A Happy Tranquil Christmas for HTC?
Mark Bridge writes:
HTC experienced a bit of Christmas cheer last week when the threat of a sales injunction against the HTC One mini smartphone and a number of other devices was lifted. Nokia had previously won a patent-related court case against HTC but it seems that a sales ban was deemed too harsh a penalty.
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The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint made about online advertising for the Sony Xperia SP smartphone.
A page on the www.sonymobile.com website had described the phone has having “an exquisite aluminium frame”. However, a customer who’d bought the phone said the ad was misleading because he didn’t believe that the frame was made from aluminium.
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The consortium that acquired Nortel’s portfolio of around 4,000 tech patents is now putting those patents into battle.
Those patents were bought in March 2012 for $4.5 billion by the Rockstar Consortium, which included Apple, Microsoft, RIM (BlackBerry), Ericsson and Sony.
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Podcast - 11th September 2013
This week's show is packed with new products, including two iPhones, three smartwatches, two Android smartphones and a couple of innovative lens-based camera accessories.
We also find time to talk about mobile security, virtual networks and being dishonest via text message.
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Sony has announced two smartphone accessories that look like camera lenses.
Each is actually a separate camera that’ll link to compatible Android and iOS smartphones via WiFi and Sony’s PlayMemories Mobile application. There are even smartphone mounting kits for some handsets, although the ‘lens’ can also be used at a distance from the phone.
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