Won the court threatens Apple smartphone Galaxy S III

Last week, Apple  haswon on the patent front, achieving pre-ban sales of the smartphone Galaxy Nexus in the United States. Such an order made Circuit Judge Lucy Koh, California. Meanwhile, a preliminary decision in favor of Apple may threaten the Galaxy S III, and other popular models of Android-smartphone.

 

The initiator of the suit is a manufacturer of Cupertino. In February, he filed a lawsuit against Samsung, accusing the rival of violating four patents: 5,946,647 (method of data extraction), 8,086,604 (universal search technology), 8,046,721 (unlock by holding your finger across the screen) and 8,074,172 (completion words when entering text.)

The preliminary decision on the Galaxy Nexus, threatens Android-smartphone sales in the U.S. as a whole, because the techniques described in these patents Apple, apply to all devices on this platform: in particular, the method of removing the device from locking finger and predictive text input.

The reason for the positive decision of the court was under patent number 8,086,604. This patent describes the technology of universal search, which is the basis function in the Siri iPhone 4S and the new iPad. Its essence - search the various sources of data updates, what the user wants to receive. This technology, called S-Voice is implemented in the phone Samsung S III.

The preliminary decision to ban was issued by the judge, who previously took a similar decision regarding the sales in the United States tablet Galaxy Tab 10.1 . This decision is Samsung also intends to contest.

The ban on the sale of Galaxy Nexus will enter into force after Apple will make a deposit of $ 95 million these funds will be paid as compensation for the Samsung, if the decision to ban sales will be challenged. According to FOSS Patents, Korean manufacturers have already started preparing documents for the appeal.

Smartphones for “OSes” Firefox OS will be released in 2013

Developed by the well-known of Firefox, the company Mozilla, announced plans to release its own open operating system based on web standard HTML5.

 

In Mozilla's official blog says that the new platform, called Firefox OS will run entirely on open Web standards and all the devices can be used on HTML5-based applications. Program, in turn, will have access to phone features such as camera, a gyroscope or a phone module.

Mozilla has already reached an agreement on cooperation with cellular providers, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, and Telenor. To release smartphones running the new OS will be the company TCL Communication Technology (under the brand Alcatel One Touch), and ZTE. They will use the Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm.

Firefox OS for mobile devices developed on the basis of the draft Boot to Gecko, which allows you to HTML5-applications to access to basic phone features. According to the Mozilla, the platform will be optimized for entry-level smartphone, and with the low prices the company plans to capture growth markets.

Plans to develop a mobile OS Mozilla unveiled in July last year . An earlier version of Boot to Gecko company showed at the MWC show in February 2012. The first smartphone based on the new OS will be in early 2013 in Brazil under the brand name Vivo.