“Broadcom bagged Verizon in the latest twist to the ongoing patent tug-o-war with Qualcomm,” Scott Moritz reports for TheStreet.com.
“The Irvine, Calif., communications-chip maker says it has signed a licensing deal with Verizon Wireless — co-owned by Verizon and Vodafone — to allow previously banned 3G phones into the U.S.,” Moritz reports.
Moritz reports, “The deal calls for Verizon to give Broadcom $6 for every phone and wireless data card that has the disputed wireless technology that federal trade regulators banned. ‘We are pleased to have worked out an agreement with Broadcom to ensure continued delivery of new and innovative products to our customers,’ Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell C. McAdam said in a press release.”
Moritz reports, “The licensing deal is also good news for Motorola. Among the phones affected by the ban was the Razr 2, the new flagship phone that is expected to help Motorola win back sales it has lost to rivals like Nokia, Samsung, Research in Motion and Apple.
Full article here.
Desperate much, Verizon? That’s one (expensive) way around the ban, but the fact remains that Apple’s iPhone has no real competition. AT&T could cut the speed of EDGE in half tomorrow and we’d still never give up our iPhones! RAZR 2, pffft. The bloodbath is underway.
Guys, guys, guys. Remember how Slashdot peed all over the iPod? You are doing the same thing with the iPhone. Apple will crush you too. In other words, times change, but people still don’t learn. In the history of the universe, the one constant is human stupidity.
Regarding the “industrial strength” e-mail capabilities of Exchange, Groupwise, and Notes, I say whatever. Corporations were duped by these products. Don’t you realize that most of the world’s email is pushed through email servers like sendmail and Postfix? Those are industrial strength. The reason corporations went with Exchange, Groupwise, and Notes was because of their proprietary calendaring.
Postfix and and Courier IMAP is a far more impressive mail system than Exchange could ever want to be.
Having said that, I don’t expect to have an iPhone in the next several years or ever because of the limitations of the phone as well as its need for AT&T’s EDGE network. That is a joke. I’ll stick with my EVDO card for my MacBook Pro for surfing the net.
Thank you very much.
In the business world, calendaring is somewhat important.
Really.
EDGE is actually pretty good in most parts of South Florida but it sucks in Puerto Rico. Having said that…if you want to fly through websites even on a lousy edge signal simply go the wap website instead of the regular website. Example: wap.MLB.com instead of the regular website…
E-mail is very good and there are already third party solutions that offer the same benefits of push and ‘industrial’ that u can get via your scrapberry.
Yep in two years my iPhone will still be worth using whereas your scrapberry will be out in the scrap heap.
clearly u have not used iCal…I have been sending and accepting Exchange invites for years now…with people that don’t even realize I don’t have Exchange
@ @Brit: “Brit, what’s wrong with “you’re”? It is a contraction of “you are” and was used correctly by Jake.”
Yes, his first one was correct, but his second use of it in the same sentence – “you’re post is just empty FUD” – was not.
@infomercials,
wrong. your iPhone will be 2.5 G whereas everyone else will be using 3G, including my “scrapberry” and all the new-generation iPhone users.
pwnt.
MORE Blood – MORE bath!!
Qualcomm – it couldn’t happen to a nicer group of schiesters…
http://www.physorg.com/news104162779.html
Now it is Qualcomm’s TURN to cry!!!
Heeh…