Quite often we report about new patents that emerge from iPhone maker Apple, but that’s not to say other companies are not always coming up with innovative ideas. Today a new Samsung patent hints at a possible curved display on the rumoured Galaxy S4 Zoom device. A recent patent that has been awarded to Samsung…

The Google Nexus 5 smartphone is a device that many people are talking about right now and the popularity of Nexus devices that offer a pure vanilla Google Android experience seems to be growing and growing. It is believed that the Nexus 5 will launch running the next major Android operating system upgrade, 5.0 Key…

If you’re a fan of Google’s Android platform and enjoy using your smartphone for photography then there’s some good news today as we have heard of a new Google patent for multiple camera flashes on mobile devices. The patent implies that the next Nexus phone could see some real innovation on the photography front. Alternatively,…

Apple has always been known as an innovative company and in the past changed the smartphone industry for the better with the launch of the original iPhone back in 2007. This shook up the market with other companies having to up their game and we have news of an Apple patent that has been discovered…

Here we go again, once more another feud between two big players in the mobile industry though at least for once it’s not between Apple and Samsung! This time Nokia and Research in Motion are going head to head with Nokia petitioning in a bid to prevent RIM from selling devices with wireless LAN support…

We are now so used to various ongoing court cases between rival phone manufacturers that to be frank sometimes it’s hard to pay attention but today news of one of these disputes has made us sit up and take notice. Such seems the might of Apple that we’re used to high-profile cases such as ongoing…

With the iPhone 5 being released to a record amount of paying customers last month many people are asking what is next in Apple’s war chest of cool ideas and innovative gadgets. While the iPhone 5 offers some great enhancements over its predecessor and is definitely a more stable release in many ways, the iPhone…

Well now, it appears that there is to be another court battle in the mobile space over design, this time between Nokia and HTC, with the word being that Nokia isn’t too pleased that the design of the upcoming HTC 8X and HTC 8S smartphones that HTC launched a few days ago resembles the Nokia…

It’s difficult to look at any headlines lately without seeing the Apple name firmly emblazoned across the news. Obviously we’ve just seen the iPhone 5 announcement but prior to that Apple’s U.S. patent litigation case with Samsung was big news with Apple eventually winning and Samsung having to pay over a billion dollars in damages….

Before the court verdict in the recent U.S. patent litigation battle between Apple and Samsung, we discussed how whichever way it went there were likely to be huge ramifications for the mobile phone industry. The conclusion resulted in a win for Apple against Samsung although Samsung is to appeal and also led Apple to name…

Many readers will have followed the recent U.S. patent litigation court battle between Apple and Samsung that resulted in an Apple victory. Samsung was ordered to pay Apple over one billion dollars and Apple also moved to try to ban sales of some Samsung products. Samsung is set to appeal the verdict and in the…