Samsung wins one in Apple patent-infringement case - MobilEgypt

Samsung today won an important ruling against Apple in Germany. The Mannheim Regional Court ruled today that Samsung does not violate a patent Apple holds related to touchscreen functionality in mobile devices. According to the Korea Times, which was first to report on the judgement, the patent in question relates to the way a touchscreen interprets finger inputs. Apple and Samsung have been waging a bitter patent battle all over the world. Neither company had gained an upper hand until last month when a jury in San Jose, Calif., charged Samsung with copying Apple's products. Over the next few months, Samsung could be forced to pay out over $1 billion in damages and might see some of its mobile devices banned from sale. Samsung told the Korea Times in a statement today that it plans to "continue to further develop and introduce products that enhance the lives of German consumers." According to Reuters, the court didn't just stop at Samsung. Motorola, which was also cited in an Apple lawsuit over the touchscreen technology, was likewise found not to violate the iPhone maker's patent. Apple, of course, isn't in danger of running out of claims. The company has several lawsuits against both Samsung and Motorola in courts across the U.S. and Europe. Many of those suits likely won't be resolved for several months. Meanwhile, Apple's competitors are reportedly considering firing more salvos. Earlier this month, reports surfaced, saying Samsung would launch a lawsuit against Apple's iPhone 5 over its use of 4G LTE . The company claims the integration violates patents it holds related to the speedy wireless service.

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Project Austin's Windows 8 app takes notes from Courier - MobilEgypt

A group inside Microsoft's C++ team has developed a digital note-taking application for Windows 8 that is codenamed "Project Austin." The app allows users to add pages to a notebook, delete or move them, use digital ink to write or draw and add photos. Notes created in Austin can be shared with other Windows 8 apps, like e-mail and SkyDrive. Users can choose different types of "paper" and view the pages in a variety of ways, including leafing through them like a real paper book. The Austin team wasn't trying to compete with Microsoft's more robust OneNote digital note-taking app, according to a September 20 post on the Visual C++ team blog about the new app. But they did take "much of the inspiration and code" from Courier, Microsoft's cancelled, dual-screen note-taking tablet. "We believe in the beautiful simplicity of just a pen and a piece of paper, and that's what we tried to recreate with it. Much of the inspiration and code for the Austin app draws from an earlier project code-named Courier," blogged Visual C++ developer Jorge Pereira. Courier was a Microsoft-developed dual- screen tablet that never made it out of incubation. It was shelved before it ever came to market back in 2010. The real reason behind the development of Austin wasn't so much to resurrect Courier as it was to showcase C++ and Visual Studio 2012 features like automatic code vectorization and C++ AMP, its built in parallel-computing technology, Pereira said. "Austin aims to demonstrate with real code the kind of device-optimized, fluid and responsive user experience that can be built with our newest native tools on the Windows8 platform," he wrote. The Austin team is making the majority of its source code available for download via CodePlex. The team also is planning to continue a series of blog posts about how they built Austin. Austin is built mostly on C++, and also uses C++/CX to interface with the Windows Runtime and XAML to display some user interface elements, according to the post. The graphics engine is built on DirectX. Austin's code is structured with common functions grouped in a library, which the team has codenamed "Baja," inspired by modern modularity design principles. There's no word in the post, designated part one of six, about when and if the team plans to make its app available in the Windows Store. If I get more information, I'll add it to this post.

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HTC One X and One XL to Receive Jelly Bean in October - MobilEgypt

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation might begin the delivery of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to its HTC One X and One Xl smartphones as soon as next month, the latest reports on the matter suggest. MoDaCo’s Paul O’Brien suggests that the unlocked flavors of these two devices will get the update in October, and that all other versions, including carrier branded ones, will receive the new software before Christmas. Of course, nothing has been officially confirmed on the matter for the time being, but the rumor might actually pan out, especially with Jelly Bean out on the market for three good months now. No info on when HTC One S will taste Jelly Bean has been provided, yet we can expect it to receive the update soon after One X, HTC Source notes.

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Kanavos Windows Phone Concept Bets Big on Tiles - MobilEgypt

Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform did manage to bring a change to the manner in which users look at mobile phones, making that step away from the crowd, but the OS might still have a lot to evolve before becoming a leader on the market. One of the main features of the platform is its consistency across devices coming from different handset vendors, yet one designer believes that a series of issues can be found here as well. According to Alexandros Stasinopoulos , there are only few Windows Phones that indeed manage to blend the platform into the hardware, and that this is the aspect that handset vendors should take into consideration when designing new smartphones. He also proposes a new approach to Windows Phone, called Kanavos and aimed specifically at bringing the handset and the software running on it together. “Kanavos suggests a bold industrial design through a number of vertical and horizontal contrast color stripes that is visually completed through the recent minimal but strong windows mobile user interface design,” Stasinopoulos explains. “What is shown on the main menu screen does not disrupt any more the design of the device but, instead, the black stripes of the Windows OS meet the ones of the hardware and thus the OS becomes, in a sense, a bridge between the two sides of the device.” The concept design proposes the relocation of the “Windows” button from the center of the lower part of the phone to its left and right sides, a move that would facilitate the access to its functions. Having so many stripes on a mobile phone might not be a feature that all users would like, but the concept certainly seems highly interesting, especially when considering its proposed consistency across hardware and software. Many people have already started to show increased interest in Nokia’s new Windows Phone 8 smartphones, which makes us wonder whether a device resembling Kanavos will prove successful or not. Let us know what you think of it by dropping a comment below.

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Apple’s iPhone 5 Now Available at Three UK - MobilEgypt

Wireless carrier Three UK has made the new Apple iPhone 5 available for purchase on its network starting today, providing users with the possibility to grab either the black or the white flavor of the smartphone. Packing a 4-inch Retina display, the new model is bigger than previous flavors, while also proposing a slight change in design, with the screen being taller but keeping the same width. The iPhone 5 is now available at Three UK for no upfront cost on the carrier’s £44 per month plan, and can be purchased for £79 on the £34 or £36 plans, or for prices ranging from £129 to £189 on the £32 to £30 monthly plans. This offering is available for the 16GB flavor of the new Apple iPhone, while the 32GB and 64GB versions can be purchased for no upfront costs on the £49 and £54 plans, respectively. In addition to the handset , these 24-month contracts also deliver up to 1,000 any network minutes, 5,000 texts, and various amounts of data (unlimited internet is available on the £44, £49 and £54 plans). For those out of the loop, we should note that the new iPhone 5 arrives on shelves with a fast dual-core 1GHz A6 chip packed inside, to deliver better performance than before. Moreover, the handset features an 8-megapixel photo snapper on the back, an iSight camera with panorama capabilities and the ability to shoot 1080p videos (full HD resolution). It also includes a front camera to enable video calling. The smartphone arrives on shelves with the new iOS 6 platform, said to be the most advanced mobile OS in the world, as well as with a range of features powered by it. Among them, we can count Siri—Your intelligent assistant, FaceTime video calling and iCloud—Your content on all your devices, along with support for over 700,000 apps in the App Store, as well as the All-new Apple EarPods.

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The rest only 5 hours on the issuance of iPhone 5 - MobilEgypt

Apple's iPhone 5 event starts 

On San Francisco

Wednesday

, September 12th 

at 10AM PT, 1PM ET

We're once again at the tail end of an annual ritual, the iPhone rumor cycle, and we're just hours away from finding out what Apple has been working on for the past year. Will the iPhone 5 look exactly like the leaks, effectively an elongated 4 / 4S with a new mini dock connector? Will it support LTE on every US carrier? Are there any surprises in iOS 6 that Cupertino has been keeping under its hat? Will it even be called the iPhone 5 at all? Everything will be revealed at 10AM PT on Wednesday, September 12th

The event will start on Wednesday, September 12th. Join us at the times below for all the action!

07:00AM - Hawaii
09:00AM - Alaska
10:00AM - Pacific
11:00AM - Mountain
12:00PM - Central
01:00PM - Eastern
02:00PM - São Paulo
06:00PM - London
07:00PM - Paris
09:00PM - Moscow
02:00AM - Tokyo (September 13th)
03:00AM - Sydney (September 13th)

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