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Published 5/28/2009 by Brooke Crothers at CNET News - Business Tech
When your iPhone's screen automatically reorients itself, it's using a nascent silicon technology slated to become a $1.7 billion market by 2013.
Apple uses an accelerometer to reorient the iPhone's screen (Credit: Apple)
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