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Prepare for battle. Oracle’s lawsuit against Android (Google) just got a little bit juicer. Florian Mueller has been on a tear these past few months with his unearthing of various tech patent suits on his FOSSpatents blog. The biggest one he’s found is a pretty major bombshell: at least 43 Android source files that appear to have been directly copied from Java. That’s huge for Oracle, seeing as Oracle is currently suing Google for patent and copyright infringement in Android — which isn’t a hard case to prove when you’ve got 37 Android source files marked
“PROPRIETARY / CONFIDENTIAL” and “DO NOT DISTRIBUTE” by Oracle / Sun and at least six more files in Froyo and Gingerbread that appear to have been decompiled from Java 2 Standard Edition and redistributed under the Apache open source license without permission. In simple terms? Google copied Oracle’s Java code, pasted in a new license, and shipped it.

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With the Big Red (aka Verizon) getting the iPhone 4, it will be running a slightly modified hardware to compensate for it’s new CDMA antenna and slight relocation of it’s side hardware buttons (resulting in new cases for everyone). One of the newer features launching that’s different from AT&T is the internet tethering called “Personal Hotspots”. This feature will allow you to become an internet hub for up to 5 other wifi devices to connect and share the internet with. No note on how fast the battery will drain but this is great news for those who want to ditch their home internet plans and opt for a pure wireless option. No word on pricing for this feature.

And one big difference on Verizon’s iPhone vs. AT&T is that you can’t multi-task a phone call and internet at the same time. Thanks CDMA

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We’ll see you at CES folks! Stay tuned for coverage on all things mobile

Hit us up at phil@dailymobileblog.com if you want us to stop by your booth and give you some coverage.

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Verizon is releasing details on its LTE service launch date and it’s expected to go live on Sunday December 5th. Tony Malone, SVP and CTO at Verizon Wireless hopes the 38 metropolitan markets he’s launching (along the I-95 corridor) in Boston, Washington D.C. and the West Coast (no details on this). Full coverage service maps will be available starting this Sunday where it will also launch service in 60 airports in the US.

LTE is running on 700 MHz nationwide and hopes to cover the entire 3G footprint with LTE by 2013. Performance is expected to be 10x of that in 3G and perform at a range of 5-12 megabits per second. Latency will be half of current 3G figures which will be comparable to performance on “wired networks” said Malone.

Expect to be priced an arm and a leg for 4G service where 5 GB will cost you $50 or $80 for 10 GB. (It should be noted that these are cheaper than its current 3G offerings)

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The Hindustan Times reported some interesting news the other day reporting that the reach of globalization has finally come full circle. A Nepali telecommunications firm just started providing third-generation (3G) mobile service at the summit of Mount Everest at 29,029 ft

I can hear it now “Hey mom! You won’t believe where i’m calling from!”

Let’s just hope facetime works up there without freezing

The Hindustan Times carried a small news item the other day that, depending on your perspective, is good news or a sign of the apocalypse. It reported that a Nepali telecommunications firm had just started providing third-generation mobile network service, or 3G, at the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, to “allow thousands of climbers and trekkers who throng the region every year access to high-speed Internet and video calls using their mobile phones.” – NYTimes

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Remember our post a while back about turning your Apple iTouch into an iPhone? Well it’s available now for a cool $109. You better like it, because they don’t accept returns on this puppy if you don’t like it (unless it’s DOA).

- Gives you 4.5 hours of talk time
- 120 hours of standby time
- Integrated microphone for speech
- Integrated speaker for hearing recipient on call
- Durable hard shell design ensures long-lasting quality
- Charging port
- Volume buttons
- Reset button, Battery and SIM card slot

Price: $119 (Shipped by October 4th)

http://www.peel520.net/buy/

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Too bad we don’t have the real picture to show you but here’s a schematic that’s close enough to the real thing. The picture above is the newer generation of the HTC HD2 and the HTC HD7 will be powered by Windows Phone 7. Expect the phone to be launched sometime around October 18th first in Germany. The Handset will cost 79 euro ($106 US Dollars) on O2 Germany with a 2 year 20 Euro per month plan. Or you can get it for $559 Euro ($750 USD) commitment free.

You can get the HTC HD7 in any color as long as it’s black folks. If you have any photos of this device, send it in to info@dailymobileblog.com

Here’s the HTC HD7 Release Date:

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Sprint just suffered another blow today to their team. Kevin Packinham (Senior VP for 4G) just left the company effective August 16, 2010. The carrier said he was leaving to lead another company but declined to state the new company. Steve Elfman and product development VP Fared Adib will replace Kevin in the coming weeks.

Packingham leaving does leave a significant gap but left Sprint a mighty jewel with their next 4G phone Samsung Epic 4G. The Samsung Epic 4G, which has WiMAX and a high performance chip excels with a slide-out keyboard and a Super AMOLED screen. The Epic 4G is the only Galaxy S-based phone to have either 4G or a keyboard in it’s line. Although it costs a $250 (after rebate ouch), may help Sprint prevent customers from jumping to AT&T and eventually to Verizon.

This is Sprint’s 2nd departure in recent weeks as their staff has experienced significant high level departures. Sprint says it doesn’t see this as a problem.

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Here are some interesting stats for the smartphone market.

Smartphones account for 25% of the mobile phone market.
RIM owns 33% of the smartphone market
Nokia saw a 41% increase in sales
But Android saw a 886% increase in sales

I’m very bearish on Nokia, Microsoft, and Blackberry at the moment but hopefully RIM launches a successful new update on it’s OS for 6.0 (gigaom)

Given that the U.S. currently has the largest smartphone user base — Canalys estimates 14.7 million smartphones were purchased in the U.S. last quarter — it’s easy to overlook the current king of smartphone sales globally: Nokia. In the second quarter of 2010, the Finnish phone-maker sold 23.8 million handsets. Nokia saw a 41 percent growth rate over the prior year’s second quarter sales, which sounds positive, but when compared to Android’s 886 percent gain, Nokia’s growth pales in comparison. The overall smartphone market is growing, which is lifting sales of nearly all. But some — like Android — are clearly growing far faster than others.

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Bad news for blackberry users, good news for UAE’s spying division. I didn’t know this but I guess you can’t read blackberry messages because of their automatic encryption. Good job RIM! Too bad all those secret meetings and trade information is going to be leaked to the UAE. No privacy laws currently exist in the UAE.

At the heart of the battle is access to the data transmitted by BlackBerrys. RIM processes the information through a handful of secure Network Operations Centers around the world, meaning that most governments can’t access the data easily on their own.

Read more about it at the WSJ.

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