The patents also include wireless communication technologies and key smartphone technologies including wireless email, proximity sensing, software-application management, location-based services and multidevice synchronization.
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This is the same kind of multidevice nirvana Microsoft aimed for recently with its SmartGlass app for the Xbox 360 user and is, in fact, exactly what Apple was trying to do with the last iteration of Apple TV.
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