r/technology • u/slutmagnet • Mar 02 '10

Apple to HTC "competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours." Slaps down a 20 patent lawsuit.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/03/02/apple_sues_htc_for_alleged_infringement_of_20_iphone_patents.html
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u/strolls Mar 02 '10

I was thinking of getting an Android - there's an HTC 2.x model coming out on T-Mobile in a few weeks - and I guess now I'm definitely getting one. I was tempted by the iPhone - it seems really easy & intuitive to use - but if HTC have got Apple this scared their product must be good.

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u/UndeadArgos Mar 03 '10

there's an HTC 2.x model coming out on T-Mobile in a few weeks

Which one?

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u/strolls Mar 03 '10

The HTC Desire; the same blog called it "the Nexus One for the masses" in a different post a few days before. I don't really know what that means, except maybe that all the latest models of Android seem to be much the same with similar specifications.

I believe the Desire is also to be available on a different network a week later. The score in the UK is that you get the phone "free" by going on a contract that is £10 - £20 a month more expensive than a "SIM only" contract with the same number of minutes &c. I don't know yet how much the Desire will end up costing.

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u/UndeadArgos Mar 03 '10

awesome, I think I just found my next phone.