Galaxy Nexus was not designed to avoid Apple patent suits, Samsung exec says

By on Oct 20, 2011 at 10:15 AM
Legal October 20, 2011

Speaking during the AsiaD conference in Hong Kong recently, Samsung’s head of global mobile product strategy Won-Pyo Hong denied reports that the Galaxy Nexus was designed to avoid lawsuits with Apple. “At the time this was not really an issue,” Hong said, speaking about the design process of the phone. “I don’t know where that rumor is from.” The gossip started with an early report from an industry insider who suggested Samsung delayed its planned launch in San Diego due to last minute tweaks that were required to avoid patent lawsuits. Then on Wednesday, Yonhap News Agency quoted Samsung’s mobile head Shin Jong-kyun on Wednesday as saying, “We will avoid everything we can and take patents very seriously. We will see if [the Galaxy Nexus] will be 100 percent free [of lawsuits].” Shin’s quotes certainly suggest Samsung made an effort to avoid patent infringement suits, but for now Samsung is saying that is not the case. Samsung and Apple are locked in a number of patent infringement lawsuits around the globe.Read

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  • Anonymous

    Apple can’t sue them because ICS is nothing like iOS visually not to mention this phone is huge compared to the iPhone 4.

    On the other hand, Apple can just show the app drawer vs their standard screen and try to trick a judge again.

    • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

      Apple would need access to the Galaxy Nexus to actually see if it infringes on a number of ridiculous software patents. We can rest assured that BGR will be the first to report about it while gloating.

      • Anonymous

        BGR riding the “they infringe on patents” troll train pretty hard lately. This phone and OS must really scare the Apple faithful.

    • Anonymous

      Its not as if Apple has never manipulated images to make a device appear to be the same size as an iPhone.

    • felipe peko

      You get sued by companies that don’t have a product. Not sure why ICS would need to be visually like iOS to be sued by Apple (on Australia, as an example, Apple has patents on multi touch and can ban any multi touch device). 

      Maybe Apple will try to sue on trademark issues, trying to claim iCS looks like iOS.

      • Tayyib Alvi

        You obviously dont know anything about the Android OS. iOS is just a bunch of squares on a grid and it’s been like that since the debut of the first iphone. Android actually has more of a creative and innovative design to its operating system, with the intergration of widgets and user flexiblity. iOS doesn’t have any of that and they cant sue for claims on the OS. In fact. the new voice feature on the 4s was stolen from the Android OS which has been present with the google widget search bar and it’s more efficient as well.  Also, just for your info, Google makes the OS not Samsung, so get your stuff right.   

      • felipe peko

        Hey, i’m a proud owner of Galaxy S2 with CyanogenMod7. I know what Android is, and iOS isn’t.

        What i’m saying is that patents are stupid, and Apple can sue even if Android and iOS are nothing alike.

  • Anonymous

    Doesn’t mean apple will not try  

    • Booboolala2000

      They might think twice though. After SJ passing, if they were to loose a very public battle in court, it wouldn’t look good to investors. Almost like they had lost their MoJo

  • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

    Well it sure as hell doesn’t look like an iPhone, the problem I see is maybe Apples patent on how to navigate a photo gallery. With this being a pure Google device I don’t see that being much of an issue.

  • http://getessay.com/ writing essay

    Galaxy Nexu, hmm… I think about this model when deside buy smartphone. 

  • Anonymous

    Apple will still try to sue because its a rectangular phone with a touch screen.

  • Anonymous

    BGR still needs to learn when not to post baseless rumors.  Please learn from this.

    • Logic

      i guarantee they will not learn from this…. 

      • Anonymous

        Oh, I know. It was just wishful thinking.

    • Anonymous

      BGR is hammering away pretty hard on Nexus and ICS while still talking up the iPhone. Gotta pander to the boss, you know.

  • Typical Fruit Fan

    They can’t hide from the Fruit.  We invented the touch screen.

    • Anonymous

      Really!! What touch screen???Explain please Fruity, I would like to know.

      • Typical Fruit Fan

        Fruits don’t speak to Heat fans.  We prefer the Dallas Mavericks, and whoever wins the championship this year.  We’re so hip we’re already on the bandwagon, before the bandwagon is created.

    • Anonymous

      No… Sony Ericson invented the touch screen, back in the 90s… before the iPod… back when Apple sold those horrendous neon computers.

      • Typical Fruit Fan

        Clearly, your diminished intellect from not using Fruit products has clouded your judgement.  Sony Ericsson did not exist until 2001 – all history prior to merge date must be ignored - and therefore could not have invented the touch screen that the Fruit invented in 2007.  There is also no such thing as a horrendous Fruit computer.  Our computers do not experience any issues; and when computers like the iMac come along, which rarely experienced their 75% failure rate, we simply are gifted an entirely new computer because our Geniuses are that smart – they know the problem is so complex and irrational, that only a Genius can solve the problem by replacing it outright.  The Fruit is omnipotent and does no wrong.

      • Anonymous

        You are WRONG, again. The Ericsson P380 was the first modern touchscreen released in 2000, 7 years before the first iPhone.  If you want to be technical… in 1992 the IBM Simon used a touchpad to dial numbers, so that could be the first.  Apple had a fine share of epic fails over time… to name a few:

        1) Apple III
        2) Lisa
        3) NeXT
        4) That hockey puck of a mouse
        5) The Cube
        6) The iTunes phone in ’05
        7) AppleTV (will never catch on)

        Not to mention Apple got it’s foothold in the industry by stealing the mouse concept and the GUI from Xerox’s Palo Alto Facility.  Your name should be “Typical Ignorrant Fanboy”

      • Typical Fruit Fan

        Ahh, about what I expected.  Another standard response from someone who doesn’t use the Fruit.  Confusing simple concepts like the year 2000 with the 90s, and Sony Ericsson with Ericsson.  And confusing Royal Radar, the first creator of a touch screen in the 60s, with both.  But what you neglect, is the Fruit created the Newton in 1993.  So you see, the Fruit created the modern, handheld touch screen.  The Fruit is infallable.  The Fruit is like the Borg.  Resistance is futile.  You should Switch now.  We will give you The Power To Be Your Best, because There Will Soon Be Two Kinds Of People, Those Who Use Computers, And Those Who Use Apple.

      • Alexander Garcia

        HAHAHAHAHAHA… Oh wait… you were just kiddin’ right!?

    • Anonymous

      You’re a real fruitcake you know that?

  • Anonymous

    Still beating this one BGR?  Wasn’t it bad enough when you said that a week long delay was to make changes to the device to avoid patents.  Because after all the time they’ve been working on it a week would really make  a difference?

  • Anonymous

    Someone needs to post as a fake russian blogger and claim the phone was cancelled because Samsung is scared of Apple. BGR will post about it an hour later as truth.

  • Zsolt or

    Hell…why no one tech blog speak honestly about Mr Kane Kramer.
    He is at the very origin on the new, rich Apple.

  • Zsolt or

    Apple patented multi-touch gestures?
    maybe, but someone else invented it before them.
    Well, for demonstration, just look my finger…

    • Anonymous

      The original patent on multi-touch belongs to Michael Jackson…. or was it the Pope… can’t remember.

      • Anonymous

        It was St. Peter. Michael Jackson was innocent, damn you!!

  • Anonymous

    Gee golly-willickers Todd, didn’t you guys just yesterday post that the Galaxy Nexus was designed to be resistant to Apple patent lawsuits? Gosh-golly Todd, you guys vacilAte more than a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder. On the bright side, your iPhones are ‘buttery smooth’ and slide in easily.

    btw, thanks for the update *-)

  • Justin_L

    Why can’t we all just get along?

  • Anonymous

    Samsung is a 350 billion dollar company.. while apple is a 150 billion dollar company. Samsung is win this battle for sure. 

  • http://twitter.com/Liu_James James Liu

    Now I wonder when Google will sue Apple for new likeness to there OS such as the notification bar…

  • Booboolala2000

    Google is waiting until it has actual control over Mororola before it really starts to heat things up.

    The Galaxy Nexus looks awesome AND original. Sorry Apple and MS, the software is pure Google. Inspired by some but no direct copies.

  • Zsolt or

    The iPod was a direct copy, but only because the one who created it, could not pay up the patent fees..otherwise it could be called robbery.
    Kane Kramer.

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