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 Added on December 20, 2011  Alan Smithee   , , ,

Apple 1, HTC 0

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I sincerely hope that if you’re in the market for an Android based phone from HTC, that you get on the ball and pick it up soon…because the USITC have decided that next year, HTC’s ability to sell certain phones in our market will be hindered.

The patent that the US International Trade Commission recently ruled in favor of Apple dealt with the ability to click on a link, phone number, or address when someone sends it to you through a text message. You know, one of the most useful features of having a smart phone.

So just to be clear, the HTC hardware isn’t the issue, but the OS is. All HTC will have to do to bypass the import ban (HTC isn’t made in the US, but in Taiwan) is implement a patch to the Android OS that handles this little bit of UI differently.

However, if the problem isn’t fixed by April 19, 2012…you can essentially say goodbye to the following devices:

  • Evo 4G
  • T-Mobile G2
  • Nexus One
  • Droid Incredible

Not listed is any of their legacy phones that run on Android 1.6 -> 2.2. The funniest bit is that HTC actually came out and said that their losing in the court decision was actually a win. Check it out.

This decision is a win for HTC and we are gratified that the commission affirmed the judge’s determination on the ‘721 and ‘983 patents, and reversed its decision on the ‘263 patent and partially on the ‘647 patent. We are very pleased with the determination and we respect it. However, the ‘647 patent is a small UI experience and HTC will completely remove it from all of our phones soon.

You can’t make this stuff up!

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Alan Smithee

by Alan Smithee

I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for. It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are. I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own. It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.

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