on March 05, 2015, 09:00:19 pm
Apple's new Maps patent guides your car around cell phone dead spots

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Every day when I drive over the Bay Bridge, I lose my wireless signal, just briefly. This is the firstest of first-world problems, and some days I don’t notice, but often I’m streaming music on a shuffle, and the track tries to change, and it just…can’t. It’s super annoying.</p><p>
Driving around the entire San Francisco Bay is obviously not an option, but if Apple follows through on a patent (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;d=PALL&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;s1=8972170.PN.&amp;OS=PN/8972170&amp;RS=PN/8972170) it received Tuesday, someday your Apple in-dash navigation system could steer you in the direction of a strong wireless signal, so you never lose touch.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2892959/apples-new-maps-patent-guides-your-car-around-cell-phone-dead-spots.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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