Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division

Re:Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division by CompleteMoron on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @04:37PM (#7147134)

I would wager that it means a ton of these patents arent useful anymore.. the stuff coming out of google X will pretty much make these old patents kinda uselesss.

Even the very nature of the cell phone is rapidly changing and Google Glass is a useless halfstep with contacts coming right around the corner which will be the real hardware killer.

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Re:Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division by objclxt on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @04:51PM (#7147267)

...a lot of Motorola's patents are related to underlying voice and networking technologies. Unless Google X is proposing to come out with a replacement for GSM (...and it's not) that stuff isn't changing.

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Re:Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division by CompleteMoron on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @05:32PM (#7147589)

GSM is over by 2017/2018 for carriers stateside. Where will the patents for these topologies and compression schemes be then? That is proverbially around the corner corporately.

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Re:Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division by Aloha on Thursday January 30, 2014 @01:21AM (#7149325)

I think your estimates are a bit optimistic - that aside - the GSM RAN will be going away, not the GSM core - that lives on for UMTS and LTE.

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