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The iPhone 4S’s Siri feature has gotten a lot of attention over the past few weeks, but it seems like aspects of the way that Apple changed the new device to accomodate the voice-activated assistant just keep coming. Phone repair and teardown experts iFixit have a new video and blog post up about how the proximity sensor (the little lens above the speaker) in the iPhone 4S stays active constantly in an effort to detect when you have the device held up to your head. This is important because Siri will accept voice commands without you having to hold down the home button or activate it in any way if you simply hold it up to your ear as if you were making a call. (via The iPhone 4S uses an always-on IR beam for Siri’s head detection - The Next Web)