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.