Two sparsely-buttoned large, touchscreen phones: the Apple iPhone, and the LG KE850 (which already won the International Forum Design Product Design Award for 2007). Separated at birth, or possible lawsuit number two for Apple? You decide.
Possible Laysuits:
1.) Cisco owns the "iPhone" name.
2.) LG has already created a touch screen phone
3.) multi-touch "zooming" has already been invented by: http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=j_han&flashEnabled=1&
6 comments:
hey this is wicked
but its still lg. or did things leak out from apple labs?
It seems they are different in sizes... lg is much smaller i think.
I would preffer lg for its size as a cellphone but iphone's gui is awesome.
Supposedly, Apple threatens its employees with their jobs if anything is leaked. Check out this article: http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/10/commentary/lewis_fortune_iphone.fortune/index.htm
i think that is fine. Employees must treat the company it works for as its own and respect its terms.
Apple bought the patents off Jeff Han for the multi touch. Not to mention they patented any and all names that could be potentially used or created since the inception of the first Imac By Steve Jobbs. So that puts two ouf of it. In the case of LG...i love LG, however LG is not and has not created a device that is generated based off an ipod, or has multi touch, along with the simple fact that, a new design that excedes the technological advancements of the first one is different. Fact wins over hear-say, and preferred opinion...That is the name of the design business game. As far as the point made by 'onesaint', leaking information about a company is not only a against the law, but it is a federal regulation of confideniality that is being breached when a person(s) divulges information or insight into the development of a company they work for, without consent. If the company is obviously falsifying their product/service or simply breaking the law, then it is their duty to alert the authorities.
If Coke-Cola hadn't been so secretive about their product, do you think it would still be as powerfull an icon as it is today if it everyone knew what the recipe was!
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