Ifared TV remote on smartphones

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With all the technology being added to these phones and things that people barely use, when are phones going to start being able to be a TV remote controller via a simple infared bulb? It seems inevitable that phones will eventually be able to do this, but why hasn't it caught on yet? That would be a very cool feature. A smart remote with preset channels and history of the last few channels you were watching, etc... developers could have a lot of fun with this too... like maybe an app that has input of when a show goes to commercial so it can automatically switch between two shows during commercials or something

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