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As the smart phone market gets smoldering hot a Famous American company says that it appears that a Taiwanese company that manufactures smart phone handsets may have borrowed or closely copied some of their patents. The plaintiff denies it of course, and we shall see in the future if any of these claims of imitation stick. Nevertheless, both smart phone makers are in a significantly tough market for world-wide Smart Cell Phone sales. Yes, even here in the US.

These lawsuits are quite serious, well at least the charges by the American Company appear to be, and it’s interesting that this company chose the Taiwanese based company to go after, instead of the a US based firm which makes the software. If the American Company wins such a case this might cause the Taiwan manufacturer to no longer offer their top smart phone models that compete directly with the American Company, which really do look and feel like an the American high-tech smart phone handset to most of the personal tech reviewers (based on all the YouTube reviews), and Taiwan company has a number of new handsets which are about to be marketed in the USA. Does this mean the American Company is trying to preempt this introduction?

The question is does the Taiwan company’s touch sense like technology really violate the American Company’s patents? The American Firm thinks so, and it’s highly prolific spokesperson has gone out of his way to make light of it, demanding healthy competition to continue, but for companies to compete, using their own technology without stealing it from the American Firm. If all this sounds like a bunch of fighting words, well in a way they are, I suppose. If the Taiwan company’s newest products come to the US it will most likely be sold in conjunction with a certain carrier’s 3G wireless program. And there are nearly 102 new clone types on their way in the near future in 2010.

Some have speculated that a popular US based software for smart phones had trouble working with a certain Taiwan smart phone, and the software had trouble negotiating the registry. If so, did the Taiwanese firm borrow something from the American firms OS, or is the American firm angry that the Taiwan models at the upper end look, feel, operate the same (or very similarly) and thus, are basically clones? The battle lines in the smart phone space appear to be headed to court, the US International Patent Court for starters.

Some contend that the American Firm is suing the Taiwan company, because the clones, which are running another US Firms’s software and by filing against the Taiwan company it will prevent a clash of the titans between two of the largest market cap tech companies in the world. If the American Firm is successful this could help hold their latest handset technology’s price point, thus, helping yet, another US enterprise’s smart phone which sells for $199 as well. Nevertheless, the world is about to be flooded with smart phones in 2010, and not just from the Taiwan firm.

The American Company has noted extremely large share price increases, at a time when it is about to come out with its flat reader product, so, Wall Street Analysts are giving the American Firm the benefit of the doubt that it can keep this game running forward far into the future, indeed, their current stock prices have obliged thus far. This could be one of the largest patent challenges of all time between East and West, so we shall see.

Note: This article author did not use the actual names of any company in this article due to censorship strategies used by the article submission site, to protect themselves from liability as the are practicing “defensive” rules to prevent problems. But suffice it to say, with a little bit of searching of the news and all the other legitimate article sites, you will quickly figure out which companies are involved. You can easily find this information in any main-stream newspaper, or tech magazine such as;

The Wall Street Journal New York Times Washington Post CNET NBC ABC CNBC MSNBC Wired Fast Company Bloomberg Business Week Forbes

The other day, I had someone contact me on one of my blogs asking if I thought it would make sense to get the iPod touch just for web surfing.

Nokia seems to be bucking the trend with its newest C-5 model, which resembles an iPhone, at least the screen. And it appears to be an instant hit with cell phone and smart phone consumers. With the C, E, X, N series devices, Nokia is able to deliver the right personal tech at the right price to each and every user, from the low end to the high-end techno geek and early adopter. The C-5 model is not the top of the line phone, although it looks it, and it’s not anywhere near the bottom either. It’s more like middle of the road phone with the right lines and the right look for the right price.

The phone has highspeed packet access for data transfer, which is nice, and it takes very detailed and high-resolution pictures with over a 15 GB hard drive. It is not yet available in the US, but the company is selling them like hot cakes on pre-orders to their dealer networks in Africa, Middle East, Asia and Europe. The phone has the ability to use Google and Microsoft email, and instant messaging services. It is obvious Nokia wants no part of the brand war, only wants to sell a ton of phones. But will they you ask?

Could be, as it sells for about $180 and it is fully integrated for the social networking teen, able to use all the applications on Facebook and Myspace, as well as several other foreign social networking websites. Nokia is delivering what the people want, and Nokia cell phone smart phone technology has found niches to exploit as Apple, Google, and others look for a way to the end-all-be-all to all users. Nokia is doing well in the market place and their profits in 2009-2010 seem to indicate that the consumers are pleased.

It would be very hard to debate that Nokia will be the leader in handset sales in 2010, as they cleared over a billion in profit in 2009, and sold some 1.83 million phones. Some believe that HTC is going to rock their world in coming years, but it’s doubtful if that will happen this year. Nokia has things going on, and thus, it does pay to check out which phones in their line of smart phone models fit your fancy, that is if you are presently in the market for a new cellphone. Please consider all this as you do your online cellphone shopping in 2010.

It’s been a while now since the first phone to use Google’s revolutionary Android Operating System, the T Mobile G1, was released and the concept seems to have gathered pace somewhat, with a host of new Android mobile phones and smart phones now available. Here’s brief review of each of the past and current Android phones released so far.

T Mobile G1
The original ‘Google Phone’ released after much hype in October 2008, the G1 was touted as the big threat to the established iPhone. It has to be said that the G1, manufactured by the Taiwanese mobile specialists HTC, was something of a disappointment. The phone itself was bulky and the slide-out keyboard drew complaints for being unwieldy and impossible to use with just one hand.

The G1 did, however, include some innovations, most notably, the seamless integration of many of Google’s famous applications such as search, maps and street view. And most people who reviewed the phone were impressed with the speed and reliability of the connection made to the internet while they were out and about – this was, after all, a project which aimed to make the internet truly mobile?

HTC Magic
The world didn’t have to wait long for some improvements to take place with the release of the HTC Magic in April 2009. The slide-out keyboard was ditched in favor of an intuitive touch screen function, the much criticised camera was upgraded to 3.2 mega pixels and the handset itself was smaller, lighter and much more attractive.
The critics started to wonder whether, in fact, Google were on to something here?

HTC Hero
Just a few short weeks later and the HTC Hero, also known as the G2 Touch, came onto the market and now people really were taking notice. The HTC Hero is a sleek, modern looking handset with all the usual features and some notable improvements.

The 3.2″ display with touch-screen functionality is bright and responsive with an iPhone like ‘pinch-to-zoom’ feature and also displays useful weather updates as well as updates on all your favorite twitter and Facebook feeds.
The Hero also is the first phone to use HTC’s innovative ‘Sense’ featuring seven individual, customized home screens which can be changed with the sweep of a finger.

HTC Tattoo
The latest offering from HTC is aimed, primarily, at the budget and pre-pay market. A slightly smaller and more compact handset with a 2.8″ screen and some trimming down in the feature department, the idea is clearly aimed at bringing Android to the masses and who would bet against it?

Motorola Dext
It’s been a while since Motorola were connected with anything that could be described as innovative but the Dext may well change a few perceptions of one of the original and oldest mobile handset manufacturers?

In addition to the Android operating system, Motorola have included their own application, known as ‘MotoBlur’ which checks Twitter, MySpace and Facebook for status updates and displays these on one of it’s five home screens. Clearly aimed at the social network generation the Dext also re-introduces the slide-out QWERTY keyboard which is a lot more easy to use than the original concept trialled in the G1. The Motorola also includes a nifty security application which allows users to remotely wipe all personal data from the phone should it be lost or stolen.

Samsung Galaxy i7500
The first Android phone on the O2 network, as well as Samsung’s first foray in this sector, the Galaxy i7500 features a 3.2″ screen, 8MB built in memory and a 5 mega pixel camera with integrated flash and auto-focus. Some of the Android features have been cut down but, overall, a quality smart phone that will undoubtedly be a hit?

The speed and pace of development of the Android project over the last twelve months has been phenomenal and there can be no doubting Google’s commitment to be a major force in mobile technology development in the future. Whether the Google phone concept will ever topple Apple’s iPhone as the handset of choice remains to be seen, but given the progress so far it will be interesting to see how the concept develops over the next few years.

With advanced visuals and sound, and cutting edge smartphone technology, the new HTC Desire HD is considered to be the best smartphone on the market, but is it better than the Apple iPhone 4? HTC have loaded the phone with the latest version of Android and coated it in there intuitive HTC Sense interface. As you might have gathered from the name, the new phones is HD capable and with its HDMI cable, compatible with your HD ready TV at home.

The Desire HD is quite iconic in design; the humongous 4.3 inch display may give the phone a few extra millimetres here and there but with its super slim chassis it is still very pocket friendly and feels luxurious to handle as there is a little weight to it also. The screen makes the most of its 480 x 800 pixel resolution to bring you super crisp and very clean on-screen imagery. Utilising capacitive technology the interface can be interacted with via the multi-touch input method which supports the pinch and zoom action.

The new Desire HD is no different from the old Desire where the interface is concerned; the same seven page home screen system allows you to view all screens at once by pinching the screen. You also get FriendStream which enables users to view all of there communications in one application; live feeds from Facebook, Twitter and other networks can all be filtered into the one stream of information.

Accessing the internet can be performed via Wi Fi when access to local WLAN hotspots is possible, and 3G also allows the phone to communicate over the 3G network. The web browser is one of the most advanced browsers on the market, with the use of tabs; multiple sites can be accessed and interacted at once, while saving bookmarks and adding direct shortcuts to the home screen is also possible. Tethering can also be performed wirelessly via Wi Fi or by the USB connection.

The HTC Desire HD has been equipped with the facilities to enable full management of various e-mail accounts, social networks and SMS and MMS formats. A universal inbox can be used for a full overview of communications while Facebook and Twitter can interacted with via dedicated clients.

The digital camera is highly capable and one of the more advanced options on the market; at 8MP’s it can shoot HD video and capture beautiful still imagery, it is loaded with a range of settings and features and it comes complete with LED flash and Auto-Focus. Both the video and music players will handle pretty much any file you run while there are memory expansion options which allow up to 32GB via a microSD card.

Access to the Android Market allows users to fill there Desire HD with the apps they want while the A-GPS receiver supports the phones HTC Footprints and Google Maps application for navigation guidance.

HTC have made there intentions clear with this phone; the Desire HD is one of the most advanced smartphones on the market today, and coupled with the iPhone 4, gives us an insight into what the future holds for mobile technology.

HTC is not a new name in the mobile industry and the phones released by the company have a very good history of innovative features, creativity and good quality. Since its inception, the company has released numerous high end and technologically superior smartphones that have become the heartthrobs of the users.

One of the recent releases of HTC Corporation is the HTC Desire which delivers a superb combination of looks and usability. The handset has turned out to be one of the highly sought-after Android smartphones of the year.

Measuring just 119 x 60 x 11.9 mm and weighing only 135 g, the phone offers a 3.7 inches AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display which is perfect for showing 16 M hues within 480 x 800 pixels. This helps the users in viewing images and video with utmost clarity and colour quality.

The built in handy accelerometer feature of the smartphone immediately revolves the contents on the touchscreen. The optical trackpad feature provides an alternative way to look through menus and the user interface. The users can make a choice between seven different home screens which not only offer a better multimedia experience but also ensure excellent colour saturation. The 1GHz Snapdragon Processor of the phone helps it performing multiple functions at the same time and raises its rate of responsiveness.

The smart phone runs on Android OS ver 2.1 (Eclair), which is the same package as found inside the very popular HTC Nexus, powered by incredibly capable Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz Processer. Desire is also equipped with impressive hardware and a wide variety of notable software and applications.

The handset is equipped with many powerful software and unique features which make it an ideal social networking phone. It provides the finest browsing experience and can load the heaviest of pages in a matter of seconds, thereby making more websites accessible via phone. This makes it especially useful for social networking websites. The customized widgets bring you the latest news, in a very innovative and interesting manner, ranging from local weather to your friend’s updates.

The 3G connection makes it a wonderful android phone around the corner. You can get round the clock updates from various social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook and the Gmail push notification function is also very useful. A faster Snapdragon processor, Wi Fi and USB connectivity makes your file sharing function very smooth and easy on these networking sites.

This highly desirable phone is available under a wide range of pay monthly and pay as you go mobile phone offers. These deals are available with all leading network services such as O2, Vodafone, Orange, T mobile, 3 and Virgin. To buy these attractive pay monthly contracts and HTC Desire pay as you go O2, Vodafone, Orange plans, you can visit any online mobile phone comparison website where you can compare all the latest contracts and PAYG deals provided by the leading UK retailers. You can browse all the deals and find the best one that perfectly suits your needs.