Bad luck for Apple, but few days after the highly publicized announcement of Apple Inc. iPhone, Cisco sues Apple Inc. for trademark infringement on using "iphone" name which are Linksys family product, available on market since 2006.

 

 

Source : engadget

 

Now what will happen with LG and their KE850 Prada phone, awarded with the "International Forum Design Product Design Award for 2007". The external look is rather similar, but it's difficult to find detailled technical specifications on the Internet.

Obviously I don't have any idea if some agreements took place between LG Electronics & Apple but the LG model really seems to be the 1st cellphone using tactile display without use of any stylus. So the similarity of the design plus the input mode made the Apple iPhone & LG KE850 very similar.

Without agreements for sure Apple Inc. will certainly be sued by LGE.

Now, the question is: do they (Apple) do it (getting sued) on purpose in order to get a maximum visibility ?

A trial, ending with a "gentlemen agreement" may not be necessarily more expensive than any advertising campaign but presence on medias (blog, news, webzine, magazine, etc.) will be lots more efficient.

Any guess ?  

Source : Mobile Portal, Engadget

 

 

 

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Today, following Steve Jobs presentation during Mac World 2007, all technical blogs were speaking about the long expected Apple iPhone.

Will this iPhone be so different than all others ?

Will Apple have a similar success like with iPods ?

Will it be THE new must to have gimick ?

A Quick Overview 

• 3.5 inches, 480×320 display
• Input method : multi-touch
• OS : Mac OS X "slim version"
• Storage 4 or 8 GB
• WAN : Quad-Band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• Wifi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.0
• Built-in camera 2.0 mega pixel
• Size : 115 x 61 x 11.6mm / Weight 135 grs
• Battery :Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing - Up to 16 hours Audio playback

Pros:

• All-in-One Ipod-Camera-Phone
• Wide 3.5'' screen
• Using fingers on screen instead of stylus is rather a good idea
• Great design… as usual
• Safari browser + widgets
• Rich text email client
• Predictive input keyboard
• Hard Disk 4 or 8 GB
• Automatic display configuration change (portrait to landscape)
• Video Player
  

Cons

• Not a smartphone, impossible to add software
• No memory extension slot 
• Impossible to remove the battery (with so few autonomy is pity)
• Not UMTS nor HSPDA
• Price (499 or 599 USD for 2 year contract with the mobile network operator - USA)
• No wireless (wifi nor GPRS/EDGE) iTunes Store downloads 
• No WiFi syncing to your host machine.
• No tactile feedback when strocking keyboard 
• No MS Office, MS Exchange,  Lotus Domino support
• Only available in 2007 Q3 in USA &  2008 in Europe & Asia.

Some links that speaks about the iPhone:

• Ubergizmo
• Le Blog Gadget
• Engadget + Keynote
• Presse-Citron
• Daily Tech

Some report from guys who could briefly play with it:

• Brian Lam Gizmodo
• David Pogue New York Times

Mac World 2007 Keynote and full technical specs

Latest News
CBS News iPhone demo via Presse-Citron 

Now let's wait until the moment we will be able to play with a real one… and see if Steve Jobs was right or not when he said "Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone".

 

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