Samsung to ban the iPhone 5 before it even launches
The iPhone 5 looks set to be at the new centre of patent war, with Samsung making moves to have it banned in Korea before it’s even gone on sale.
An unnamed Samsung source told The Korea Times that the company is preparing a lawsuit against the phone – despite the fact that is hasn’t even been officially announced yet.
Samsung claim that the iPhone 5 will definitely infringe some of its patents in Korea – unless Apple removes the telecommunication functions from the phone.
This is the latest spat in an ongoing patent war between Samsung and Apple that recently saw Apple attempt to have a number of Samsung smartphones and tablets banned around the world.
We’d rather the two companies spent less time taking lumps out of each other and just got on with making better phones. But with the iPhone 5 expected to be released in October and hopefully announced in the next week or so, it seems more likely that the dispute is going to intensify.
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Matthew
This is really sad to me. Both Apple and Samsung are excellent electronics manufacturers. Two of the best, really. I won’t own anything but a Samsung television and all of my computers and communications devices are Apple (although I’m very intrigued by the latest offering from Samsung/Google).
However, I agree with the article in that Apple and Samsung need to stop taking low-blows at each other and just make great phones. So what if some things are “similar” in design or if some communications chip in the phone is slightly overlapping another patent in place by one of the companies.
Make a great device and let the consumers pick the product they want. I think if companies spent more time worrying about making the best possible end-product for the consumer and less time trying to figure out how to undermine their competition to eliminate them from the marketplace, we’d have better competition, thus better devices and, eventually, better pricing.
Chris Dalzell
Putting the legal stuff aside Apple should be very afraid of Samsung, and for that matter LG. Apple is ultimately a niche player in the grander view of electronics and home appliances. Samsung and LG have seen their unit sales grow massively year on year while at the same time reposition their brands through clever R&D and a solid marketing platform. The diversity of appliances offered by these companies in a ‘connected’ home will in the longer term cause problems for Apple.
maryofdungloe
Samsung claim that the iPhone 5 will definitely infringe some of its patents in Korea – unless Apple removes the telecommunication functions from the phone.
errrrrrrrr lol isn’t this the whole idea of owning a mobile phone, to use it for telecommunications LOL Which twit wrote this ditty?
LOL