On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:23:15 -0800, SMS ???• ?
<scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in
<477e0882$0$84241$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:

>"U.S. District Judge James Selna issued the ruling Monday, the latest in
>a series of legal victories Broadcom scored over Qualcomm last year
>related to rights to technology for cell phones. The three patented
>chips use WCDMA technology, a small but fast-growing part of the
>wireless market used mostly in American T-Mobile and AT&T phones.
>
>Selna ruled that Qualcomm can continue to sell other disputed chips in
>the United States until January 2009, but must pay royalties on those
>chips, which use a different technology called EVDO and are used on
>Verizon and Sprint networks in America. He also allowed Qualcomm to use
>a patented Broadcom walkie-talkie technology until January 2009."
>
>Broadcom and Qualcomm must be very far apart on settling. Reminds me of
>the whole RIM mess last year, but they settled eventually, as everyone
>predicted.

In fact the settlement was far outside of normal settlement territory,
and not what "everyone predicted".

>This whole patent dispute is one reason that W-CDMA didn't make it into
>the iPhone.

That last is even more patent nonsense. W-CDMA chips are readily
available from other sources. The primary real reasons is almost
certainly power consumption of the available chips.

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Best regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS:
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>