The iPhone 4S Is Not The Number One Smartphone In The World Anymore
Update: It has been noted that the figure below encompasses the major U.S. carriers only. Our argument is that if Samsung is number one everywhere else (China etc) it’s pretty difficult for Apple to have the top smartphone. When more refined figures appear we will update this with figures that show this. Ahhh that explains it. All the trolling trials and attempts to destroy Samsung’s image as a company. Honestly some of things Sammy did both before and leading up to the trial were not very wise... Read The Rest →
Samsung Brief Dismantles Heinous Apple Patent Claims, States The Facts
This is fascinating stuff so I thought I would share. A lot has been said about the legal wrangling between Apple and Samsung and as the case rages on BGR gave us an intimate look at what is going on inside this court case. Below are a series of quotes pulled directly from that legal brief and frankly Samsung destroys Apple’s ridiculous claims and provides plenty of evidence to support their own case against the Cupertino company. The truth is Samsung has been around a long time, invented a... Read The Rest →
Who Wants To See What Apple’s Cease And Desist Letter To Samsung Retailers Looks Like??
The other day I reported on Apple’s latest attempt to stop Samsung from selling it’s products here in the US here. After winning an injunction halting the sales of the Sammy’s Galaxy Nexus and the Galaxy Tab 10.1, Apple hit a roadblock when Samsung was able to start selling the devices again while an appeal when through the court system. So Apple’s next step was to send Cease and Desist letters to all the retailers who were still attempting to sell these products. iMore was sent a copy of this take... Read The Rest →
Could A Cross Licensing Deal Be Imminent? Samsung And Google Team Up To Fight Apple
9 to 5 Mac is reporting that Google and Samsung will team up and have a “game plan” to get more money out of Apple Inc for use of patented technologies. Of course this comes on the heels of the announcement that Apple has won a preliminary injunction banning both the original Galaxy Tab and the flagship device for Google”s latest versions of the Android OS the Galaxy Nexus. Cross licensing agreements are a fairly common method to settle these disputes and I think Google getting involved openly is... Read The Rest →
Apple Still Trolling: Files An Additional Complaint Against HTC With The ITC
Apple Inc. has filed an enforcement action at the U.S. International Trade Commission , seeking an emergency order that would block imports of HTC’s smartphones….again. The reason is the same “data tapping” feature covered in Apple’s patent 647 which has held since the early nineties but only recently has opted ot weild against HTC smartphones and tablets. This is an interesting turn of events as after the original ban of HTC products that kept the HTC EVO LTE and the HTC One X, which HTC informed AndroREV... Read The Rest →
HTC EVO LTE and One X Clear Customs
According to the Taipei Times a very reputable Tawainese News Organization HTC’s phones that were tied up in U.S. customs due to an ongoing patent dispute with Apple Inc. cleared customs and have now made their way into the market place via their respective carriers. In a statement to the Tawian Stock Exchange HTC had the following to say: “Some of our products have passed the review and have been delivered to our telecoms operators’ clients in the US,” The Article then goes on to specifically reference the embattled HTC... Read The Rest →
Judge Orders Apple And HTC To Talk It Out HTC EVO LTE Begins Moving
If you listen carefully you can hear the feint sound of those boxes beginning to move out of the Sprint/UPS warehouse as our favorite mole over at Inside Sprint Now is reporting that there is movement on those jailed EVO LTE handsets. In related news a judge is forcing Apple and HTC to talks in the meantime and an August 28 th date has been set for said discussions. Full details on this hearing can be found on FOSS Patents . So it looks like the word we got of... Read The Rest →
Sprint Confirms EVO LTE Delay, Conflicting Information And Confusion Abound
So the interwebs are abuzz right now about International Trade Commission and the U.S. Government stopping shipments of Sprint’s EVO 4G LTE (and the HTC One X for that matter) due to an wide ranging exclusion order Apple won against HTC back in December. Apple owns patent #5,946,647 which deals with hyper links in the messaging app and browser on Android devices (though this particular exclusion order specifically targets HTC probably due to the code used in Sense UI). HTC released a statement that can be found here in the report... Read The Rest →
EVO 4G LTE and HTC One X Delayed And Tied Up In Customs?…. Thank Apple
The U.S. Customs Office is enforcing an import delay on the HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G LTE due to alleged Apple patent infringement according to the Verge. Way back in December Apple won a wide ranging exclusion order against HTC devices because of Apple patent #5,946,647 which covers turning phone numbers and etc into actionable links. The ban was supposed to be delayed for HTC to get around the issue and remove the violations from their software. However if you have knowledge of Sense 4.0 you... Read The Rest →
Samsung And Apple To Have A Sit Down, End Disputes?
We have been covering the patent disputes between the various OEM’s for ages now. If you look i’d estimate 80 percent of those stories chronicle the specific patent war being waged between the top two smartphone makers in the world Samsung and Apple respectively. FOSS Patents is reporting the two have finally agreed to sit down and have a meeting. The meeting is scheduled to occur within the next 90 days, will be presided over by a judge and both parties will have attorneys present. The meeting is... Read The Rest →
Apple’s Claims Patently False ipad 3 IS NOT More Powerful Than Tegra 3
So Laptop mag finally put Apple’s claims that their A5X chip (manufactured by Samsung) found in the ipad 3 exceeds by four times the performance in NVIDIA’s quad core Tegra 3 processor. There is no better way to lend clairty to these things than independent benchmark testing. What did they find? That Apple’s claims are patently false, and yes the pun is totally intended in that headline. What would more powerful mean or more importantly what should more powerful mean? It should probably mean your processor actually has... Read The Rest →
Motorola (Googlerola) Rocks Apple, Request Big Payday For 3G technology
Readers of our blog know that Motorola won a pretty big injunction in German court regarding 3G/UMTS technology and the fact that every 3G enabled iphone to date has the technology on board. Fans of this blog know we’re totally on top of the deal that was struck that effectively makes Motorola a Google company and that was another one where we put it out there and people said I was crazy and then Google bought Motorola . We theorized back before the deal that the acquisition of Motorola... Read The Rest →
