HTC loses S3 patents leverage, as ITC clears Apple of patent infringing

Apple has scored a point in their ongoing court match against HTC. The US International Trade Commission has ruled that the Cupertino-based company doesn’t infringe any of the HTC-owned patents.

Earlier, ITC declared that Apple was, in fact, violating some of the patents that HTC acquired with its purchase of S3 Graphics. However, it was OS X, rather than iOS, which was found in the wrong and Apple has obviously done enough to fix that. By acquiring S3 graphics HTC was hoping it could use the graphics company patent portfolio as a leverage to cut a deal with Apple.

The HTC general counsel Grace Lei said that the company was disappointed by the decision and that an appeal is on the cards.

We are also still expecting the ITC to confirm if HTC has been infringing some of the Apple patents. The iPhone manufacturer has filed a case on its own saying that the HTC Sense uses technology that’s its property.

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HTC Sensation XL dares enter our battery life trial, lives to tell the story [TEST]

We’ve got the battery tests results of yet another smartphone to share with you. The HTC Sensation XL will try and protect the honor of the company after the rather disappointing performance of the HTC Radar yesterday.

If you are just looking at the specs, you wouldn’t back the Sensation XL to do too greatly. A 1600 mAh battery and a 4.7″ LCD seemingly put the XL at a disadvantage, but maybe it has an ace up its sleeves.

That turned out to be just the case, as the Sensation XL put out a brilliant performance in our first test – 3G talk time. 9:30 hours passed before the HTC Sensation XL finally switched off – an achievement far better than even what its own specs would lead you to expect.

We had lower hopes for the HTC Sensation XL performance in our browser test as the screen does come into play here, but the droid did quite fine. It survived for 5 hours and 20 minutes of the intensive browsing that our automated script simulates – reloading a page every ten seconds.

There are no flash elements on the tested web pages, the display brightness is set to 50% and we use a Wireless N connection, with the router placed a few meters away from the tested phones, so we are getting full bars on every one of them.

We concluded the round of individual tests with video playback, but unfortunately the Sensation XL failed to keep its impressive performance here. The smartphone lost 90% of its battery (this test concludes at that point) in just 6 hours and 12 minutes – barely enough to lift it off the bottom.

We use an SD video for this and have the screen brightness set to 50% and all radios switched off.

As usual we conclude with the performance of the smartphone in the most important of them tests – the overall usage one. Luckily the stand-by of the Sensation XL was much more efficient than that of the Radar and it got an endurance rating of 40h, which is among the better scores we have seen. This suggests that you’d need to charge this one every 40 hours if you do one hours of each of the three activities described above per day.

2.5GHz quad core HTC Zeta leaked online

The HTC Zeta, complete with Android 4.0, a 2.5GHz quad-core CPU and 4.3-inch 720p display, has leaked online

The HTC Zeta has been leaked online – and what a phone it is. We’re talking Android 4.0, a 4.3-inch 720p display and, best of all, a 2.5GHz quad-core CPU. Pick your jaw up off the floor and read on.
The scoop comes via Engadget, which reports that Zeta – most likely a codename – has a much faster CPU at 2.5GHz than last week’s other HTC leak, the Edge.

According to the source, the uniquely shaped HTC Zeta ‘will come with Ice Cream Sandwich pre-installed with Sense UI (version 4.0 wasn’t specified, but we’d be surprised to see it any lower on an ICS device) and have 32GB of internal storage space, an 1,830mAh battery, Beats Audio, Bluetooth 4.0, an 8-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash, 1080p video capture and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing cam.’
Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Well that may well be the case. You see, HTC has yet to even confirm the Edge, which means this device could be a hoax or, most likely, just a conceptual handset – the image does look rather a lot like PC-generated render.
In terms of dimensions, the Zeta is said to measure 109.8×60.9×9.8mm and weight in at 146g – 5g lighter than the Sensation XE.

It also looks like HTC has finally started to shake things up in its design department. The Zeta looks very different from what we’ve seem to date from the Taiwanese manufacturer.
Nonetheless, we’ve seen plenty of HTC leaks that turned into real handsets within a couple of months of them first showing up online, anyone remember the HTC Pyramid? That turned out to be the Sensation in the end.
There’s no word on a release date as yet nor is there any details regarding pricing. But judging by how impressive the spec is, we’d say what you’re looking at here is HTC’s up-and-coming flagship device for Q1 or Q2 of 2012.
Expect to see more of this handset, along with the Edge, at Mobile World Congress 2012, if it actually exists.


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