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HTC phones held up by Apple's ITC injunction begin trickling into US
HTC smartphones that have been under review by U.S. Customs due to an Apple patent dispute have begun slowly trickling into America for consumers to purchase.HTC has revealed that "some models" of smartphones have begun coming into the U.S. through customs review, as first noted by Engadget on Sunday. The handset maker declined to say which models had passed inspection.
"Some models have gone through inspection and been released to our carriers customers," the company said in an investor statement. It added: "We don't have the status of each specific device at this time. We remain confident that this issue will be resolved soon."
The details were provided in an "active clarification" regarding the inspection status of HTC products by U.S. customs. Under the review, each imported HTC model must be reviewed and will be released once officials have completed the inspection.
Word first surfaced last Wednesday that U.S. Customs was holding up the importation of HTC handsets until they could be fully reviewed. The action was taken in response to an injunction issued by the U.S. International Trade Commission over an Apple patent related to "data detectors."
HTC's One X smartphone
Apple's patent pertains to the automated detection of data such as phone numbers, e-mail addresses and hyperlinks among text. HTC announced late last year that it had already developed a workaround to avoid infringement, and it's believed the handsets currently under review at U.S. Customs have implemented that workaround.
Among the devices held up is HTC's One X smartphone, an Android-powered device featuring a 4.7-inch 720p high-definition display, and a 1.5-gigahertz dual-core processor, and LTE 4G high-speed data connectivity.
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I don't think we will hear the last of this in that the workaround as described doesn't seem to really avoid the issue of data detectors and uses a definition of them that I'm pretty sure the courts didn't support. They are assuming that the detection of the data and the resultant action have to be together for it to violate Apple's patent but a reading of the patent suggests (at least to me) that this isn't the case at all.
It will be interesting to see what Apple thinks about the workaround.
Do you have any link to the workaround? I am curious what HTC have come up with...
Do you have any link to the workaround? I am curious what HTC have come up with...
http://www.dailytech.com/HTC+Implements+Workaround+to+Apples+Patent+for+Evo+4G+LTE+One+X/article24709.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=feed
http://www.dailytech.com/HTC+Implements+Workaround+to+Apples+Patent+for+Evo+4G+LTE+One+X/article24709.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=feed
Curious to know if this is how US Customs usually conducts themselves. On face value, it doesn't sound very professional but I imagine there is much more to it.
http://www.dailytech.com/HTC+Implements+Workaround+to+Apples+Patent+for+Evo+4G+LTE+One+X/article24709.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=feed
Thanks, I had seen this before from the Verge but thought that there was some new information. I don't see how this is different from earlier Android versions; perhaps HTC have removed the ability to display the menu with options upon clicking on structured data altogether. On GB, once you select "use by default", you don't get the option menu any more (unless you go into the settings for the default app)...
I got the new HTC One X three days after it came out. My contract with AT&T was up and well, HONESTLY... I was just getting tired of waiting on Apple for the next generation iPhone. This HTC ONE X phone is AWESOME. 4.7 inch high res AMOLED screen. Thin as hell. Fast as hell. Love it. This is my second HTC phone. Last model was the Aria. But this one rocks. And it comes with ICE CREAM android system too.
Apple has failed with their Apple TV - not having analog jacks for my super expensive stereo... and being really SLOW to MARKET with new products such as their phone.
They also don't provide back up DVDs/CDs or a back up USB drive. I put in new hard drive in Macbook Pro and had to buy a $70 USB key from the apple store. Hello. This should have been FREE. Apple is not providing a way to recover after incidents.
Yay more malware for android losers.
Android Malware Quadruples Between 2011 And 2012
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2012/05/16/android-malware-quadruples-between-2011-an-2012/?partner=yahootix
I got the new HTC One X three days after it came out. My contract with AT&T was up and well, HONESTLY... I was just getting tired of waiting on Apple for the next generation iPhone. This HTC ONE X phone is AWESOME. 4.7 inch high res AMOLED screen. Thin as hell. Fast as hell. Love it. This is my second HTC phone. Last model was the Aria. But this one rocks. And it comes with ICE CREAM android system too.
Apple has failed with their Apple TV - not having analog jacks for my super expensive stereo... and being really SLOW to MARKET with new products such as their phone.
They also don't provide back up DVDs/CDs or a back up USB drive. I put in new hard drive in Macbook Pro and had to buy a $70 USB key from the apple store. Hello. This should have been FREE. Apple is not providing a way to recover after incidents.
Products can come to market much faster when the analysis and design work, market testing and prototypes are done for them by someone else. Wonder where HTC would be if they had to start from scratch.
They also don't provide back up DVDs/CDs or a back up USB drive. I put in new hard drive in Macbook Pro and had to buy a $70 USB key from the apple store. Hello. This should have been FREE. Apple is not providing a way to recover after incidents.
Um all new macbook pros come with the ability to boot off the internet and reinstall osx lion directly from apple, if apple put the new hard drive in your macbook you would have this option by holding option on boot up. then you could boot and restore off the internet directly from apple. The 70 dollar option is not necessary, you can also create your own bootable dvd very easily from the downloaded version of lion. Which will also install the os. Just reinstalled lion off the internet on my sons 2011 mini worked flawlessly.
Um all new macbook pros come with the ability to boot off the internet and reinstall osx lion directly from apple, if apple put the new hard drive in your macbook you would have this option by holding option on boot up. then you could boot and restore off the internet directly from apple. The 70 dollar option is not necessary, you can also create your own bootable dvd very easily from the downloaded version of lion. Which will also install the os. Just reinstalled lion off the internet on my sons 2011 mini worked flawlessly.
How big is the download from the net though? I would much prefer to boot it off USB especially if you are in a place with a slow net connection
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... HTC announced late last year that it had already developed a workaround to avoid infringement ...
I don't think we will hear the last of this in that the workaround as described doesn't seem to really avoid the issue of data detectors and uses a definition of them that I'm pretty sure the courts didn't support. They are assuming that the detection of the data and the resultant action have to be together for it to violate Apple's patent but a reading of the patent suggests (at least to me) that this isn't the case at all.
It will be interesting to see what Apple thinks about the workaround.