Apple declares war with HTC – sues HTC for infringing 20 patents
Mar 3rd
Just few months after Nokia case, Apple is doing this again. Apple has just file a case to sue HTC for infringing 20 patents “related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture, and hardware.”
“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”
Apple has submitted over 700 pages of exhibits to the District Court. The phones from HTC that are on the list: Nexus One, Touch Pro, Touch Diamond, Touch Pro2, Tilt II, Pure, Imagio, Dream / G1, myTouch 3G, Hero, HD2, and Droid Eris. That’s really a full range of HTC phones, running both Android and Windows Mobile, with and without Sense / TouchFLO.
HTC, at the moment, refuses to make further comment about it.
[via engadget]
Microsoft says no Windows Phone 7 upgrade for Windows Mobile 6x devices
Mar 2nd
Many of the high end Windows Mobile device (like HD2) owners are hoping to get Windows Phone 7 upgrade when Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7 later this year.
Device like HD2 has a snapdragon CPU with high resolution capacity touch screen, 5MP camera and enough RAM seems to be one of the devices that qualified for Windows Phone 7 hardware requirement and likely to receive Windows Phone 7 upgrade.
However, here is a piece of bad news from Microsoft, officially. Natasha Kwan, General Manager for Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business in the Asia-Pacific region, said that the HD2 “doesn’t qualify because it doesn’t have the three buttons”.
“Because we have very specific requirements for Windows Phone 7 Series the current phones we have right now will not be upgradable”, Kwan explained.
And it sounds like all existing Windows Mobile devices in the market will not be upgradeable to Windows Phone 7 and now we have to put our hope to the hackers from XDA-Developers 
[via apcmag]
LG has a Windows Phone 7 series with QWERTY keyboard
Mar 1st
This came out to be a surprise during one of the Engadget show. The Microsoft executive actually brought an LG made prototype Windows Phone.
The device shown was running the early version of Windows Mobile 7. And it has a side sliding QWERTY keyboard with back, home, search and camera dedicated buttons. The camera is found to be 5MP. And the device has an impressive thickness. It is just slightly thicker than iPhone and Nexus One!
We will see more phones from manufacturers that are working with Microsoft to bring Windows Phone 7 series to the market and Microsoft is definitely pushing for a big launch.
[via engadget]
HTC Sense (from Desire) ported to DROID
Mar 1st
Have a Motorola DROID and want to run the beautiful HTC Sense on it? The hacker community never sleeps and they are bring you the HTC Sense to your DROID. Watch the video below, HTC Sense is running on DROID. IT is still in early development but we are expecting better versions are coming soon.
[via alldroid]
Nexus One gets colours for the track ball
Mar 1st
The trackball of Google’s Nexus One is capable of displaying different colours for notifications. During the launch the Nexus One, this was shown. However, for some reasons, the handsets delivered to the market are not equipped (removed?) with this features.
And the Nexus One community has talent modders that were working hard to bring missing features and enhancements to Nexus One. The latest addition is to bring the missing colours back to Nexus One. The Nexus One owners can now have different colours for various notification for messages, emails, and even twitter updates.
The mod has been added to the latest Cyanogen mod as well. You can view the information of the mod here.
Download and install yours today!
WebOS 1.4 coming today, with a long list of changelog
Feb 26th
Yes, it has been reported that Palm will release the version 1.4 of WebOS to the Pre and Pixi owners by today. And we have a long list of have been fixed and addedd:
Fixes
- Time Zone bug Fix
- Network time sync bug fix to reflect accuratenetwork time
- BT car-kit transition to device corrected
- No EV-Icon bug fixed (random)
- Random browser formatting bug fixed
- Fixed bug that incorrectly displayed Sprint when actually was Digital Roaming
Enhancements
- Phonebook Transfer
- Supports Video Capture Capability
- Performance enhancement within phone and calendar
Apps
Calendar
- Dial phone # from within a meeting event
- Allow custom Alerts sounds for Calendar event and reminders
- Added AM – PM detail within Calendar events
- Embedded phone $ or email address (embedded inemail) can be easily added to Contacts app
- New email sort options (date, Sender, Subject)
- Return to inbox view after send – email
Messaging
- Ability to forward SMS to email
- Ability to dial phone # from SMS chat session (No need to open contact any longer
- Press and hold on a phone # to get more options( Call, SMS)
Universal Search now includes EAS (outlook Exchange) GAL corporate address look up.
Application Launcher – Easier user interface providing usermore feedback during an application launch
Pre Button in gesture area blinks when notification pending
Added Adobe Flash 10 Beta – Palm Pre only
Supports Flash 10 Beta – download available in Palm AppCatalog
[via precentral]
HTC Incredible shown on video
Feb 26th
Here is a video of HTC Incredible being test for camera under low light condition. Can’t wait to have a hand on this incredible device
