Samsung officially announced its new flagship Android tablet today, the Galaxy Note 10.1.
The tablet stands out for its ability to run two apps at once in a split screen and it’s special stylus called the S Pen.
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So how does it stack up to the number one tablet, Apple’s third-generation iPad? Here’s a quick breakdown of the key specs:
Here’s How Samsung’s New Galaxy Note 10.1 Tablet Compares To The iPad
“A German court Tuesday ruled the Xoom tablet, made by Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility, doesn’t infringe on the design of Apple Inc.’s iPad, but it rejected a claim made by Motorola that the iPad’s design patent is invalid,” Harriet Torry reports for Dow Jone Newswires.
“Apple initially sued Motorola for allegedly infringing three iPad designs with the Xoom. It sought to have the device banned across Europe,” Torry reports. “although the judges ruled Motorola’s Xoom doesn’t infringe on the iPad, the court rejected a counterclaim brought by Motorola alleging the iPad’s design patent is invalid, a spokesman for the court said.”
Torry reports, “as the court ultimately rejected both parties’ claims, it ordered Apple to pay two-thirds of costs and Motorola to pay a third, the spokesman added.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews take: So, for now, Europe’s store shelves can continue to be littered with yet another POS Android-based wannabe iPad that nobody’s even giving a second glance to, much less buying.
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Documents filed with a federal court have revealed sales records for Samsung and Apple phones and computer tablets
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Apple and Samsung’s rivals are sure to pore over the latest data that have been flushed out into the open thanks to the patent litigation going on between the two electronics powerhouses.
Want to know how many units of of the Galaxy Prevail mobile phone Samsung has sold? about 2.25 million since the second quarter of 2011.
Sales of the differentiPhone models are not broken out in the same way and are offered only in aggregate but it’s still interesting to see that up to the second quarter of this year, Apple had sold a total of 85 million iPhones and generated more than $50 billion. Allthingsd was first to report this story.
In case you forgot, Apple began selling the iPhone in 2007 and the phones listed in the data that was released today only included phones that Apple alleges that violate its patents. But of this group, Samsung sold about 21million units leading to $7 billion in sales.
iPad, iPhone, Galaxy sales data revealed in court filings
Despite the wait for Apple to sell The New iPad in China, due to a dispute over who owned the rights to the name iPad, the device may not be as successful as hoped in the market. 
Despite the wait for Apple to sell The New iPad in China, due to a dispute with Proview over who owned the rights to the name iPad, the device may not be as successful as hoped in the market.
Those who wanted the new tablet haven’t waited, with many opting to buy an iPad from Hong Kong. However, according to Apple vender, Li Hai, these grey market sales have been less prolific than sales of the previous iPad versions, reports China Daily.
Li added: “Customer reaction still isn’t as passionate as it was for the previous ones.” he claimed that customers complain that the new product is heavier than the iPad2 and lacks any major improvements from the old version. Apart from the Retina display, the other lead feature of The New iPad is a brand of 4G that only works in US.
It also looks like the official version will be more expensive than purchasing a New iPad from Hong Kong.
“The price (of the new iPad) has dropped to around 3,300 yuan ($523) from 3,800 yuan in the last few months,” according to Li, while the official iPad will cost 3,688 yuan.
The sale of The New iPad in China was delayed due to a legal dispute with Proview over who owned the rights to the name iPad. Apple reportedly paid $60m to the Chinese company Proview to settle a legal dispute over use of the iPad trademark. Proview’s CEO has suggested controversially that Apple boss Tim Cook cracked open his own wallet to find the money.
Chinese buyers will be able to purchase iPads through the Apple online store, some authorized resellers and by reservation at one of the country’s five Apple retail stores. The latter can be made daily between 9am and noon local time, starting 19 July, for next-day pick up.
The Greater China sales region – which for Apple consists of the PRC, Taiwan and Hong Kong – was responsible for $7.9 billion in sales, or 20% of Apple’s total, during the quarter that ended 31 March, a tripling from the same quarter the year before.
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Chinese 'don't want' New iPad, report
A domain name squatter who bought the domain iPad3.com is not a happy man. Apple took that domain away. however, his sad story is a probable sign that Apple will soon release a new mini-tablet called iPad3.
Rumors have been around for nearly a year that Apple had plans to release a new iPad. What Apple needed, though, was a push to get rolling, analysts said. Google’s recent announcement that it planned to release the Nexus 7 tablet apparently got the ball going.
Rumors are now flying fast and thick that Apple is ready to push out its new mini iPad. A check of various rumor mills, web sites and newspapers shows at least five rock-solid indicators that Apple will release this new tablet in time for Christmas, or perhaps a tad sooner.
Here are the five credible signs that Apple is preparing to build the mini iPad3.
1. The iPad3.com domain name has now been transferred from the domain name squatter to Apple lawyers after Apple made a successful claim through the World Intellectual Property Organization.
2. Apple watcher and stock market pro Brian White has made a bullish prediction that Apple stock will hit $1001 by the year’s end.
3 The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple is presently working with LG display in South Korea and Au Optronics in Taiwan. both companies supply screens.
4. Apple’s tablet market share dropped to 55 percent in the last quarter of 2011, motivating the company to enter the mini-tablet market now.
5. ln a July 4 article at Bloomberg.com, the writers claimed to have talked to Apple leakers who confirmed that the company will indeed release a mini-tablet in order to compete against Google, Amazon and Microsoft tablets.
Industry sources say that the new Apple tablet will measure about eight-inches diagonally. Apple’s most popular tablet is 10-inches. It’s an interesting development if for no other reason then Steve Jobs himself opposed a mini-tablet. Jobs had previously said that the seven-inch screen was too small to properly “express the software.” Jobs stressed that Apple was a software company and that software strategies came first.
He called the mini-tablet a “tweener,” meaning it was too big to be an iPhone but also too small to be a tablet. Jobs simply rejected that format. Another rumor making itself known is that the indium gallium zinc oxide display by Sharp will debut on the new mini iPad. It’s a brighter and thinner technology that should suit the smaller iPad well. Cunrently, Apple is holding about 62 percent of the tablet market.
The debut of the $199 Kindle during the 2011 holiday season deeply cut into that number and knocked Apple’s tablet share down to 55 percent.
Industry watchers say that this shocker may have motivated Apple to seriously consider offering a tablet now to compete in the mini—tablet market. The impending market for tablets could hit 347 million units in 2012 and more than double that number to 809 million units by 2017 according to a report in the Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report. Market watchers said that this report makes it clear why new players like GoogIe’s Nexus 7, priced at $199, are jumping into the market. Analysts are speculating that the new mini-iPad will cost about $250.
If Apple releases the mini-iPad, it would compete against Google’s Nexus 7 and Amazon’s Kindle Fire. both run on Google’s Android operating system. one analyst is speculating that a mini-iPad could cut into the sales of Apple’s larger tablet.
Apple doesn’t fear upending its own products if the company can be assured of dominating the tablet market, said Frank Gillett, who is a top analyst at Forrester Research, in an article at PC World. Apple doesn’t want to leave an opening for Android to grab market share. The company is not interested in sharing and wants the whole apple, Gillett said. Asian sources said that Apple told component suppliers to prepare for the mass production of new tablets, according to the Wall Street Journal.
It’s believed that Apple has been testing a prototype since February. Apple’s competitors realize that the best strategy to enter the tablet market is to sell a device in a market niche where Apple isn’t present, analysts said. Microsoft’s Surface tablet will be targeting consumers who want to use Windows software. Google and Kindle are presenting a smaller tablet at a cheaper price than the iPad. Kindle had a good measure of success using that strategy last year. Google took notice and launched the Nexus 7 last month. Apple, of course, saw that strategy, too, which is why rumors of a new mini tablet are becoming actual evidence.
Apple hints the release date of the new mini iPad 3 to be earlier than planned
How many times has it happened to you that your first indication that your home or office Wi-Fi network is down comes from the fact that your iPhone or iPad hasn’t picked up an email or instant message in a curiously long time? almost as many times as you have hopped on to a free Wi-Fi hotspot in your favorite coffee shop only to find out that it is so slow that it barely functions? To all of our relief, Apple heard our cries and made a few changes in iOS 6 to help ease our pain.
Now, with iOS 6 installed on you Wi-Fi and Cellular equipped iPhone or iPad the option exists to land your connection back on a cellular signal when Wi-Fi starts acting up –and back again once the issues clear up. Using the feature that Apple has called ‘Wi-Fi Plus Cellular’ there isn’t anymore waiting for ages to see if an e-mail arrives only to find out that Wi-Fi isn’t working anyway; now your critical applications will keep syncing regardless.
According to AppleInsider, an additional function of this new iOS feature is that “you’ll be able to tell your iPhone to automatically revert back to cellular data to keep your iCloud Documents, iTunes purchases, Passbook and Reading Lists up to date.”
This may also be a way to keep FaceTime calls from dropping under these circumstances, though this is difficult to predict with cellular carriers yet to weigh-in on how they will be supporting / charging for FaceTime usage over their networks.
Unless you are one of the lucky developers test-driving the iOS 6 beta, you will have to wait a while to enjoy this feature. for those that do have the new operating system installed already, you can find ‘Wi-Fi Plus Cellular’ under General->Cellular in the systems setting pane.
Apple to Add Auto Wi-Fi / Cellular Switching with iOS 6
BERLIN — A German court has dismissed an Apple (AAPL) lawsuit seeking to ban the sale of Motorola’s Xoom tablet computer throughout the European Union.
In its case, Cupertino-based Apple claimed the Motorola product infringed its intellectual property because its design was too similar to the iPad.
In its verdict Tuesday, the court in the western city of Duesseldorf also rejected a request by Google (GOOG)-owned Motorola to declare Apple’s so-called Community design rights for the iPad invalid.
Community design rights are meant to protect the distinctive appearance of industrial products.
Apple and Motorola have clashed repeatedly over intellectual property issues.
The companies have 30 days to appeal the verdict to a higher court.
Apple’s effort to ban Motorola tablets tossed in Germany
Apple used testimony from several expert witnesses Tuesday, including former Mac graphic artist guru Susan Kare, to emphasize to jurors that Samsung willfully copied its iPhone, iPad and iOS user interface designs. but Samsung’s counsel continued to chip away at Apple’s arguments by pointing out specific, undeniable design discrepancies between its products and Apple’s.
“I reached for an iPhone because I could see the screen, to make a point about the user interface, the graphics — and I was holding a Samsung phone,” Kare said in court Tuesday. “I usually think of myself as someone who’s pretty granular in looking at graphics, and I mistook one for the other. so I guess in addition to my formal analysis, I had the experience of being confused.”
Kare concluded that the Samsung Fascinate, Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S (i9000), Gem, Indulge, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, and Galaxy S Showcase smartphones all gave a visual impression that was “substantially the same” as the iPhone — and were in fact “confusingly similar” and “were beyond coincidental.” Samsung has been trying to impress upon the jury that no one really gets confused between Apple and Samsung products, so the fact that a UI expert admitted to it could be fairly damning.
Kare expressed that she thought there are viable alternative designs to those employed in the iPhone. “This is what I do all the time,” Kare told the nine-member jury. she designed icons for the Mac back in the ’80s, as well as Facebook gift icons in more recent years. “It’s what makes it fun.”
Could Samsung have, for instance, used triangular icons instead of square ones? “I wouldn’t agree [square icons are] a truism,” Kare said Tuesday. Unfortunately, Samsung attorney Charles Verhoeven quickly pointed out, in Kare’s earlier deposition testimony she said that triangles weren’t optimal because you can’t fit as many images on the screen.
Even so, one of Samsung’s continued tactics in the case is to get Apple’s witnesses to admit that when you look at individual details, there are significant differences between the iPhone and Samsung phones. but Kare said that she sees the parts that make a whole rather than “the ingredients that make a cookie.”
Further hurting Samsung’s case, a memo from the company’s head of mobile communications JK Shin shown to jurors Monday afternoon, stated that the iPhone caused a “crisis of design” within the Korean company. Court documents (pictured above left and to the right) show the uncanny similarity between some Samsung icons and Apple’s.
In a publicly released exhibit, Apple also detailed exactly how much in damages (.pdf) the company wants from Samsung for infringing on its various patents. The answer: more than $2.5 billion total.
The jury trial for Apple v. Samsung began last Monday. Apple claims Samsung is violating its design patents for the iPhone and iPad, as well as utility patents on UI features like the “bounce-back” effect when you reach the end of a list in iOS. Samsung claims Apple is infringing on its essential 3G patent holdings. The case, which just finished its fifth day of trial, is expected to last for at least two more weeks.
Apple Hammers In That Samsung’s Products, UI ‘Confusingly Similar’ to Its Own
Apple could be planning on refreshing its entire line of iDevices at the company’s fall event, adding new, miniaturized dock connectors, according to iMore.
For a while now, we’ve been expecting Apple to launch the sixth-gen iPhone in September or October, and recent reports have indicated that this new model could launch with a 19-pin (or even an eight-pin) dock connector. it is speculated that the move, which will render a lot of iDevice accessories redundant for sixth-gen iPhone-adopters – unless a suitable adapter launches – will be made in order to free-up important space inside the smartphone.
Now, iMore – citing reliable sources – claims that this new dock connector will make its way into Apple’s entire line of iDevices this September, including the anticipated iPad mini and the standard 9.7-inch iPad model already available. Of course, if such a tablet as the iPad mini becomes available later this year, it would make sense for the Cupertino, Calif. company to grace it with the small-size dock many are expecting to launch with the sixth-gen iPhone. but equally, a refreshed third-gen iPad (or even a fourth-gen model) has been suggested by a couple of sources.
Typically, Apple used its September event to talk about the company’s line of iPods. this year is said to be no different, with a sixth-geneneration iPod touch – that is said to mirror the sixth-gen iPhone in screen-size, processor power and internal specs – expected to be announced soon. if Apple indeed launches a small-size dock with its new iPhone, it wouldn’t surprise us if the iPod touch (along with the company’s other iPod devices) also sports the same 19- or eight-pin dock connector.
All in all, the only aspect of iMore’s report we’d consider to be somewhat unexpected would be the refreshed 9.7-inch iPad. Enough rumors have pointed towards the launch of an iPad mini, iPod refreshes (at the very least, iPod touch refreshes) are generally a given, and we’re all practically certain that Apple will launch its sixth-gen in the near future.
If a new, small-size dock connector is indeed on the cards, it would of course make sense for Apple to add it to its 9.7-inch iPad as soon as possible. The only question – if such a dock launches – is whether the company will wait until March, and for the launch of the fourth-gen iPad, before doing this.
Source: iMore
Apple To Refresh Entire Line Of iDevices Adding Mini-Dock At September Event?
“Apple built upon its strong March iPad launch and ended the quarter with its best-ever shipment total for the iPad, outrunning even the impressive shipment record it set in the fourth quarter of last year,” said Tom Mainelli, research director, Mobile Connected Devices.
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“The vast majority of consumers continue to favor the iPad over competitors, and Apple is seeing increasingly strong interest in the device from vertical markets-especially education. While iPad shipment totals are beginning to slow a bit in mature markets where the device saw early traction, growth in other regions is clearly more than making up the difference,” Mainelli added.
Apple wasn't the only company to experience solid growth in the second quarter. Four of the top five worldwide vendors saw their shipments increase year over year.
South Korean conglomerate Samsung, landed in the second place, shipped 2.4 million units, up from 1.1 million units a year ago, which accounted for market shares of 9.6 percent.
Amazon bounced back from a sluggish first quarter to post shipments of 1.2 million units with a market share of 5 percent. The company, which ships its fire tablet only in the U.S., entered the market in the fourth quarter of 2011.
The next in the list was ASUS, which shipped 855,454 units during the period, well above its total of 397,048 units a year ago. It was followed by Acer, whose year-over-year numbers declined by 38.7 percent. The company shipped 385,458 units this quarter, down from 629,222 units a year ago.
However, shipments of the well-received Google/ASUS co-branded Nexus 7 aren't reflected in these totals, as that product officially began shipping into the channel in the third quarter of 2012.
Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Media Tablet Tracker, August 2, 2012.
IDC believed that the so called tablet war is expected to heat up in the second half of 2012. according to Bob O'Donnell, program vice president, Clients and Displays, in addition to major products from Amazon and Apple, new devices like Microsoft Windows 8 and Windows RT-based tablets will further intensify the competition in the tablet space later this year.
“If anything, there's a real risk that people will have too many options from which to choose this holiday season. Consumers baffled by the differences between Amazon and Google versions of Android, or Windows 8 and Windows RT, may well default to market leader Apple. Or they may simply choose to remain on the sideline for another cycle,” said O'Donnell.
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