Samsung to pay 1.3 billion US dollars for Qualcomm patents
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- 11 Nov 2009
Dante, 10 Nov 2009APPLE should learn smtng from samsung dt u should pay for a... moreActually apple is used to profit from other's hard work. For example the ssh protocol embedded in the iphones and ipod touch. it is developed by a small team of guys that work for free, in their spare time and apple never gave them any support. thanks apple! way to support the software YOU use!
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- 10 Nov 2009
If they pay so much, they could buy better GPS receivers with working ephemeris. My I8000 GPS is terrible comparing to the external, small receiver from Qualcomm, that starts within 5 sec.
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- 10 Nov 2009
APPLE should learn smtng from samsung dt u should pay for a thing which nt mine not hav a free ride on others thing!!!
Shame on u apple shame on u!!!!
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- 10 Nov 2009
Samsung is the worst company...
Third class cell phones they make...
Forget about cell phones even Tv,Pc,and many more...
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- 09 Nov 2009
HTCFan, 09 Nov 2009A whopping 1.3 billion US dollars!! Samsung sez... no probl... moreSo why did it take Samsung so long to pay?
Qualcomm has held those patents for years, Samsung has been using the technology for years.
It must be due to Nokia settling their legal battle with Qualcomm earlier this year with the payment of $1.7 Billion.
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- 09 Nov 2009
A whopping 1.3 billion US dollars!! Samsung sez... no problemo.RESPECT.
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- 09 Nov 2009
Anonymous, 08 Nov 2009Thats what Grubby APPLE is like... Wat a shame!!! Thats how... morewatever
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- 09 Nov 2009
jack, 08 Nov 2009nokia seems to be in a sore mood obviously due to their poo... moreare you having a giraffe? 15% dont think soo.
i think its right to milk apple and stop giving them this free ride on others R & D costs :)
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- 09 Nov 2009
Anonymous, 08 Nov 2009With that 2.1% share, Apple made 32% of the world's handset... morethis is not about revenue but about market share. let's say how much Samsung made then lol. just because a magazine made someone who rip you off and claim his products are innovative it doesn't mean everyone is gullible enough to believe it. put a radio in an ipod after almost 10 years in the market wow what a CEO is that lol
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- 09 Nov 2009
Anonymous, 09 Nov 2009Hope Nokia gets whatever Apple owes them. Stealing is steal... morebtw Apples use of touch screens goes back a long way, 20 years in fact, long before many of us even had mobile phones and before companies like Palm or operating systems like Symbian or WinMo even existed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform)
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- 09 Nov 2009
Anonymous, 09 Nov 2009Hope Nokia gets whatever Apple owes them. Stealing is steal... moreAlleged is alleged, nothing has been stolen until it is proven, this is the basis of many countries legal systems and all we have is what Nokia alleges.
I could say YOU stole my TV but that doesn't make it true.
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- 09 Nov 2009
Hope Nokia gets whatever Apple owes them. Stealing is stealing and I am not surprised that Apple has stole many innovations from other technologies and market it as their own (touchscreen, accelerometer etc.).
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- 09 Nov 2009
Deep space bar, 09 Nov 2009It claims that apple paid qualcomm
So we don't really know... moreWow, this one's over 11 years old:
"MARKHAM, Ontario - January 7, 1998 -- In an agreement designed to enhance the quality of voice audio over the Internet, Apple Computer, Inc. announced today it has licensed QUALCOMM's PureVoice technology to be included in QuickTime 3.0. QuickTime 3.0 is the latest version of the Company's award-winning, industry-standard software architecture for creating and publishing digital media for Mac OS and Windows."
"Targeted for Internet use, the integration of PureVoice enhances QuickTime with high quality, low data rate audio compression for speech, enabling quality Internet playback on modems as slow as 14.4kbps. PureVoice technology brings enhanced spoken word audio while reducing file size and transmission time ten-fold when compared with common audio formats such as Wave. A typical one minute voice mail message stored in a Wave file would require over seven minutes to transmit using 28.8kbps modem. The same voice mail compressed into a QuickTime Movie file using PureVoice technology would take less than 45 seconds to download, allowing the listener to hear the message as it is transferred. While PureVoice can deliver quality speech in as little as 900 bytes per second, the technology can scale to achieve better quality audio by applying a higher data rate."
Maybe Apple don't use Nokia's stuff at all.
http://www.apple.com/ca/press/1998/01/qualcomm.html
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- 09 Nov 2009
Deep space bar, 09 Nov 2009It claims that apple paid qualcomm
So we don't really know... morehttp://www.sramanamitra.com/2008/05/04/3g-iphone-and-qualcomm/
Apple has had agreements with Qualcomm for years:-
http://www.apple.com/ca/press/2003/12/quicktime_65.html
Isn't Nokia using some of those formats, I wonder how much they pay Apple?
"MARKHAM, Ontario—December 19, 2003—Apple® today announced QuickTime® 6.5, the industry’s first mainstream media architecture for the creation and playback of rich multimedia content for both CDMA 2000 and GSM wireless networks. Expanding its support for mobile multimedia standards to include both 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2), QuickTime 6.5 enables users to share high-quality video, audio and text across the two predominant wireless networking technologies worldwide. QuickTime 6.5 will add to the existing popularity of QuickTime 6, which has already had over 175 million downloads in less than 18 months since its release.
“QuickTime 6.5 delivers extensive support for the 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards, including Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) and Qualcomm Code Excited Linear Predictive (QCELP) audio codecs, MPEG-4 and H.263 video codecs, 3G Timed Text, native .3gp and .3g2 file formats as well as support for Movie Fragments, which provide mobile operators and content providers with the advantages of real-time streaming within their existing web infrastructure.”"
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Anonymous, 09 Nov 2009So?
No-one knows what Nokia wants from Apple except Noki... moreIt claims that apple paid qualcomm
So we don't really know if apple has paid them except for qualcomm and apple
Plus if nokia mentions apple has stolen their tech and desided not to pay then
That's fault
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- 09 Nov 2009
[deleted post]So?
No-one knows what Nokia wants from Apple except Nokia and Apple.
Apple paid Qualcomm, Nokia paid Qualcomm and now Samsung has paid Qualcomm.
I'd say the only reason that Samsung paid Qualcomm now is that the legal battles which were raging between Qualcomm and Nokia over many years across Europe and the US was only recently settled with Nokia paying Qualcomm $1.7Billion.
As I said it's up to a court to decide or Nokia and Apple to reach an agreement BOTH parties are happy with.
This is a normal fact of life in the technical industry, expect Apple to countersue Nokia.
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Anonymous, 08 Nov 2009Nokia had to pay Qualcomm $US1.7 after years of court cases... moreWhat's your point apple doesn't wanna pay and nokia made the mistake and paid
And look same thing with intel and AMD they don't computers but look how rich they are
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- 08 Nov 2009
[deleted post]With that 2.1% share, Apple made 32% of the world's handset revenue!
One of the reasons Fortune 500 magazine named Steve Jobs CEO of the decade.
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- 08 Nov 2009
Anonymous, 08 Nov 2009Nokia had to pay Qualcomm $US1.7 after years of court cases... moreThat's $US1.7 billion that Nokia had to pay Qualcomm who also own GSM patents.
Nokia hasn't proved that it's patents are essential to GSM phones, they haven't had to, they just got together with the other phone manufacturers at the time and agreed on who gets what share.
Their patents have never been tested and they may be colluding with the traditional phone manufacturers to offer them cheaper licensing deals.
Obviously Apple as a new comer decided that Nokia wasn't offering them a "fair" deal.
A court will decide or an agreement will be reached that's how business works.
Expect Apple to countersue Nokia, they have quite a broad range of patents in their portfolio.
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- 08 Nov 2009
Deep space bar, 08 Nov 2009Atleast samsung paid for what they wanted and let that comp... moreNokia had to pay Qualcomm $US1.7 after years of court cases.
Apple has already paid Qualcomm licensing fees (and Ericsson), they also use licensed chips.
Nokia must have been too greedy in their negotiations with Apple, who are already paying $50 per iPhone in licensing fees.
Maybe they don't use any of Nomia's stuff, maybe they want to be treated the same as other phone manufacturers.
We'll have to wait until Nokia proves it in court or a settlement is reached.
btw Qualcomm is one of the largest companies in the mobile phone industry and they don't make a single phone.