UPDATED 07:08 EDT / AUGUST 27 2012

The Aftermath Of Apple’s Court Win

Today’s mobile news roundup features: the aftermath of Apple’s court win;  Samsung requesting the ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 be lifted; Nokia benefitting from Apple aftermath; and LG soon to release Qualcomm quad-core smartphones.

Apple-Samsung not affected by Apple’s big win

Last Friday, the jury in the Apple-Samsung trial in San Jose, California found the South Korean company guilty of infringing the Cupertino company’s patents.  Samsung was also ordered to pay $1 billion in damages to Apple.

You’d think that this would greatly affect their chip partnership but on Sunday, Samsung vice chairman Choi Gee-sung and the head of the mobile business JK Shin, held an emergency meeting informing everyone that business with Apple will continue as usual as their handset business and components operations are two separate entities.  The clear message is, though Apple hates Samsung for copying their devices, they love them as a manufacturing partner, as there would be no device to argue about without Samsung.

“Apple needs Samsung to make the iPhone and iPad. Period. Samsung is the sole supplier of Apple’s processing chips and without Samsung, they can’t make these products,” said James Song, an analyst at KDB Daewoo Securities in Seoul. “Samsung might be considering lots of options to leverage its components business’ importance and pressure Apple, and Apple could be also well aware of this.”

Samsung requests for Galaxy Tab 10.1 ban be lifted

Though the court ruled in favor of Apple in their big patent case in the US, they also ruled that Samsung did not infringe Apple’s design patent.  The South Korean company is now requesting the court to lift the preliminary ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the US.

“Here, the jury found that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 does not infringe the D’889 patent. Since the purported infringement of the D’889 patent was the only basis for the preliminary injunction, the jury’s finding means that Samsung had a right to sell the Galaxy Tab 10.1 during the period in which the injunction has been in effect,” Samsung said in the motion, adding that it is therefore entitled to recover damages caused by the “improper injunction.”

Nokia shares rose with Apple aftermath

After the the court sided with Apple, Samsung’s shares fell by 7.5 percent as concerns rise regarding the ban on some of their products in the US.  If Samsung’s shares were down, a certain Finnish company is basking in Apple’s glory: Nokia.

Analysts stated that aside from Apple, they see Nokia and Microsoft as the great beneficiaries of Samsung’s loss.  Nokia’s shares rose by 10.2 percent to 2.746 euros a share, while Microsoft’s European-listed shares were 1.6 percent higher.  The reason may be due to the fact that they produce non-Android devices.  The Samsung loss doesn’t just affect the South Korean company but also Google, since that’s the mobile operating they use to run most of their devices.  The Apple win gives them the ammunition to go after more OEMs that use the Android OS.

LG’s Qualcomm quad-core smartphones

Despite Apple’s big court win, many OEMs continue making devices to compete in a very saturated market. LG Electronics announced that their upcoming smartphone would be powered by Qualcomm’s latest quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 processor and will be using components such as battery, panel and touch technology from LG Chem, LG Display and LG Innotek.

According to the company, LG Chem’s battery will give the upcoming device 60 times more juice compared to other batteries of the same size; LG Display’s new True HD IPS+ display will give the devices a resolution of 1,280 x 768 pixels while generating 470 nits of brightness but consuming 70 percent less power compared to AMOLED screens, and the pane will have a pixel density of 320ppi and probably be about 4.7 inches in size; and as for the touch technology, LG Innotek will eliminate the gap between the glass and the LCD panel.


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