Breaking news from my
swamp home country The Netherlands: the
Dutch court has just banned the sales of all Galaxy S, SII and Ace smartphones in the entire European Union. The judge has ruled that Android 2.x violates Apple's 868 patent which covers scrolling through photos on a touchscreen. Only this one patent is violated - the complaints about two other patents as well as the design patents has been thrown out. In other words, the judge did not agree with Apple that Samsung is copying Apple's design. The injunction only covers the Galaxy smartphones, since they run Android 2.x; Android 3.0 does not violate the patent in question, and hence, sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 can continue. In fact, only the Gallery application violates the patent in question, and Samsung
has already stated it is going to replace this application on all new Galaxy smartphones from now on - sales won't even be interrupted. In other words - two patents thrown out, design stuff rejected, and only one patent complaint upheld which will cause no harm to Samsung. Apple just scored a meaningless victory. The Dutch court order is
here. The pictures speak thousands of words.
Member since:
2009-05-19
A) That is NOT Android core feature. Samsung TouchWiz != Android.
B) Android 2.3 responce to bounceback is the highlight effect, it's as visually indicative as the bounceback effect. The bounceback effect is just bling from a certain point.
C) Again, different != inferior. Apple however really tries to convince that their is superior and different is inferior.
D) The Nexus line does exactly what it does, tries to come up with best solution differently. And so far, I've not seen a phone working radically better then my Nexus S. iPhone4 or any of the WP7 phones are pretty much the same in performance...