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	Fargus	2010-03-28 , 18:34
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Originally Posted by javispedro

Just putting the hole in the chassis must be more expensive than putting a proper IR receiver in there. I too have to wonder what was the idea behind this....

Using the speakers and mic to pass information as morse audio would have been cheap too: pointless in the current age but cheap.

The IR emitter is to allow the N900 to control legacy items, not to provide a seriously outdated protocol

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