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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 04, 2012
It was a hell of a way to end the day, and a hell of a way to wake up. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus has been "banned." As of this morning, the holiest of holy days Americans can celebrate outs...
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 04, 2012
As smartphone legal battles continue in the courts, HTC has reason to celebrate over Apple, if only momentarily. U.K. Judge Christopher Floyd has now handed down a ruling in HTC's favor against ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 03, 2012
Samsung's request for a stay in the potential Galaxy Nexus sales ban was denied this evening by U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh. As everyone knows, Judge Koh decided last Friday that she...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 02, 2012
It's not all doom and gloom in the Android world. Comscore just released its findings for the three months ending in May, and they are as follows:
Samsung's is the top overall mobile...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 28, 2012
It's worth mentioning that for everything we saw in the Day 1 keynote at Google I/O, one "feature" of years past was noticeably absent -- there weren't any major jabs at Apple and ...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 28, 2012
Previously a Windows only affair, BlueStacks app player allows folks to load up Android apps onto their personal computers and run them directly within a slim, virtualized environment. Today, at Goo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 12, 2012
Apple won't be able to hold back the Galaxy S III tide in the US, as their request for an early injunction hearing against Samsung's latest has been denied by U.S. District Judge Lucy K...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 11, 2012
We knew it was going to happen, right? Apple has ditched Google Maps for iOS, rolling its own in-house cartographic solution, including turn-by-turn navigation, which has never been as good on the f...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 08, 2012
So you have a modern (read one that has or is going to get ICS) HTC Android phone, and want to restore the hyperlinked data option menu that Apple spent millions of dollars to take away from you? He...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 06, 2012
The final step in building a successful and desirable Android smartphone seems to be going to court to defend it against Apple. Determined to keep their mind share with the American public (the...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 15, 2012
HTC this evening has confirmed in a statement to Android Central (and everybody else, we imagine) that importation of the HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G LTE handsets have been delayed at the U.S. border b...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 13, 2012
Rumor has it that the next iPhone will eschew Google's Maps backend in favor of Apple's own. Rene over at iMore, who has a good handle on how the minds in Cupertino operate, has a great...
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by Anndrew Vacca
May 01, 2012
comScore just took the wraps off its data for the first quarter of 2012, and it confirms what we’ve been seeing over the past few months: in the U.S., Samsung and Android are the manufactur...
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by Richard Devine
Apr 14, 2012
We've all seen this picture before right? Well, over in China this is quite literally what is happening in their mobile market. While 1-in-10 people in the worlds most populated country own an i...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Mar 23, 2012
In a recent interview with news outlet Reuters, Samsung Mobile's vice president of design, Lee Minhyouk, shed some light on the Korean manufacturer's recent rise to the top of the smartphone...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 16, 2012
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So you've seen the one where a Samsung Galaxy S II owner torments the line of waiting iPhone faithful. "Samsunged," they call it.
Wrap your head arou...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 08, 2012
Fun fact about Apple events: You see a lot of clean slides and graphs and charts and stuff. Often, they're too clean. At Wednesday's iPad event, Apple claimed its A5X processor performs four...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 07, 2012
Our cousins at iMore.com have been killing the iPad (3/HD/new) coverage today. The long and short of it is you've got more powerful iPad with a killer resolution, and a bunch of other co...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 07, 2012
So everybody's got their panties all in a bunch over some new iPad or something that's being announced today. You heard it here first, folks: It'll be better than the last one. It'll...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Mar 02, 2012
A Manheim regional court in Germany today threw out two patent disputes between Samsung and Apple: the first regarding Apple's infrigement on Samsung's 3G/UMTS technology, the second...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 23, 2012
So Amazon, Apple, Google, HP, Microsoft and RIM have all decided to hold hands and form a circle around the California attorney general and agreed to privacy principles designed to bring the in...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Feb 16, 2012
A German court in Munich today announced that it has sided with Apple in the company's latest patent dispute with Motorola Mobility, which involves slide-to-unlock gestures. Of the...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 16, 2012
Samsung has launched yet another 7-inch tablet, and this time it's a redesigned version of the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus for the German market. Similar to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 N, the Tab 7.0 Plus N is ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 11, 2012
Apple has once again called Samsung into court. This time it's about the Galaxy Nexus and four patents that Apple says it infringes. The patents in question are:
U.S. Patent No. 5,946,64...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 03, 2012
278 claims covering 22 patents across 10 devices
The latest round of legal wrangling between Apple and Samsung has seen the former significantly expand its patent claims against the latter in Au...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 01, 2012
The Munich Regional Court in Germany has rejected Apple's latest attempt to block sales of two Android-powered Samsung devices, namely the Galaxy Tab 10.1N and Galaxy Nexus.
The Galaxy Tab 10.1...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 27, 2012
Jailbreaking or rooting your smartphone is currently "legal" under Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but that exemption is set to expire in 2012. The EFF (Electronic Frontier Fo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 25, 2012
The Korea Herald today is reporting that the unlocking mechanism on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is not the subject of a new legal complaint filed by Apple.
The Galaxy Nexus was first named as a target...
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by Simon Sage
Jan 24, 2012
Samsung is having a rough go against Apple in Germany, but that’s apparently not setting a precedent for the rest of Europe. The Court of the Hague, in the Netherlands, has denied an appeal fr...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 24, 2012
We've talked before about what it takes for an app to truly be a competitor to Apple's Siri.
It needs to be easily accessible, and launch quickly. Very quickly.
It needs ...
