HTC Delays Evo 4G LTE Launch as U.S. Customs Investigates Shipments for Breach of Apple Patent

[jdogg836]

Does anyone know whether the new HTC Evo is using the above function to avoid Apple's patent? It'd be easy for HTC to use the Nexus approach, wouldn't it?

The patent is for converting email addresses and phone numbers into links for the phone to open the appropriate app.

None of these new HTC Sense 4.0 devices infringe on the patent. They have a rather ingenious work around, and this whole case is just a prime example of how slowly the US government agencies move. IF they had just done a little research on the HTC ONE X which has been out for a month, they would have already known this.

I do not wish this on ANY company, whether it be an Android company or Apple themselves. This is just bureaucratic bulls**t.

 

[JAT]

Their HTC Sense UI especially seems to be quite appreciated by the industry.

Reviewers industry. But their sales are mediocre in the face of Samsung Android phones. Seems strange considering the reviews. People must be buying based on something else.

 

[KnightWRX]

Reviewers industry. But their sales are mediocre in the face of Samsung Android phones. Seems strange considering the reviews. People must be buying based on something else.

The Sense UI dates back all the way to Windows Mobile 6. It predates the iPhone.

Their sales are fine and have no bearing on what people say about Sense.

 

[Mac2012]

What's a Samsung? A monitor, right?

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The patent is for converting email addresses and phone numbers into links for the phone to open the appropriate app.

None of these new HTC Sense 4.0 devices infringe on the patent. They have a rather ingenious work around, and this whole case is just a prime example of how slowly the US government agencies move. IF they had just done a little research on the HTC ONE X which has been out for a month, they would have already known this.

I do not wish this on ANY company, whether it be an Android company or Apple themselves. This is just bureaucratic bulls**t.

Good... anything to keep monopolies running STRONG! YES!

 

[Digital Skunk]

The Sense UI dates back all the way to Windows Mobile 6. It predates the iPhone.

Their sales are fine and have no bearing on what people say about Sense.

HTC was really the only PDA makers for a LONG time after Palm dropped the ball on the entire industry. Sense ran on top of WM6 on just about all of their devices.

Sadly (for us Americans), you could only get their devices in the EU and Asia.

 

[robanga]

HTC was really the only PDA makers for a LONG time after Palm dropped the ball on the entire industry. Sense ran on top of WM6 on just about all of their devices.

Sadly (for us Americans), you could only get their devices in the EU and Asia.

Interesting fact from the non-consumer world: PDA's are still made in the many 100s of thousands today. They just have interesting features like barcode readers, RFID radios, and screen warmers and are used to track packages, stock walmart and deliver your new Mac to your home They are all industrial now and most still run variants of Windows Mobile 6.x or Windows CE.

 

[JAT]

The Sense UI dates back all the way to Windows Mobile 6. It predates the iPhone.

Their sales are fine and have no bearing on what people say about Sense.

I find it interesting that every one of your posts trys to have some sort of message about history and how people should discuss it. Is that the main reason you chat with people?