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Thursday 11 August 2011

Motorola Considering Collecting Android Royalties From Other Manufacturers [ 11-08-2011 17:49 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: UnwiredView Translation by: Paul Smith

If LG and Sony are embracing each other in their now ended patent dispute the same can't be said for Motorola. The company's CEO, Sanjay Jha has been talking up Motorola's ability to join in the Android patent war and start exacting fees from other Android handset manufacturers. They would be joining the ranks of Microsoft who already take a fee from HTC for their Android device, rumoured to be around $15 a handset and there is some talk of Microsoft reaching a similar deal with Samsung.

Speaking on the subject Jha commented:

I would bring up IP as a very important for differentiation (among Android vendors). We have a very large IP portfolio, and I think in the long term, as things settle down, you will see a meaningful difference in positions of many different Android players. Both, in terms of avoidance of royalties, as well as potentially being able to collect royalties. And that will make a big difference to people who have very strong IP positions.

If Motorola does decide to go on the offensive then they would be well armed. Motorola is one of the oldest mobile phone manufacturers; hell it was a Motorola engineer who actually invented the mobile phone! With a well stocked patent portfolio Motorola could be a serious opponent for other Androoid manufacturers.

It's also worth considering such a move in the wider context because right now Android is growing very fast, but with a seemingly endless array of legal disputes going on amongst different tech companies over Android devices that rosy picture may start to dim. The obvious question would be what will Google do? That has been clear so far, they have already stated unequivocaly that they are standing behind HTC in their patent dispute with Apple. What is not so clear is how Google would react if an existing Android manufacturer were to decide to try and pull a Microsoft or go down the Apple route of trying to block products.

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Video: Can The Xperia arc Make Flowers Bloom? [ 11-08-2011 16:22 ]

Author: Ivanov Konstantin Source: Sony Ericsson Translation by: Paul Smith

This has to be one of the oddest claims to make about a mobile phone and frankly I'm not sure it would be the sort of feature that consumers would have in mind when picking a new smartphone, but what they hey, it's fun! Sony Ericsson apparently wanted to know whether the Xperia arc's screen was bright enough to make flowers bloom. See I told you it was odd. So was it bright enough? Well watch the video and find out!

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LG & Sony Drop Lawsuits, Find The Love [ 11-08-2011 15:54 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Source: Reuters Translation by: Paul Smith

The regular reader will be aware of the seemingly constant round of legal disputes tech companies are engaged in. They sue and counter sue each other over patents; they seek to block each others' products from sale, and occassionaly their executives post comments attacking their competition. It's nice therefore to be able to report some love breaking out in techland. Well maybe not love, but at the very least some civility.

LG and Sony have been locked in lawsuits against each other since December of last year. Sony kicked it off with an ITC complaint over patent infringements in LG's mobile devices. LG responded with a complaint of its own against Sony products including Bravia and the PlayStation 3. All in all pretty much the usual story.

Well now LG have announced that the two companies have dropped their lawsuits and come to an agreement over cross-licensing. In the statement a spokesperson said that they had both "... agreed to drop patent infringement lawsuits against each other". Sony didn't say much on the matter other than to confirm what LG had said. In honour of some common sense breaking out at last enjoy the following video:

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HP TouchPad Not Enticing Customers Even With Discount [ 11-08-2011 15:09 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Source: SplatF via BGR Translation by: Paul Smith

With the tablet market buzzing right now you would think that it wouldn't be difficult to make a success of your shiny new device. Well tell that to the folks at HP who seem to be having a spot of bother with the TouchPad. Back when the device was announced there were plenty of oh's and ah's over it, but that initial excitement seems to have petered out if recent events are anything to go by.

Take, for example, the recent sale woot.com had on the TouchPad, which saw the price of the device drop to $379.99. That's the lowest the device has gone by the way. During the sale on 5th August just 612 were sold. Let's put that in some context though to get a better idea of what that figure actually means. Last month Woot managed to sell 2,288 XOOM tablets. In a single day. The two figures don't really compare.

For their part HP have dropped the official price of the device to $399.99 for the 16 GB model and $499.99 for the 32 GB version. Will that be enough to entice customers? Well some are suggesting that the 140 days it took to actually get the device into shops effectively killed the buzz that had surrounded the announcement. There is also the point to be made that the Pre3 has also faced launch issues, which won't be helping sales of the TouchPad for consumers eagre to take advantage of the two devices syncing capabilities. One last thought here; the 4G version of the TouchPad is expected later this year and it could be argued that the tech savvy consumer might be holding back until that becomes available.

Whatever the reason is it seems that, for the moment anyway, webOS is destined to remain a bit player in the tablet market.

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