Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Lenovo steals Apple's iPhone design for "oPhone"

Lenovo steals Apple's iPhone design for "oPhone"
Usually rip-off counterfeits are produced by disreputable, back-room shops nobody's heard of. Now, it appears, international computing giant Lenovo is getting into the act. The company's new Android handset is called the oPhone, and the software interface looks a LOT like the iPhone's.

Sprint 3G to enter Garmin, Kodak, SanDisk devices?
Sprint is hoping to embed its cellular networking in devices from at least Garmin, Kodak and SanDisk, a leak (registration required) on Tuesday suggests. The Wall Street Journal claims to known an individual aware of talks that would see Sprint provide Internet access on these partners' devices as it does with Amazon's Kindle 2. Such deals would have similar arrangements and have companies pay i...



Apple wins cooling handle, iPhone icon patents
Apple has been newly granted two different US patents, both relating to mobile technology. The first, Portable electronic device with interface reconfiguration mode, essentially describes the method used to rearrange icons on the iPhone and iPod touch. To begin with users hold their finger on an icon, at which point all icons start "floating" free and can be repositioned. Users hold again to fi...



Lenovo steals Apple's iPhone design for "oPhone"
Usually rip-off counterfeits are produced by disreputable, back-room shops nobody's heard of. Now, it appears, international computing giant Lenovo is getting into the act. The company's new Android handset is called the oPhone, and the software interface looks a LOT like the iPhone's.

Sprint 3G to enter Garmin, Kodak, SanDisk devices?
Sprint is hoping to embed its cellular networking in devices from at least Garmin, Kodak and SanDisk, a leak (registration required) on Tuesday suggests. The Wall Street Journal claims to known an individual aware of talks that would see Sprint provide Internet access on these partners' devices as it does with Amazon's Kindle 2. Such deals would have similar arrangements and have companies pay i...



Apple wins cooling handle, iPhone icon patents
Apple has been newly granted two different US patents, both relating to mobile technology. The first, Portable electronic device with interface reconfiguration mode, essentially describes the method used to rearrange icons on the iPhone and iPod touch. To begin with users hold their finger on an icon, at which point all icons start "floating" free and can be repositioned. Users hold again to fi...


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