Mine is rooted and cleaned up. But my rom is a standard samsung rom (not branded) the bloatware are those crappy samsung apps like touchwiz and their crappy app store among lots of suspect apks like mobiletracker.apk.
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Ban on Sale of Samsung Galaxy Smartphones in EU Set for October 13th
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Mine is rooted and cleaned up. But my rom is a standard samsung rom (not branded) the bloatware are those crappy samsung apps like touchwiz and their crappy app store among lots of suspect apks like mobiletracker.apk.
Mr Florian spreading FUD as always.
If 3.x gallery app doesn't infringe the patent and it has the same functionality as 2.x gallery app where is the severe blow?
And is funny that a Microsoft boy like Mueller is now the one to hear. Enemy of my enemy is my friend?
To you perhaps, not to all engineers working, thinking and dreaming about touch for over half a decade. Second, HTC had swiping before iPhone came out. Two strikes, two misses. Want another try?
Apple didn't invent the App Store, Apple didn't invent the smart phone, Apple didn't invent multitouch.
Apple did market a great product called an App Store, Apple did innovate the Smart phone, Apple did buy a great company that had multitouch ideas and introduce it to mass market.
Call a duck a duck.
Use a standard Android release then and install something like LauncherPro. I use EVO Deck which is base Gingerbread and Launcherpro to give me a Dock.
I haven't used many Samsung devices, but I believe they use Androids stock gallery app. So they are either going to have to make their own quickly, or have Google patch up the way photo's transition in Android. So that means swiping in Android is a patent infringement? That's insane. Its more providing a convenient and quick way for users to look through their photos than trying to steal someone's design.
It would seem that its just for swiping and having photo's slide to the left and right. So instead, you can still do the swiping gesture, but instead the photo does a fade transition to the next photo.
I hope Apple is proud of themselves. This seems like an empty, petty, dry victory. I would cheer Apple on for defending their patent, but it just seems futile.
It would seem that its just for swiping and having photo's slide to the left and right. So instead, you can still do the swiping gesture, but instead the photo does a fade transition to the next photo.
I hope Apple is proud of themselves. This seems like an empty, petty, dry victory. I would cheer Apple on for defending their patent, but it just seems futile.
Samsung could well be the winner after all..
This is still very early news but it seems that this is a win situation for Samsung. The judge rejected all claims from Apple except a patent violation that can be fixed with a quick update. Also lets not forget that the specific patent has been invalidated in most european countries. There are only four countries on the list in which it still applies. The biggest drawback for Apple if it continues this litigation will be the loss of mindset share. US maybe a different market but us Europeans think very differently and do not have the blind loyalty towards brands nor are we sympathetic towards large corporations especially when they try to deprive us of options.
This is still very early news but it seems that this is a win situation for Samsung. The judge rejected all claims from Apple except a patent violation that can be fixed with a quick update. Also lets not forget that the specific patent has been invalidated in most european countries. There are only four countries on the list in which it still applies. The biggest drawback for Apple if it continues this litigation will be the loss of mindset share. US maybe a different market but us Europeans think very differently and do not have the blind loyalty towards brands nor are we sympathetic towards large corporations especially when they try to deprive us of options.
Very true. However, according to FOSS the distribution center is in Netherlands; so cutting off Netherlands hamstrings (or at least impacts) the distribution to the entire EU.
Samsung's route of upgrading the software is probably easier.
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Not wrong, before the iPhone was presented there was gestures like swipe.
Can you look for htc patent?
Yeah that's why we Europeans have volume caps on our mp3 players. So long options.
1) I said sensible. Your solution(s) offers none of the advantages of touch.
2) There were devices that used swipe before the iphone.
3) What is this "whole lot of things" you are talking about? Everytime i go to the homescreen i just see a grid of icons*.
* ill be fair and say that they added some somewhat original things in later versions of iOS. But afaik these are not present in any android skin, so quite irrelevant.
If you sit on it too long, there is Laches.
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You work for Samsung ?
I remember watching IOS 5 keynote and chuckling every time Jobs cooed over "new features". Look, notification bar! Look, a cloud for your contacts and calendars! Look, wireless syncing! If there is one thing where Apple is truly innovative and successful at is repackaging and marketing of other people's ideas as their own. You know, stealing
Not available for my specific phone. No custom roms, only crappy samsung ones. Still I use the stock android launcher. Launcherpro doesn't like my phone and crashes a lot, worked fine in my older phone tho.
Depends where you live in europe
There are countries in europe without the volume cap? That's awesome which ones?
Query....
Would this not affect ALL android smartphones running 2.2 \ 2.3 \ 2.4 running the standard gallery app ?
If so why just Samsung ? confused.
Would this not affect ALL android smartphones running 2.2 \ 2.3 \ 2.4 running the standard gallery app ?
If so why just Samsung ?
confused.For those of you who have just joined us:
A Netherlands judge said that the photo gallery horizontal swipe/slide method was a valid patent and found that Samsung's phones (but not tablets) validated it.
The very same patent is invalid in most other countries (probably because of tons of prior art).
Does this mean it is bad for Samsung Android to 'steal' the function of a photo gallery, but it is ok for Apple to 'steal' notifications?
A Netherlands judge said that the photo gallery horizontal swipe/slide method was a valid patent and found that Samsung's phones (but not tablets) validated it.
The very same patent is invalid in most other countries (probably because of tons of prior art).
Does this mean it is bad for Samsung Android to 'steal' the function of a photo gallery, but it is ok for Apple to 'steal' notifications?
1. A touched based system isn't new.
2. Doing gestures with your input method to accomplish things isn't new.
If Apple spent millions into research to combine these two, then Apple's R&D department isn't as good as people seem to think....
Gestures was added to a browser in 2000. Opera.
Gestures was added to a video game in 2001 (if not earlier). Black and White.
But somehow you think that nobody was ever thinking about adding gestures to a touch based system years later...
Wrong. The patent doesn't apply in (some) other European countries because Apple didn't update the necessary paperwork.
Try keeping to facts.
I realize that is hard for people so deluded as to keep on finding new ways to rationalize Samsungs behavior, but at least try and not just make stuff up.
There, sounds much better now.
(BTW, where's that apology for the "blatant copying" comments ?)