It looks like the legal scuffle between Apple and Samsung is far from over. This time around, the battlefield is US shores and the Samsung smartphone in contention is the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the four patents that according to Apple the handset infringes. These patents that the Samsung handset is supposedly offending are a word completion patent, a patent for unified search, a patent data that is used as a hyperlink and a slide-to-unlock patent.
Buy the Samsung Galaxy Nexus 4G starting at $99.
With this legal battle looming ahead, the company from Cupertino is demanding that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus be banned from the United States because of the alleged patent violation. Our smartphone-crazed brethren are a little concerned about this recent development but should US courts find the decision in favor of Apple, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus ban would take effect in a snap of a finger. As of this moment, we cannot be certain as to how the courts will view this but these patent cases are shaky at best.
At this point, pundits claim that Apple is suing Samsung time and again to lessen the competition for its iPhone, which is a very valid claim. Others on the other hand see this move from Apple as the company’s way of saving money through litigation because it is cheaper that way as opposed to putting all these resources into coming up with a device that will out-innovate the competition.
And in the case of innovation, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is clearly way ahead of Apple and its iPhone and this can be proven by the specs sheet of the handset .
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus reached official status in October of last year and coincided with the release of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of the Google mobile operating system. Despite having a black-slab design, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is one sexy handset with its curved design and measurements of 135.5 x 67.9 x 8.9 mm. The handset by the way tips the scales at just 135 grams.
Under the hood, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus reeks of pure power courtesy of its Texas Instruments OMAP4460 chipset. This SoC chipset brings a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor running at 1.2 GHz to the handset while the full gigabyte of RAM in the device’s internals helps out the processor in ensuring a snappy performance in the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The handset also comes with a very generous 32GB of internal storage which is spacious enough that you can store a lot of multimedia files on the device for instant on-the-go entertainment.
Display-wise, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus sports a 4.65-inch SuperAmoled display with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. Aside from having a curved glass design, the display of the handset also has an oleophobic coating that makes it resistant to scratches. The handset is also equipped with a dual-camera configuration with a 5MP shooter at its back panel while a 1.3MP video chat camera is found at its front panel.
Given this kind of components and capabilities, it is no wonder that Apple wants to have the sales of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus in US shores blocked as this handset is definitely an iPhone-killer and one competition that the company from Cupertino can’t afford going up against. Buy the Samsung Galaxy Nexus 4G starting at $99.99.
