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Aug

Google's Motorola Files New Lawsuit Against Apple At The ITC, Seeks Import Bans On Pretty Much Everything Apple Makes

Posted by David Ruddock in Android OS, Legal, Motorola, News

According to Bloomberg, Motorola Mobility has just filed a new lawsuit against Apple at the ITC. Now, ordinarily, we might not report on the filing of such a suit - especially when the complaint hasn't been made public (we have basically zero details). What makes this particular filing important, though, is that it is the first lawsuit filed by Motorola now that it is officially, 100% a part of Google. That's a big deal.

It means Google signed off on this action. It means Google isn't interested in playing a purely defensive role in the mobile patent wars. And while this is sort of by proxy (MMI is in many senses separate from Google), the fact that Motorola filed this suit at all says a lot.

Aug

[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (7/29/12-8/5/12)

Posted by David Ruddock in News, Week In Review

Welcome back to the Android Police Week In Review - your one-stop shopping destination for all things Android news in the last 7 days. You can also find a lot of these stories in a semi-easy-to-digest format as part of our weekly podcast.

Features

Android Back To School Smartphone Buyer's Guide 2012

Carrier 411

Republic Wireless is ready to take on some new customers - so if you want to spend less in order to have both a crappy phone and a crappy network, now's your chance to feel good about yourself.
Verizon was fined $1.25 million by the FCC, told to play nice with its spectrum.

Aug

[The Android Police Podcast] Episode 21: Buffering You Into Purgatory

Posted by David Ruddock in Podcast

Welcome back to another week of the Android Police Podcast. I have to open this post with a bit of an apology, as our attempts to get the live show rolling this week were thwarted at every turn by technical gremlins - we should be up and running again next week, though. You can still listen to this week's episode in its full, recorded glory, though.

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The Cast

Matthew Smith, Host
Bob Severns, Editor, A/V, button-presser
David Ruddock, Co-host
Cameron Summerson, Co-host
Eric Ravenscraft, Co-host

THE OUTLINE

Carrier 411

Republic Wireless is ready to take on some new customers - so if you want to spend less in order to have both a crappy phone and a crappy network, now's your chance to feel good about yourself.

Jul

Samsung's 11.8-inch 2560x1600 Tablet Confirmed In Apple Lawsuit Documents

Posted by Jeremiah Rice in News, Samsung

We'd heard that Samsung was planning an oversized tablet with an incredible screen resolution, but after said 11-inch Galaxy Tab failed to appear at both CES and Mobile World Congress, the Android world moved on to bigger (though not necessarily better) things. In today's opening salvo of legal back-and-forth between Apple and Samsung, the tablet was revealed as part of the latter's strategy for 2012. The slightly larger 11.8-inch, 2560x1600 tablet has no designation beyond "P10", but it looks like Samsung definitely intended to release it when the document was created last year.

This is a confirmation of Samsung' intentions, but not its future.

Jul

Editorial: Samsung Has Given Up On Fighting Apple's Unified Search Patent - Where Do We Go From Here, Google?

Posted by David Ruddock in Editorials, Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy S III, HTC, Legal, Samsung

Update: It appears Samsung sent out the update removing universal search from international Galaxy S III's mistakenly. I'd say the point still stands for the United States, though.

On December 1, 2004, a patent was filed in the United States naming Apple as asignee (owner). Its title is "Universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system." This patent, which you can find here, has become Apple's most effective weapon in its fight to see Android dubbed an iOS "ripoff" by courts and consumers.

And effective it has been - Samsung just removed the local search feature from the international version of the Galaxy S III, having already removed it from the US versions on AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon.

Jul

Apple Wants $2.5 Billion From Samsung For Infringed Patents, Offers Half A Cent For Each Samsung Patent

Posted by David Ruddock in Android OS, Legal, News, Samsung

Over at FOSSPatents, Florien Mueller has gotten his hands on a copy of a filing containing Apple's damages claim against Samsung in their much-publicized California lawsuit. The contents indicate that Apple is seeking $2 billion in unjust enrichment damages (the amount Samsung has wrongly profited infringing Apple's design patents), along with $500 million in lost profits. A smaller $25 million royalty for various technical patents like tap to zoom and overscroll bounce is included, but only in regard to a few products.

The design patents are the damages headliners because only design patents offer the option of seeking unjust enrichment as a remedy (there are various and good reasons for this).

Jul

[The Android Police Week In Review] The Biggest Android Stories Of The Week (7/15/12-7/22/12)

Posted by David Ruddock in News, Week In Review

Welcome back to the Android Police Week In Review, which is getting published slightly late this week because hey, the matinee screening of The Dark Knight Rises was cheaper. Don't forget, you can hear a lot of this over the course of an hour instead of 10 minutes in our podcast.

Carrier 411

Sprint LTE is finally available in most of its launch markets. And they're promising an absolutely earth-shattering 6-8Mbps
Meanwhile, Verizon has announced its bi-weekly LTE mega-expansion that should make the above even sadder.
AT&T has shared data now, and it might save you money. And probably really confuse your parents.

Jul

[The Android Police Podcast] Episode 19: ROM-Flashing Brazilian Street Gangs

Posted by David Ruddock in Podcast

The Android Police Podcast is back! And this week we have a fancy voice-over intro. Get excited.

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The Cast

Matthew Smith, Host
Bob Severns, Editor, A/V, Button-presser
David Ruddock, Co-host
Cameron Summerson, Co-host
Eric Ravenscraft, Co-host

THE OUTLINE

Carrier 411

Sprint LTE is finally available in most of its launch markets. And they're promising an absolutely earth-shattering 6-8Mbps
Meanwhile, Verizon has announced its bi-weekly LTE mega-expansion.
AT&T has shared data now, and it might save you money. And probably really confuse your parents.

Rumor Roundup

Samsung is holding Unpacked 2012 Episode 2 (...

Jul

UK Judge Orders Apple To Publicly State On Its Website That Samsung Didn't Copy The iPad

Posted by Eric Ravenscraft in News, Samsung

Well, that certainly didn't go the way Apple would've liked. A UK judge presiding over one of many lawsuits involving Apple products—specifically concerning the Galaxy Tab line's alleged infringement of the iPad's design—has ordered Apple to publicly post on the UK version of its website that Samsung did not copy the iPad. Said the internet, "Oh, snap!"

The UK judge presiding over the case was the same one who made headlines recently for saying the Galaxy Tab lineup was "not as cool" as the iPad, and thus unlikely to be confused for Apple's slates. It's really hard to imagine an outcome that could be less flattering to both sides.

Jul

Google Wants To Co-Defend HTC Against Nokia In Patent Lawsuit

Posted by David Ruddock in Android OS, Legal, News

According to a header from a sealed document unearthed by FOSSPatents, Google has requested to intervene in an ITC patent lawsuit between HTC and Nokia as co-defendant to the Taiwanese smartphone-maker. This is the first time Google has ever filed as an intervening 3rd-party in a patent lawsuit between one of its hardware partners and a competitor, so it may be the sign of a shift in strategy for the company.

There's also the fact that Google has requested an antitrust investigation against Nokia in the EU, so maybe Google is just piling on the Finnish firm to makes its stance even more clear.