Today’s mobile roundup features Samsung challenging Apple’s claim, the latest safety app for iPhones, and more gift ideas for Mother’s Day.

Samsung challenges Apple’s pinch-to-zoom claim

The Regional Court in Mannheim Germany was supposed to hand down its ruling regarding Apple’s case against Samsung for allegedly infringing utility model for “List Scrolling and Document Translation, Scaling, and Rotation on a Touch-Screen Display,” but postponed ruling.

Samsung is challenging Apple’s pinch-to-zoom claim, and now the Mannheim court is waiting for a validity verdict from the Federal Patent Court before it goes through with its own verdict.

In other Samsung news, the South Korean company announced the Samsung Omnia M, a Windows Phone featuring a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, 384MB of RAM, a 1GHz processor, 5-megapixel camera and 4GB of storage.  It measures 10.5 mm thick and weighs 119 grams.  The Samsung Omnia M will be available in Europe first, and is expected to have a price tag of €189.  The Samsung Omnia M is quite similar to the specifications of the Nokia Lumia 600, so you can’t help but think Samsung is targeting Nokia with its latest design.  Samsung recently dethroned Nokia as the largest phone vendor in terms of global sales, and it looks like Samsung won’t take any chances by not giving Nokia a chance to recuperate.

Field ID for iPhone

Field ID, the leader in inspection management and safety compliance software for the web and mobile devices, announced the launch of Field ID for the iPhone, which is meant to to make the lives of health and safety professionals easy as the technology helps them put everything in Field ID’s world-class, cloud-based safety app.

“Our vision is to make the inspection and safety compliance process as simple as possible,” said Matt Paterson, Chief Product Officer, Field ID. “The convenience, ease-of-use, and simplicity of the iPhone is a perfect complement to Field ID. Giving iPhone users the ability to go into the field and manage complex safety and compliance tasks with a pocket-sized touchscreen just makes sense.”

Mother’s Day gift ideas

Mother’s Day is on Sunday and if you still haven’t figured out what to give your mom for this special day, then I urge you to read on.

Cobra Electronics Corporation, a leading designer and marketer of award-winning mobile and consumer electronics, will be showcasing some of their great products at the gdgt Live Chicago consumer electronics showcase and party tonight.  Choose from the Cobra iRadar 200 ($129.95) – a sleek dash-mounted smart detector unit paired via Bluetooth to an intuitive smartphone app that detects police radar/laser signals and notifies users in real-time of upcoming caution areas, excessive vehicle speed, live police and photo enforcement areas, and then automatically shares caution information with other iRadar users nearby.

There’s also the Cobra Tag Universal One ($59.95) – a personal loss prevention system for protecting smartphones, backpacks, car keys, purses, laptop bags, and other personal valuables, and the Cobra JoyRide ($39.95) – a smart yet affordable automotive charging system that automatically reconfigures your Android smartphone settings when you enter or exit your vehicle. The free companion Android app dramatically simplifies how your phone operates in the car such that pushing a single button can initiate phone calls, launch voice commands, learn about road hazards and even launch navigation apps.

Cricket Communications also announced a variety of Android powered smartphones, a tablet and accessory gift options for high-tech social connectors to everyday talk-and-text moms which will be available for Mother’s Day until the 28th of May.  Available smartphones are ZTE Score, Huawei Ascend II, Samsung Vitality, Huawei Mercury, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and the Crosswave Broadband Device.