How Apple moved the conversation from iPhone 4 death-touch to industry-wide death-grip
One of the greatest tricks Apple pulled off at the iPhone 4 press conference was changing the dialog from death-touch — a single point of antenna trouble on iPhone 4 — to death-grip — a device-wide point of antenna trouble faced by the entire industry.
Apple for their part did cop to making iPhone 4’s point [...]
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HTC responds to Apple over antennagate
HTC’s Eric Lin has responded in statistical fashion to Apple’s iPhone 4 press conference where Steve Jobs showed off a Droid Eris losing singnal when death-gripped:
“Approximately .016% of customers [have complained]. We have had very few complaints about signal or antenna problems on the Eris”.
Which could also just mean there hasn’t been the [...]
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HTC counter-sues Apple, claims 5 patents infringed
HTC has just announced that they’re counter-suing Apple for infringement, claiming Apple treads on 5 specific HTC patents.
“As the innovator of the original Windows Mobile PocketPC Phone Edition in 2002 and the first Android smartphone in 2008, HTC believes the industry should be driven by healthy competition and innovation that offer consumers [...]
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Microsoft says Android violates its patents as well, HTC pays up
Apple has sued HTC for patent infringement with Android almost certainly being the target, now it turns out Microsoft believes Android also infringes on their patents and HTC has just paid up.
That means the free-as-in-Google smartphone OS isn’t free anymore — it’s just Microsoft who’s getting the money for it, and from the maker of [...]
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Verizon Android Incredible vs iPhone
Our sibling site Android Central has just published a full review of the Verizon Droid Incredible — the latest Google superphone Android competition to the iPhone. (And yes, it does seem like they’re coming more than once a month now — we feel bad for Phil!).
It’s pretty much a gussied-up Nexus One with Sense UI, [...]
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