It sounds like a boon for arcade owners, who won't have to manually inspect each machine, but Apple seems to think differently.

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That way, the system doesn't have to be manually cleaned.

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Pre-programmed cleaning cycles allow consumers to choose between floor-only cleaning or floor, wall and waterline cleaning, a necessary chore that many pool owners just don't want to do manually.

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This led to delays, because they couldn't be produced as fast manually as by computer, so NATS was forced to reduce the number of flights entering and leaving U.K. airspace.

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For starters, if you search for a restaurant on your phone, you can send it to your navigator so that you don't have to enter the address manually (and we all know how annoying that is).

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The phone defaults to Wi-Fi but will place the call over Sprint if it decides the Wi-Fi connection isn't good enough, or if you manually choose cellular.

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Southwest lets you plug in your info manually, while American won't even allow that.

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The Loop is updated automatically every 15 minutes (which isn't adjustable), though it can be manually forced to refresh as well.

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Turn-by-turn navigation doesn't provide a night mode, customizable map layers or manually specified rerouting.

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Another drawback: While other Android phones I've tested can be plugged into either a PC or a Mac so you can manually transfer files onto them, I couldn't get the Note to do this with either of two Macs I tested with it.

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