U.S. International Trade Commission rules against HTC, may mean problems for other Android device producers

The United States International Trade Commission has ruled against HTC and determined they have infringed on a couple of patents that may affect all Android devices.

The patents HTC was found to have violated are 5,946,647, “System and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data” and 6,343,263, “Real-time signal processing system for serially transmitted data.”

An in-depth analysis by Mueller of the specific patent claims HTC has been found guilty of violating suggests that the infringing technologies are part of the Android architecture, rather than unique enhancements made by HTC. As such, competing Android vendors such as Motorola and Samsung may also be at risk.

Apple’s ’643 patent appears to relate directly to the iPhone’s practice of detecting contact information, such as phone numbers and email addresses, and forming a link that, when clicked, performs contextualized actions. Documents submitted by Apple accuse HTC of violating this patent through Android’s “Linkify” functionality.

Source: ITC ruling against HTC may spell trouble for other Android makers

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How to Get Android Like Display on your iOS Device [Jailbreak Required]

You might prefer Android devices over the iOS device just because of the display (where all your apps are in one place), but you are stuck with iPhone display then we have a good news for you. Now you can get Android like display on your iOS device easily. AndroidLoader is an app which lets you view all your apps in one place. In short, if you install this app you would get Android like touch and feel on your iOS based device.

You may also want to use Android lock screen on your iOS device.

This app requires a jailbroken device. If you haven’t yet jailbroken your device then you should get familiar with jailbreaking your iPhone device with snowbreeze or jailbreaking using Redsnow.

This app is not available for iPad yet, primarily due to large display of iPad (more apps mean more the load on the device). You can also make your own skin too. Check out the video below to see the details of the features of this app.

This app is available at Cydia from the ModMyi Repository and will cost you only $2.99. This app costs much less than getting an Android device.  If you are already using this app do let us know about your experience.

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And The Winner Of The 1.5 Ghz Qualcomm Android Developer Device Is…

To say that our latest contest was a success would be… a bit of an understatement. Most of our giveaways pull in a few hundred entries, or maybe a bit over a thousand. Between comments here on MobileCrunch, Facebook passphrase hunters, and those who took the time to dig up all of the eggs we hid around the site, our giveaway of the insanely awesome 1.5 Ghz Android Developer Device from Qualcomm managed to pull in many, many times that.

Unfortunately, amongst the many thousands of entries we received, there can only be one winner. After hours of churnin’ away after the contest closed last night, our handy-dandy contest robots (which may or may not just be Greg with a bunch of PHP scripts and and a massive pot of coffee) have drawn a winner. And the winner is…

Paul M. Of Connecticut! (Note: The winning Paul M. has already been contacted; if you also happen to be a Paul M. from Connecticut but weren’t contacted, we still love you, but you’re not a winner this time.)

Huge thanks to everyone who entered (we hope you all had fun!) and a mega-huge thanks to Qualcomm and Bsquare for providing the device.

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