Re:Apple Files Patent Suit Against Samsung Over Galaxy Line ...
by sukuriant on Monday April 18, 2011 @09:48PM
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It's not the finger-sized icons that are the issue. What makes it very similar to the iPhone are:
* the general smooth, rectangular shape of the phone, including a large, center button below the screen
* a color-coded section of four buttons at the bottom of the screen that take up the whole space and include "phone", icon on the left-most side.
* a speaker in a thin-rectangular shape above the screen.
There are a great number of small differences between them, but they are very, very similar. Compare the new Samsung phone with a regular Android UI (e.g. http://www.techwhizz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Android-... (from http://www.techwhizz.com/feel-android-2-3-gingerbread-cyanog... ) and notice that, while the two user interfaces accomplish similar things and both use large buttons, the Samsung UI is incredibly and inappropriately close to the iPhone's, especially if Apple has made a point of claiming that precise format as their own.
* a color-coded section of four buttons at the bottom of the screen that take up the whole space and include "phone", icon on the left-most side.
* a speaker in a thin-rectangular shape above the screen.
There are a great number of small differences between them, but they are very, very similar. Compare the new Samsung phone with a regular Android UI (e.g. http://www.techwhizz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Android-... (from http://www.techwhizz.com/feel-android-2-3-gingerbread-cyanog... ) and notice that, while the two user interfaces accomplish similar things and both use large buttons, the Samsung UI is incredibly and inappropriately close to the iPhone's, especially if Apple has made a point of claiming that precise format as their own.