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Verizon stands behind Samsung in the Korean company’s legal battle against iPhone maker Apple.

According to an article in The Wall Street Journal, Verizon said in a legal filing that if the courts ban some of Samsung devices, its investment in the next generation will be negatively impacted.

“That investment depends on consumers having access to devices that can make use of that network. The accused Samsung devices are among the few products that can access Verizon Wireless’s next-generation high-speed network,” Verizon said in a filing with the  U.S. District Court in Northern California.

Verizon recently started selling Apple’s iPhone device in the United States, something which allowed the company to compete against AT&T, which was the sole provider of the iPhone. So, it is strange that the Verizon would go against one of its most important mobile phone partners.

Apple has launched a worldwide legal assault on Samsung, claiming the company infringed on some of its design and technology patents in its Android powered devices. The two companies are locked in legal battles in Germany, United States, Australia and South Korea.

The first week of October 2011 is expected to be one of the busiest ever when it comes to product launches, with Apple launching the iPhone 5 and other manufacturers queueing up a slew of Android and Windows Phone 7 handsets, all set to disrupt Apple’s extravaganza. Now Sony Ericsson is set to make the Xperia Pro available from the 6th of October according to a listing on Clove Technology’s website.

The device was launched back in February 2011 at MWC in Barcelona but has not gone on sale until now. The Japanese company did not explain why the handset has been delayed by nearly eight months and at least four months after the Xperia Play, arc and Neo – which were launched at the same time – went for sale.

The Xperia Pro comes with a 3.7-inch FWVGA capacitive touchscreen display with Mobile Bravia Engine, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz SoC, 320MB RAM, Android 2.3 Gingerbread and an eight-megapixel camera with LED flash which uses Sony’s Exmor R camera lens.

It also has a four-row slide out QWERTY keyboard, an HDMI out, a front-facing camera and a micro USB port. We’re wondering whether the delay was not caused by the fact that the smartphone only comes with 320MB RAM but has to support Android Gingerbread AND Sony Ericsson’s own UI.

Samsung Omnia W I8350 Specifications

SIZE	height*depth*width	115.6 x 58.8 x 10.9 mm
	weight	115.3 gr
MEMORY	Phone memory	8 GB storage, 512 MB RAM
	External Memory	Up to 32 GB
	Phone Book	Practically unlimited with photo call
CAMERA & VIDEO	Pixel	5 Mega pixel, auto focus and LED flash
	Digital/Optical Zoom	Yes
	Video Recording	Yes, 720p@30fps
	Features	Geo-tagging, image stabilization
BATTERY PERFORMANCE	Talk time	-
	Standby	-
ENTERTAINMENT	Ringtones	MP3 and WAV Ringtones.
	Music player	Audio/ Video player
	Radio	Stereo FM radio with RDS
	TV	No
	Gaming	Preloaded Games
	Screen savers, Themes	Yes
CONNECTIVITY & NETWORKS	Bluetooth “technology”	Yes, V2.1 with A2DP
	Infrared	No
	USB	microUSB v2.0
	Wi-Fi	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
	Browser	HTML
	Network support	GSM 850/900/ 1800 /1900, 3G 1900/2100
	Band	Quad band
SCREEN & USER INTERFACE	Screen	Super AMOLED Touchscreen with 16M colors
	Screen size	3.7 inches 480 x 800 pixels
	User Input	Multi touch input method
COMMUNICATIONS	Messages	SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email and IM
	Email	Email with attachments
	Internet	Yes
SOFTWARE & APPLICATION	Operating system	Windows Mobile 7.5 Mango
	Applications	-
ENVIRONMENTAL		-
OTHER SPECS		A-GPS support, Li-ion 1500 mAh battery, Document viewer/editor, SNS integration, digital compass, 3.5 mm Audio jack and 3G connectivity

Samsung Omnia W I8350 Features

Samsung Omnia W I8350 Price

Samsung has recently rolled out its another Mango Operating System mobile phone called Samsung Omnia W I8350. This latest handset offers 5 mega pixels Camera, 3G support, Instant Messaging, 1500 mAh battery, Digital Compass and more features.

Samsung Omnia W I8350 Price in India is Rs. Coming soon

Samsung Omnia W I8350 Features

• Display – 3.7 “ Super AMOLED Touchscreen
• Internal 8 GB, 512 MB RAM
• 3G enabled
• GPRS / EDGE facility
• Wireless LAN WiFi
• Windows Phone 7.5 Mango OS
• 1.4 GHz of processor
• Stereo FM Radio
• A-GPS support, Bing Maps
• Digital Compass
• Camera – 5 mega pixels
• VGA front Camera
• Document viewer
• Wireless LAN WiFi
• Bluetooth / USB connectivity
• SNS integration

Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Phone 7 has been tracking and collecting location based data without notifying the user.

Worse even, the lawsuit filed against the company states that the WP7 device(s) in question were collecting and sending geo-location data to its servers even after users had declined authorisation to indulge in such practice.

Similar accusations were brought against other two big names in the smartphone market – Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone. The intensity of the controversy at the time was so high that both Google and Apple eventually had to offer assurances that no such activities would continue in the future.

According to the lawsuit filed against the Windows maker, geo-location data are sent to inference.location.live.net, a Microsoft service. Microsoft denied the charges during the initial phases of the trial.

According to the Windows Phone 7 jailbreaker Rafael Rivera, the collected location based data, which he described as “pin point accurate” are sent to agps.location.live.net and inference.location.live.net.

If Rivera’s findings are fount to be correct, the lawsuit against the technology giant will be strengthened further, thus making it tougher for the company to deflect the charges.

iPad maker Apple has been sued by a Taiwanese chip designer over a bunch of patents related to microprocessor technology.

Via Technologies claims that Apple has infringed on its patents related to the manner in which chips, used in some of its products, use and manipulate data. The Apple products named in the lawsuit include the iPad, iPhone, Apple TV and the iPod, along with the software that the products use.

The company has filed a lawsuit in a district court in the United States and has even filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission.

“The products at issue generally concern microprocessors included in a variety of electronic products such as certain smartphones, tablet computers, portable media players and other computing devices,” the complaint reads.

Industry watchers are tying the lawsuit filed by Via to Apple’s ongoing patent battle with smartphone maker HTC, which is also based in Taiwan. It has emerged that Via’s chairman is married to HTC’s chairperson Cher Wang, who also helped him found Via.

Apple is currently engaged in multiple legal battles with its competitors in the smartphone market like HTC and Samsung, both of which offer devices based on Google’s Android platform, which has displaced Apple’s iOS as the number 1 mobile phone platform in the United States.

According to Verizon Communications’ chief executive officer Lowell McAdam, it is a fact that today’s market can no longer afford to have so many smartphone platforms.

McAdam highlighted thatthere were too many smaprtphone platforms, including Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android, RIM’s BlackBerry, Nokia’s Symbian, Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 and HP’s WebOS, fighting to be at the top.

The CEO also said that too many platforms was too much for carriers to handle, and hence one or two of them eventually have to go down.

And that’s exactly what had happened. Nokia officially ditched its Symbian platform and started focusing on the Windows Phone 7 platform. HP also abandoned its WebOS and is trying to sell it to a third party- at least that’s what rumors say.

“The carriers are beginning to coalesce around the need for a third ecosystem,” said McAdam, as reported by Information Week.

“Over the next 12 months I think it will coalesce and you will start to see one emerge as a legitimate third ecosystem. In my opinion, it’ll be between RIM and Microsoft, and I expect Microsoft to come out victorious,” he added.