No movement on Day 3 of the Apple-HTC patent saga (or quagmire, actually). Hey, we said this thing’s gonna take years. But it did bring another round of analysis. Today’s featured piece comes from The New York Times, and it comes with a pretty graphic showing who’s suing whom in the patent world.
And to that we say: “So what?” There are plenty of legitimate reasons for one company to file a lawsuit against another. It happens every day. It will happen tomorrow. Writes the NYT’s Nick Bilton:
Although patent litigation is not new in the technology world, these suits, specifically around mobile, point to the drastically changing mobile landscape. Lawyers I spoke with explained that mobile technology was still in its infancy and these large computing companies were trying to stake their claim to the future of computing.
The process of these fights is important, but don’t stay up at night worrying about it. Instead, show some patience and wait for the end result. Or the End of Days … whichever comes first.
For all of you Verizon Droid Eris fans out there chomping at the bit for Android 2.1 and the new HTC Sense to be released for your phone, know that it’s not far off. A build was leaked on XDA Developers (normally a home for GSM devices, but always friendly to HTC hackery) and subsequently deemed to appear to be genuine, albeit corrupt. But that never stopped anybody at XDA, and just a few hours later a build was foisted onto Big Red’s other Droid device. Want to try it yourself? Follow these instructions.
Next question is when will an official update become available? We’re waiting for video to pop up anytime now, as this single picture likely won’t convince some of you. But the chatter seems legit. Check it out for yourself. [XDA Developers] Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
The latest experiment to make it into Google Labs is Gesture Search, a product that searches for items based on letters of the alphabet entered onto the phone. When a user draws the letter ‘H’ on the designated gesture pad, it will become easier to locate contacts, bookmarks, apps, songs, and other file or data [...]
Looks like the rumored Motorola Cliq XT launch date of March 10 is pretty much firmed up. So if you’re in the market for some keyboardless MotoBLUR, you only have a week to wait. In the meantime, you can relive our hands-on with it at Mobile World Congress. [via BGR]
