Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Android patent challenges: Apple, Nokia vs Samsung, Google

Samsung fails to stall Galaxy Nexus sales ban • The Register:

Samsung's bad luck in the US courts continues after Judge Lucy Koh refused to delay a ban on its Galaxy Nexus smartphones...

Google has pulled the Nexus from its US Play store, and the phone has been changed from "for sale" to "coming soon" with no other information.


By the way, the Google is selling the Nexus phone for $349,
that is about half the price of iPhone 4S.
Most likely Google is not making profit on such sales,
so that may be the best "deal" on a smartphone.

Same goes for Nextus 7 tablet ($199), that is being challenged
by Nokia patents
recently...

It is interesting that from most of Android devices sold, Microsoft is getting $5 to $15 on patents licensing, but Apple does not want to provide any license, and Google does not want to pay any.

Patents are a mess... A useful tool, but a mess.

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